Manager, Risk Management - AI(India/ Malaysia)

Standard Chartered Bank; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Parental leave (20 weeks)

Wellbeing program Unmind

Job summary

Standard Chartered plc is seeking a Manager, Risk Management - AI to strengthen AI risk controls across technology, cyber, data/privacy, and regulatory domains in India and Malaysia. You will partner with risk owners to embed AI risk considerations into BAU and governance processes.

You'll drive RCSA readiness, control gap analysis, MI/KRI reporting, and audit responses, while evolving AI risk practices across the bank's risk management framework.

Qualifications

• Experience in AI risk management within a large, regulated banking environment.
• Ability to document AI-related risks, controls, and evidence for governance bodies.
• Experience contributing to RCSA readiness and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support AI-amplified risk discovery and control uplift tracking.
• Document risk impacts, controls, and issues for AI initiatives.
• Prepare governance materials and committee documentation on AI risks.
• Maintain evidence packs and logs for AI risk activities.
• Support audit, regulatory, and RFI responses related to AI risks.

Skills

AI Risk

Technology Risk

Cybersecurity Risk

Compliance Risk

RCSA

IT Standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Manager, Risk Management - AI(India/ Malaysia)

Job Details

Requisition Number: 65458
Job Location: Bangalore, IND | Kuala Lumpur, MYS
Global Grade: Band 5
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 03/11/2026
Posting End Date: 17/11/2026

Job Summary

This role could be based in India and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

• The role is responsible for supporting, coordinating, and strengthening the Bank’s control environment for AI-amplified risks across key risk domains, including Technology, Cyber, Data & Privacy, Compliance & Conduct, Operational Risk, and Third-Party & Concentration Risk. The objective is to ensure that AI-enabled products, platforms, processes, tools, and ways of working are assessed, governed, monitored, and controlled in line with the Bank’s risk appetite, Group policies and standards, applicable AI requirements, regulatory expectations and external obligations.
• The role operates as a key member of the Risk Management – AI function within the Technology and Operations (T&O) division, and works in close partnership with stakeholders across existing risk domains, First Line process and control owners, and central AI Governance teams. The role is focused on ensuring AI risk considerations are embedded into existing risk management processes and control environments and is accountable for driving execution across assigned domains. This includes supporting maintaining trackers, coordinating workstream activities, preparing governance materials, collecting evidence, supporting control gap analysis, maintaining issue and action logs, assisting with RCSA readiness, supporting MI / KRI / KPI production, and coordinating information required for audit, assurance, regulatory, and RFI responses.
• The role is expected to support the mobilisation and embedding of sustainable AI risk management practices into BAU. This includes helping domain teams understand AI-amplified risks, translating AI-related control requirements into practical operating processes, supporting governance and reporting, and driving continuous improvement of the control environment as the Bank’s use of AI evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting AI-amplified risk discovery, baselines assessment, control gap analysis, control uplift tracking, and BAU monitoring activities.
• Assisting domain teams in documenting AI-related risk impacts, controls, actions, issues, dependencies, and evidence.
• Supporting governance routines, workstream coordination, progress reporting, and committee material preparation.
• Maintaining accurate trackers, logs, repositories, management information, and evidence packs for AI risk activities.
• Supporting RCSA, control testing, assurance, audit, regulatory, and RFI related activities relating to AI-amplified risks.
• Helping ensure that AI-related risk information is complete, consistent, timely, and escalated where required.

Processes

• Embed AI-amplified risk considerations into existing domain processes, standards, and control routines.
• Assess where AI adoption changes processes and relevant control expectations, ownership, evidence, or escalation requirements.
• Support process owners in uplifting controls, and procedures for AI-impacted activities.
• Coordinate dependencies between AI Governance, Technology, Cyber, Data, Compliance, and Third-Party risk teams.
• Track delivery of agreed process and control uplift actions.

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and challenge AI-amplified risks across existing risk domains.
• Support materiality assessments, control gap reviews, and residual risk assessments for AI-impacted processes, tools, platforms, vendors, and use cases.
• Provide clear risk opinions and recommendations to support control uplift, risk acceptance, remediation, and escalation decisions.
• Monitor AI-related issues, control gaps, incidents, risk acceptances, and management actions.
• Support integration of AI-amplified risks into RCSA, control testing, MI, KRIs, KCIs, and BAU risk reporting.

Governance

• Manage AI risk workstreams and ensure delivery remains aligned to agreed scope, timelines, and governance expectations in partnership with central AI Risk governance teams.
• Prepare governance updates, executive summaries, committee materials, and decision papers on AI-amplified risk topics.
• Escalate material risks, blockers, dependencies, and unresolved control gaps through appropriate governance forums.
• Support clear ownership across domain teams, control owners, AI governance, and Risk Management.
• Maintain auditable records of key decisions, actions, issues, and escalations.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Ensure activities are aligned to Group policies, AI standards, regulatory expectations, and applicable conduct requirements.
• Support mapping of AI-amplified risks to relevant regulatory, policy, and control obligations.
• Promote responsible AI adoption by escalating risks of unfair, inappropriate, opaque, or poorly controlled outcomes.
• Support audit, assurance, regulatory, and RFI responses relating to AI-amplified risks.
• Display exemplary conduct and uphold the Group’s Values, Code of Conduct, and risk management standards.

Key Stakeholders

• AI Leadership Team
• T&O Management Team
• Central AI Governance and AI Enablement Teams
• 2nd Line of Defence functions
• Governance & Optimisation teams
• Group Internal Audit
• T&O Risk Management Teams
• T&O Technology Process Owners
• Regulators and their appointed auditors (where applicable)

Other Responsibilities

• Support ad-hoc tactical and strategic risk initiatives to meet business and operational demands through thoughtful partnership.

Key Requirements for the role

• Experience in AI Risk Management within a large, regulated financial services environment.
• Preferably experience in one or more of the following risk domains within a large, regulated, financial services environment: Technology, Cyber, Compliance, Conduct, Data, and Third Party.
• Strong understanding of technology control environments (people, process, and technology) and their application within software engineering and technology delivery domains.
• Experience conducting or supporting deep dive risk reviews of emerging technologies, new platforms, or material technology changes.
• Ability to provide clear, defensible risk opinions and effective challenge to senior stakeholders across Technology & Operations, and Risk Management functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise, high quality risk documentation suitable for audit, regulatory, and governance review.
• Strong analytical skills, detail-focused with the ability to interpret large volume of information.
• Problem solving skills with ability to influence across all levels of business.
• Ability to independently drive initiatives with minimum hands-on supervision.

Skills and Experience

• AI Risk
• Technology Risk
• Cybersecurity Risk
• Compliance Risk
• Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)
• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
• Controls Design and Assessment
• Process Improvement
• IT Audit and Control
• AI Risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
• Post graduate qualification (e.g. MBA, PGDM, M.Tech, or equivalent) is preferred but not mandatory.
• Relevant professional certifications in Technology Risk, Information Security, Audit, or Risk Management (e.g. CISA, CRISC, CISSP or equivalent) are desirable.
• Ideally 10+ years of experience in banking, analytical or another relevant environment
• Languages: English and/or local language skills as relevant to country requirements

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.