HR Advisor

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking a passionate HR Advisor to enhance leadership capabilities and support talent development. This role involves collaborating with People Leaders to drive strategic HR initiatives, ensuring effective communication of HR policies, and facilitating career experiences for high-potential talent. The ideal candidate will have strong advisory skills, a data-driven mindset, and a commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Inclusive and values-driven organization

Qualifications

• Strong HR advisory and stakeholder management experience.
• Knowledge of continuous performance management and employee development.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders professionally.

Responsibilities

• Support People Leaders with advisory services across talent management.
• Partner with CoEs to deliver HR initiatives and strategies.
• Monitor performance and improve HR advisory processes.

Skills

HR advisory experience

Stakeholder management

Interpersonal skills

Data-driven mindset

Communication skills

Education

Professional certification in HR

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a passionate HR professional to support People Leaders and colleagues in driving the Bank’s people priorities. As an HR Advisor, you will play a key role in enabling leadership capability, talent development, and an enhanced colleague experience through critical advisory interactions.

About HR Advisory:

HR Advisory is central to Standard Chartered’s people agenda, delivering impactful support that strengthens leadership effectiveness, builds a high-performance culture, and enhances the overall colleague experience. The team collaborates closely with People Leaders, CoEs, and Business/Cluster teams to drive strategic HR initiatives aligned to the People Plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Support People Leaders with advisory services across talent management, performance conversations, and employee development.
• Partner with Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and business clusters to deliver HR initiatives and people strategies.
• Proactively identify recurring people challenges and escalate them to Cluster Leads for intervention.
• Facilitate differentiated career experiences for high-potential talent through development planning.
• Execute scalable HR programmes and initiatives in alignment with the People Plan.
• Ensure effective communication and adoption of HR policies and processes across clusters.
• Monitor performance and contribute to continuous improvement of HR advisory processes.

Skills and Experience

• Strong HR advisory and stakeholder management experience.
• Knowledge of continuous performance management, talent management, and employee development.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and navigate complex people situations with professionalism.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills.
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in HR analytics and reporting.
• Knowledge of HR policies, standards, and compliance requirements.
• Professional certification in HR (desirable).

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.