Head, Markets Onboarding RegDue Diligence & Contract Negotiation(UK, Singapore)

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading international bank as the Head of Markets Onboarding, focusing on regulatory diligence and client onboarding strategies. You will lead a global team, ensuring compliance with financial regulations while driving operational efficiency and transformation initiatives. Ideal candidates will possess extensive regulatory expertise and strong leadership skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Time-off for leave and volunteering

Continuous learning opportunities

Inclusive culture and diversity support

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of regulatory frameworks in financial markets (e.g., CFTC, EMIR).
• Experience managing onboarding processes and legal documentation.
• Ability to lead large, diverse teams and drive transformations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement global regulatory onboarding framework.
• Oversee lifecycle of client due diligence and trading documentation.
• Lead initiatives to digitize onboarding workflows.

Skills

Regulatory due diligence

Client management

Strategic thinking

Process automation

Problem-solving

Effective communication

Inclusive leadership

Job description

Job Description

Are you passionate about regulatory excellence, client experience, and operational transformation? Join us as Head of Markets Onboarding – Regulatory Due Diligence & Contract Negotiation, where you will lead the global strategy and execution for regulatory onboarding, due diligence, and trading documentation. You will be the key driver of change at the intersection of regulation, legal risk, and client lifecycle management – ensuring our processes are scalable, efficient, compliant, and client-centric.

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Markets Business & Client Solutions, you will oversee a high-performing global team and work with stakeholders across legal, compliance, sales, technology, and operations to deliver seamless onboarding experiences and ensure we stay ahead of global financial regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and lead the global regulatory onboarding framework across all Markets business lines.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of client due diligence and trading documentation (e.g., ISDA, CSA).
• Ensure compliance with key global regulations (e.g., MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, UMR).
• Lead transformation initiatives to digitise and automate onboarding and contract workflows.
• Act as the strategic owner of regulatory onboarding platforms and contract lifecycle tools.
• Serve as governance lead for onboarding policies, contract standards, and audit readiness.
• Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, Front Office, and Tech to align and execute roadmap.
• Represent the organisation in industry forums and regulatory working groups.
• Build, develop, and lead global teams with a focus on talent growth and inclusivity.
• Drive a culture of risk awareness, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Skills

• Deep knowledge of regulatory due diligence in financial markets (e.g., CFTC, EMIR, SFTR).
• Proven experience managing onboarding and legal documentation for institutional clients.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on ability to drive transformation and process automation.
• Skilled at building strong partnerships across diverse global teams and stakeholders.
• Effective communicator and influencer – able to translate complex requirements clearly.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and focus on commercial, risk, and client outcomes.
• Inclusive leader with experience managing large, multi-location teams.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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 thingand 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
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.