Lead_Markets Onboarding Regulatory Implementation _West

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking a strategic leader for the role of Lead – Markets Onboarding Regulatory Implementation. In this pivotal position, you'll design and implement regulatory onboarding frameworks, working with global stakeholders to ensure compliance across diverse jurisdictions. Join us to shape our response to evolving regulations while providing seamless client onboarding experiences.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Inclusive and values-driven organization

Time-off including annual leave and sabbatical

Qualifications

• Proven experience in regulatory implementation or change management projects.
• Vast experience in regulatory onboarding and Markets operations.
• Exposure to Agile delivery and project ownership is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of regulatory onboarding processes globally.
• Coordinate onboarding readiness to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Identify and mitigate risks in onboarding processes.

Skills

Strong communicator

Analytical thinker

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Finance, Law, or Business

Job description

Job Description

Are you passionate about regulatory change and its impact on global markets? We're looking for an experienced and strategic leader to join our team as Lead – Markets Onboarding Regulatory Implementation (West).

In this pivotal role, you’ll lead the design and implementation of regulatory onboarding frameworks across a broad range of jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. You'll partner with global stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, Front Office, Operations, and Technology to embed regulatory controls into the client onboarding lifecycle — ensuring our Markets clients are fully compliant and operationally ready.

This is your opportunity to shape how we respond to ever-evolving regulations and deliver seamless, compliant client onboarding experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Execution

• Lead end-to-end implementation of regulatory onboarding processes across country and global requirements (e.g. Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MiFID, MAS, ASIC).
• Translate complex regulatory obligations into practical onboarding workflows, tools, and procedures.
• Integrate controls into due diligence, client risk classification, documentation, and data capture.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a strategic partner across the business, risk, technology, onboarding, and operational teams.
• Coordinate onboarding readiness across all first-line functions, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Facilitate communication and training for change initiatives and regulatory rollouts.

Process & Project Management

• Lead regulatory change initiatives from planning through delivery.
• Collaborate with global teams to ensure process consistency, risk controls, and regulatory traceability.
• Review user stories and system requirements to ensure business and compliance objectives are met.

Risk & Governance

• Identify and mitigate operational and regulatory risks in onboarding processes.
• Approve Change Risk Assessments and maintain accurate implementation documentation.
• Champion best practices, process improvements, and digital transformation.

Skills and Qualifications Skills

• Deep understanding of global regulatory requirements and client onboarding in financial markets
• Proven experience leading regulatory implementation or change management projects
• Strong communicator with the ability to explain complex regulatory requirements to diverse stakeholders
• Skilled in stakeholder management, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration
• Analytical thinker with the ability to problem-solve and drive innovation
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, regulated environment

Qualifications

• Degree qualified, ideally in Finance, Law, Business, or a related discipline
• Vast experience in regulatory implementation, onboarding, or Markets operations
• Hands-on knowledge of Markets products and client lifecycle processes
• Exposure to Agile delivery and business project ownership is a plus
• Fluent English required; other languages an advantage

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.

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