Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Surveillance programme to build and enhance the surveillance platform to detect potential instances of market misconduct, market manipulation and market abuse. The Bank met its commitment to FCA (Financial Conduct Authority, FCA) to meet Market Abuse Regulation ("MAR") requirements for critical data sources in September 2017. Following that, subsequent projects were initiated to further enhance, expand and complement the current coverage of the automated surveillance platform.
• A key requirement for this position is facing off to senior stakeholders in CFCC teams/ FM teams in the Functions/Frontline and manage projects related to regulatory/audit changes requiring system changes.
• The Risk and Compliance team is responsible for defining and driving discretionary and regulatory changes across various Compliance/Risk processes/systems.
• The team plays a pivotal role in providing simple solutions, delivering quality service and realising resource and budget efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the projects within the Surveillance program including MAR , Information Barriers and PvB suitability.
• Actively manage, maintain and own the compliance Book of Work.
• Facilitate prioritisation of the BoW requirements through Change Governance Committees.
• Construct and socialise delivery plans that meet the agreed scope, cost and timelines.
• Responsible to review functional specification documents developed by technology team
• Work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, across all seniority levels, to ensure cross workstream impacts of change are identified and understood to align delivery efforts and timelines.
• Closely collaborate with the Scrum Master to coordinate sprint management activities, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritisation, capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Manage and coordinate testing of changes and functionality, including creation of test plans, test strategy documents, preparation of test cases, test case execution, defect management and test closure reports.
• Be an integral part of risk and compliance Change function to enable efficient management and implementation of Risk and compliance changes

Regulatory & 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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\'s Conduct Principles. Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Technology Partners from compliance and FM
• Business Process Owners from compliance and FM
• Compliance assurance teams
• PMO

Our Ideal Candidate

• High level knowledge of project management is preferred
• 6+ Years of experience in FM / Compliance / Market abuse regulation is preferred.
• Strong communication skills, ability to tailor messages to the audience and influence stakeholders.
• Possess a driven, can-do attitude and proactive in stakeholder engagement.
• Comfortable in working with multiple stakeholders\' teams and functions.
• Strong preference for functional knowledge within Surveillance / FM / MAR domain.
• Experience in agile project methodologies as product owner
• Ability to manage senior stakeholders and run the BOW prioritization meetings
• Good communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Ability to identify stakeholders and ensure appropriate engagement.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting or Risk Management
• Proven track-record of managing and delivering change in a Regulatory project environment
• Excellent stakeholder management experience across multiple streams - business users, technology, finance, data
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct manner to senior management
• Ability and experience of managing delivery in an Agile project environment
• Strong analytical and conceptualisation skills, with a view to adopting or establishing industry best practices
• Focused and organised, with ability to prioritise and deliver effectively

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Product ownership/ Project management
• FM product knowledge
• Stakeholder management
• Surveillance experience
• Risk management principles
• Communication

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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