Associate Director, ICS Risk & Control, CyOPS - Chennai /Kuala Lumpur

Standard Chartered Bank; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking candidates for a role in Cyber Operations in Kuala Lumpur. The position focuses on risk and control activities, compliance with risk frameworks, and stakeholder engagement. Candidates will be responsible for maintaining controls, providing timely reporting, and supporting remediation actions. Ideal for individuals with a strong understanding of risk management and compliance in a financial context.

Responsibilities

• Perform all risk and control activities within the Cyber Operations function.
• Act as confidant to Process Owner(s) for developing and prioritizing controls.
• Drive compliance with the Bank's risk frameworks and policies.
• Deliver timely deep dive reviews focused on risk.
• Support design and maintenance of internal processes for risk monitoring.
• Maintain Cyber Operations controls and corresponding metrics.
• Provide accurate risk & control MI to management.
• Support stakeholders in defining remediation actions for control weaknesses.
• Support Conduct Risk Management plan delivery.

Job description

This role will be based at Chennai / Kuala Lumpur

Responsibilities

• Perform all risk and control activities related to all people, processes and assets within the Cyber Operations function.
• Act as the confidant to the ‘Process Owner(s)’ responsible for developing, prioritizing and implementing controls.
• Drive compliance with the Bank’s risk frameworks and policies.
• Deliver risk focused, timely and re‑performable deep dive reviews.
• Support design and maintenance of internal processes that allow to dynamically monitor risk as well as effectively mitigate identified gaps.
• Maintain Cyber Operations controls and corresponding metrics.
• Provide timely and accurate risk & control MI to the management within risk management systems and repositories.
• Support stakeholders in defining remediation actions to address identified control weaknesses as well as track remediation, check and challenge delivery status.
• Support the delivery of the Conduct Risk Management plan.

Strategy

Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy as well as Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Risk Management

• Support Process owners in the execution of their risk management accountabilities.
• Work with other control assurance teams to drive efficiency, effectiveness and reduce duplication.
• Perform review of the control self‑assessment outcomes, control testing results and adequacy of the related remediation actions.
• Provide robust challenge and escalation to senior management to ensure activities achieve risk reduction.
• Support activities related to control design, assessment, testing processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Support liaison with Group Internal Audit and any third party or regulatory inspections.

Governance

Awareness and understanding of the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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 [not applicable] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.