Associate Manager

Standard Chartered India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Unmind wellbeing platform

Learning and development

Job summary

Standard Chartered India is seeking a risk management professional to lead the identification, assessment and mitigation of risk across the group and country. You will oversee daily risk activities, build Risk MI reporting, and coordinate submissions with multiple stakeholders, ensuring governance and accuracy.

The role emphasizes collaboration with GFS units, governance adherence, and deployment of automated techniques to scale risk processes while maintaining high data quality and timely risk

Qualifications

• Graduate or Postgraduate
• Minimum 5 Years of experience Risk management.
• Strong coordination/organizational skills. Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Expertise in M7/ KCI/CST controls checks

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks to the Group/Country; manage day-to-day risk management activities including Risk MI Reporting and Submissions.

Skills

Risk management understanding

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

KCI/CST controls understanding

M7 usage

Coordination skills

Education

Graduate or Postgraduate

Tools

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

M7

Job description

• Ensuring timely completion of KCI/CST control checks and submission of RRA
• Responsible for preparing Monthly MI dashboard and discussion with Key stakeholders
• Collaborate with various GFS units for collating and submitting Risk Forums inputs
• Preparation and Submission of RRA in M7

Job Summary

• Ensuring timely completion of KCI/CST control checks and submission of RRA
• Responsible for preparing Monthly MI dashboard and discussion with Key stakeholders
• Collaborate with various GFS units for collating and submitting Risk Forums inputs
• Preparation and Submission of RRA in M7

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group/Country. Managing day to day activities related to Risk management including Risk MI Reporting and Submissions etc.,

Strategy

Operations Risk Management - Leading the team to achieve the below

• ORF Testing team standardizing the process across countries,
• Bringing out themes to be tabled at Group Finance FORC,
• Ensure compliance to Governance requirements for migrations
• Quality assurance review on the testing,
• Embedding Computer Assisted Audit techniques / Automation thereby bringing in scale

Business/Processes

Performance of testing (CST /KCI)

• Collation and gathering of evidence
• Data quality assurance of inputs
• Sampling as per the CST KCI definition in line with Potential failure and Control descriptions
• Preparation of data collection template to summarize results
• Highlight the relevant gaps with respect to Policy/Procedure/Process documents focusing on end to end process
• Review the current KCI/CST checks and highlight to Process owner/ Group OR to revise the control checks

People & Talent

• Bringing out themes to be tabled at Group Finance FORC,
• Ensure compliance to Governance requirements for migrations
• Quality assurance review on the testing,
• Embedding Computer Assisted Audit techniques / Automation thereby bringing in scale.

Risk Management

• Developing New CST/KCI
• Evaluating Process universe based on the changes in the process
• Evaluating Gross Risk
• Based on identified causes/controls or changes in process, defining new CST/KCI

Risk Awareness

• Ensure continuous efforts to increase Operational Risk Awareness across units
• Identify gaps and arrange for periodic training on compliance and OR for staff of the Business Unit.

Governance

• Track open items from Residual risk acceptance and report to governance forums when due
• Periodically review applicability of CST /KCI, appropriateness of sampling methodology and sample size and work with Global process owners
• Single point of contact for ORF related queries around ORF for the country
• Update EORP from time to time on account of change in underlying processes and controls and seek approval from Country process owner & OR
• Perform and maintain a sample coverage document

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 India / GFS Unit / GSF function/GFORP Process 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, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Country Business leads, FCs, CFOs, Leadership Team in GFS, Group Finance Ops Risk

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in India /GFS unit / GFORP Process team]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Skills And Experience

• Understanding of Risk Management
• Finance – Functional understanding
• MS Power point
• MS Excel
• Understanding on KCI/CST controls
• Usage of M7

Qualififcations

• Graduate or Postgraduate
• Minimum 5 Years of experience Risk management.
• Strong coordination/organizational skills. Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Expertise in M7/ KCI/CST controls checks

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 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
• 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-off including 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 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.