Associate Director Business Risk Assessment & Advisory, CFCC

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered seeks a CFCC Professional Services lead to oversee risk assessment and advisory across Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Americas. The role focuses on CFCC risk identification, monitoring, and regulatory interpretation, with exposure to product development, reg tech, and data analytics.

You will work with CFCC Product Owners, Compliance and Business Risk Managers to deliver risk-focused outcomes, build control frameworks, and support sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in CFCC risk assessment and monitoring across multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to interpret regulations and provide risk advisory.
• Experience with risk data analytics and reg tech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess CFCC risks and design controls.
• Monitor evolving risk and provide actionable insights.
• Deep-dive into new or emerging risk areas.
• Manage issues/events, root cause analysis, remediation.
• Advise on CFCC risk in policy, product changes, and regulatory interpretation.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to improve reg tech and data products.
• Provide risk guidance to cross-country teams.

Skills

CFCC risk assessment

Regulatory compliance

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Job description

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. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours as well as our brand promise, Here for good. We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base. The successful candidate has a strong business acumen and understanding of “CFCC - Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance Business Risk Assessment and Advisory”. The candidate is highly skilled individuals with Practioners level experience in CFCC risk assessment and monitoring, business risk advisory, regulatory and policy interpretation & compliance management, issue and event management and change risk management with exposure to product development, regulatory technology and innovation, data and analytics led risk management practices. This is a global role covering across the SCB footprint in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Americas, covering multiple Businesses from Retail Bank, Private Bank, Affluent & Wealth Management, Transaction Banking including Trade & Cash, Banking and Financial Markets Business.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities includes, working across Business, Products, Clusters and Countries Compliance and Specialist teams to perform:

• Risk Identification, Analysis and Assessment of CFCC Risks, measure exposure to those risks and design, build and recommend control framework to mitigate and manage those risks, to enable structural and thematic risk response or remediation.
• Risk monitoring of dynamic changes to risk and control environment, generate operational level insights to enable operational or tactical risk response or remediation.
• Perform targeted deep dive into material or emerging or unknown risk areas due to a change in threat profile or business strategy, to enable structural risk response or remediation.
• Manage issues and events as it occurs, perform root cause analysis and lessons learnt, remediate vulnerabilities, reduce exposures, fix gaps to improve control environment.
• Manage CFCC risks introduced due to business change, perform a holistic assessment of impact of those changes to Businesses, mitigate and manage those risks proactively, to enable a sustainable growth of business.
• Provide Business risk advisory in areas such as policy and regulation, business, or product change, to enable a sustainable growth of business.
• Provide actionable risk insights and recommendation actions & decisions to Business, Products, Clusters and Countries Compliance and Specialist teams for them to drive & deliver client aware and risk focused outcomes and decisions.
• Work with CFCC Product Owners in continuous improvement of products and services, build and innovate using reg tech and data analytical products

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Contribute materially towards the development, support, and implementation of the vision, strategy, and direction of the CFCC Professional Services team and in support of the Bank’s strategic direction and growth aspirations.
• Responsible to work with CFCC Product & Professional Services colleagues, CFCC Coverage & Specialist Teams and Business Risk Managers to identify risks across the Bank and drive appropriate action.

Business

• Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all CFCC Product & Professional Services colleagues, CFCC Coverage & Specialist Teams and Business Risk Managers that is based on trust, capability and integrity, providing timely, responsive and quality CFCC related advice and guidance to enable the business and functions to meet/ achieve their strategic tactical objectives.
• Support the integration of the Professional Services into the Bank’s overall CFCC Risk Management strategy. This includes (but not limited to): taking ownership of incoming queries by not handling them off, taking a leading role in actively becoming the go-to person for all risk assessments and monitoring and ensuring Business advise provided is consistent and aligned to CFCC’s advisory model.
• Work closely with CFCC Product & Professional Services colleagues, CFCC Coverage & Specialist Teams and Business Risk Managers, as well as other key stakeholders, to provide substantive oversight support and enable sustainable CFCC outcomes.
• Execute high standards of regulatory compliance and deliver key priorities and initiatives, aligned to the Professional Services performance scorecard.
• Advanced level Expertise on CFCC risks, respective Business and Product and Global regulatory frameworks

Processes

• Analyse comprehensive impact of CFCC related risk and regulatory matters which has impact in SCB through quantitative and qualitative assessment.
• Establish workflows, build, and maintain effective processes / DOIs to perform Risk Assessments, Risk Monitoring and Risk Advisory, aligning with Group and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Independently perform deep