Job Description

Job: Risk
Primary Location: Asia-Singapore
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 22/Jun/2022, 4:02:20 AM
Unposting Date: 22/Jul/2022, 1:29:00 PM


The Role Responsibilities
Risk Management

• Manage risk exposures of Funds portfolio. Provide early warning and identify deteriorating credits. Manage exposure down as required.
• Ensure risk identification, measurement, reporting, and modelling capabilities are objective, consistent, and compliant with applicable regulations
• Ensure that material risk exposures and related issues are reported to the SCO Funds Risk
• Ensuring that the quality of Business Credit Applications (BCAs) meets Group standards, particularly with regards to the completeness and depth of risk analysis.
• Approving breaches of Portfolio Guidelines / Underwriting Guidelines, to the extent permitted under Credit Policy / Portfolio Guidelines.
• Ensuring timely submission and accuracy of credit portfolio data to the relevant stakeholder
• Monitoring compliance with Credit Policy and Portfolio Guidelines / Underwriting Guidelines periodically and reviewing any divergence thereof with the SCO Funds Risk
• Ensure EAR process is adhered to. Assist relationship managers in identification and managing up or out of accounts exhibiting signs of deterioration and assist Group Special Assets Management, where appropriate, in managing accounts to maximise recoveries and minimise losses.
• Initiate stress tests as required by internal and external factors and review results and assess their implications
• Uphold the integrity of risk/return decisions, by challenging business to demonstrate that risk origination and control decisions are properly informed and consistent with strategy
• Continuously improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of Credit Control and Reporting with regards to Funds, Asset Backed Securities
• Ensure effective management of operational risks with respect to Funds Risk management functions and compliance with applicable internal policies, and external laws and regulations
• Ensure appropriate judgement is applied in the discharge of risk authorities assigned to the jobholder
• Maintain a good understanding of the requirements of key external stakeholders in respect of risk management and ensure these are well understood internally and reflected in internal procedures
• Participate in key committees in the absence of the Global Head of Funds Risk in SCO Funds Risk Asia capacity.
• Ensure first line process owners understand and accept their risk management responsibilities
• Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealings with regulators in the absence of the SCO Funds Risk Asia.

Governance

• Implement the overall Risk Management Framework and Global Underwriting Guidelines for Funds and oversee their effective application.
• In the absence of the SCO Funds Risk Asia, attend the Risk Committee, Credit Issues Forum, and Underwriting Committee to provide input to the committees on arising risk issues and new policies and processes as required.
• Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealings with regulators and auditors.
• In the SCO Funds Risk Asia, absence, attend all risk management and controls committees, as applicable.

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.
• Assist the SCO Funds Risk Asia, to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Operation of Financial Markets; Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealings with Local Regulators.

Key Stakeholders Internal

• Head(s) of CCR, Global and regional
• Head Credit Control and Reporting
• In Country FI CIB Heads
• FM Sales and Trading
• Legal and Compliance
• Market Risk & Credit Exposure Management
• In Country SCO's / CCO
• Chief Credit Officer, Financial Institutions
• Regional Chief Credit Officer
• Regional Chief Risk Officer

External:

• Executives (including equivalent CRM Units) of clients
• Key Corporate and Institutional relationships in country
• Members of the legal professions
• Directors/key contacts in the business community
• Accountants/Consultants
• Local governance bodies

Other Responsibilities

• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Market knowledge: 10+ years of experience at the highest level in the banking industry, including demonstrated success in a similar role.
• Business strategy and model: sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awakened and sensitivity.
• Risk management and control: demonstrated track record in successful management and ability to manage risk in geographically dispersed and highly varied product base.
• Regulatory framework and requirement: awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the firm operates.
• Non-technical skills: significant relationship management experience - with external stakeholder at senior levels.
• Banking training:
  • Role specific training which are mandatory and developmental
  • Risk management framework
  • Core credit curriculum
  • Financial Institutions Credit Curriculum
  • Other training as deemed mandatory by the bank and updated on a periodic basis.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• C&I Credit Risk
• Trading product knowledge: Derivatives and repo
• Client due diligence preferable with hedge funds and private equity funds
• Legal documentation knowledge: ISDA/CSA, GMRA

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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