Job Description

Job: Compliance
Primary Location: Asia-Singapore-Singapore
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 14/Aug/2022, 11:41:32 PM
Unposting Date: 14/Sep/2022, 5:59:00 PM

Role Responsibilities
Job Purpose You will help drive the Bank’s regulatory agenda and collaborate with colleagues across the Bank to support our strategic direction and growth aspirations. You will do this by focusing on regulatory policy changes that will materially impact SCB. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in

• helping to design and manage regulatory engagement initiatives
• understanding regulatory institutions and activities in South East Asia
• communication - both verbal and written. A high degree of fluency on regulatory issues facing a global Bank and how financial services will be important. The role holder will work on

External Engagement

• Support the design, implementation and development of an external engagement strategy with the key regulatory policy community, leveraging internal stakeholders and drawing on the wider 'bench' of SCB experts. Represent Standard Chartered externally on regulatory policy issues as needed. Help build the Bank’s relationships with Asian regulatory policymakers.

GPRA sits within Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance (CFCC), whose vision is Partnering to drive the right outcomes for clients and communities. GPRA works with internal and external stakeholders to drive the alignment of the Bank’s strategy and global public policy, regulatory and supervisory objectives. We are organised into four teams Policy Analysis

• Identifies, analyses and helps position around developing policy change.

Regulatory Liaison

• The Bank’s key intermediary to facilitate effective supervisory engagement.

Government Affairs

• Designs, implements, and manages the Bank’s strategic engagement with policymakers and other external stakeholders.

Regulatory Affairs

• Design, implements, and manages the Bank’s strategic engagement with regulatory policy makers and related external stakeholders.

Regulatory Policy Analysis

• Work closely with GPRA colleagues to ensure that the Bank has an integrated view of Asian regulatory policymaking environment as they intersect with other global policy centres. Provide timely and insightful assessment of regulatory policy developments in Asia.

Position Development

• Work closely with business leads to prepare the Bank’s internal and external positions vis-à-vis emerging regulatory policy issues. This includes leading on drafting consultation responses.

Impactful Communication

• Produce briefings, presentations, speeches for Group senior management of the highest quality and at short notice.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Support Group Regulatory Affairs to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Live the commitments of our ‘Here for good brand’ promise, acting as a role-model for others.

People and Talent

• Promote the culture and practice of compliance with compliance standards (including conducting business within regulatory requirements and to high ethical standards) within the Bank and embed a ‘Here for good’ culture and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Ability to think outside the box and inspire colleagues to collaborate across GPRA and the broader Bank and deliver on a common purpose.
• Identify opportunities for the team to use technology to improve its analytical capabilities and develop new communication formats.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of experience of regulatory issues in either an international bank, a regulatory body, consultancy or law firm.
• Thorough understanding of the regulatory policy-making process in Asia.
• Strong ability to deploy skills into unfamiliar areas of regulation and get up to speed quickly.
• Demonstrate maturity and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple teams and jurisdictions to achieve results.
• Operate effectively with limited supervision and self-driven.
• Excellent writing, presenting, and briefing skills required.
• Demonstrate leadership and ability to engage with senior internal and external stakeholders effectively.
• Language skills relevant to the Bank’s operating markets is highly desirable.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Regulatory Environment - Financial Services
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Manage Change
• Effective Communications
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Industry Knowledge

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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