Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

This role will provide leadership towards the Reputational and Sustainability Risk (RSR) agenda and in particular provide key support on identification and assessment of RSR risks across Clients, Transactions, and Strategic Coverage decisions.

Responsibilities

The Director, Reputational and Sustainability Risk, ERM will:

• Providing and/or coordinating training to key stakeholders across the regions.
• Contributing to the development of reputational and sustainability risk themes and watch factors based on client review committee escalations, transaction reviews and review of external stakeholder concerns.
• Assisting Case Management Team Lead on ad-hoc initiatives as required
• Providing support to other Case Officers on case escalations and committee papers as needed
• Proactively identify areas of risk to be assessed in client relationships and within sensitive sectors.
• Represent RSR as a quorum and voting member of Client Review Committees \xe2\x80\x93 provide RSR subject matter expertise and challenge
• Identify and evaluate ESG trends and policy developments that may impact on risk assessments

Perform reputational risk assessments on transactions and clients and follow-through on these until closure as necessary. This involves:

• Robust assessment of reputational and sustainability risk controls
• Oversight and challenge on first line activity
• Identifying mitigations to gain comfort on risks
• Preparing and reviewing committee papers
• Summarizing key risks and trends as part of Case MI/Reporting

Strategy

• Support the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Three Pillars particular Sustainability

Business

• CCIB and CPBB

Processes

• Reputational and Sustainability Risk Processes

People & Talent

• Help to build the appropriate culture and values. Work collaboratively with all relevant partners.
• Embed the Group\xe2\x80\x99s values and code of conduct in Reputational and Sustainability Risk.
• Ensure that material risk exposures and related issues are reported to the responsible risk governance committees.

Risk Management

• Uphold the integrity of risk/return decisions, by challenging business to demonstrate that risk origination and control decisions are properly informed and consistent with the reputational and sustainability risk strategy and risk appetite. Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees. Where required, act as the second-line for risk areas aligned to the Reputational and Sustainability Risk RTF and Policy. Review and challenge Standard generation and updates and review control environment for weakness.

Governance

• Provide support across Reputational and Sustainability Risk, ensuring compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. Embed the Group\xe2\x80\x99s values and code of conduct in Reputational and Sustainability Risk. Ensure that material risk exposures and related issues are reported to the responsible risk governance committees.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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 the RSR, ERM team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles. Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Reputational and Sustainability Risk
• Environmental and Social Risk Management Team
• Climate Risk Team
• Sustainable Finance Team
• Sustainability Strategy
• Members of Regional Risk Committee
• Country Heads
• Business Heads
• Members of the ERM management team
• Regional and Country CROs
• Global Account Managers
• Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values across Reputational and Sustainability Risk

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ Years of experience working in financial services, preferably in reputational and sustainability risk management
• Experience in assessing risk and making decisions on clients and transactions
• Background in ESG or Sustainable Finance with a range of experience across different functions and/or fields
• Experience in developing or implementing risk management frameworks
• Strong Background in audit / investigative work / risk governance / transaction monitoring
• Experience in writing and reviewing formal papers for senior Committees
• Experience working in a financial services institution
• Knowledge of financial and non-financial risks and trends.
• Strong creativity and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent inter-personal skills; comfortable in building relationships at senior levels and across teams
• Confident self-motivated person with a high level of drive and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment whilst managing multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• This is a 12 Months fixed time contract role
• Bachelor Degree in any discipline, preferably in Finance, Business, Commerce/ ESG-related

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Experience in reputational and sustainability risk management;
• Experience in assessing risk and making decisions on clients and transactions
• Background in ESG or Sustainable Finance with a range of experience across different functions and/or fields
• Experience in developing or implementing risk management frameworks

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 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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