Manager, FM Regulatory Operation

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

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking an experienced regulatory reporting professional to oversee and optimize in-country reporting processes. The role focuses on ensuring timely regulatory submissions and maintaining robust controls across APAC, including MIFID, EMIR and related regimes.

You will collaborate with Technology, Risk, Finance and Compliance teams to evolve processes, drive automation, and reduce manual errors while staying aligned with group-wide directives and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• 5–7 years of regulatory reporting experience.
• Experience overseeing end-to-end regulatory operations workflows.
• Familiar with APAC regulatory landscape and major regimes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and perform regulatory reporting processes for timely submissions to regulators.
• Manage end-to-end regulatory operations workflows and controls.
• Collaborate with Technology, Risk, Finance and Compliance teams.
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess impact on operations and reporting.
• Drive automation and process improvements to reduce manual errors.

Skills

Regulatory reporting

Process improvement

Stakeholder management

Automation

Analytics

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Excel

Regulatory reporting systems

Job description

Job Summary

• This role could be based in Malaysia and India. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with In-Country teams / Compliance / Tech and passing on key messages to team.
• Drive improvement in processes and services based on gained knowledge.
• Migrate and run BAU for In-Country Reporting function.
• All aspects of tasks related to prevention, detection, assurance, and oversight of Regulatory reporting function.
• Timely responses to external and internal queries.
• Build tactical and strategic processes and collaborate with Technology and Change teams to deliver them.
• Ensure adherence to Process Documents including regular up-dation and execution of the same.
• Ensure robust control framework is enriched and followed by Reg ops team.
• Manage teamwork allocations and quality delivery.
• Actively participate in group Projects / changes.

Risk Management

• Create a control framework that effectively executes prevention, detection, Assurance and oversight processes for In-Country Regulatory Reporting functions.
• Understand the system architecture limitations and remediation plans to ensure impact on day-to-day reporting can be mitigated.
• Evolve, improve and question processes to ensure the team are working in an environment of continual change while having certainty around how current DOI processes should be completed.
• Ensure timely escalation of errors, omissions and technical issues impacting the performance of the reporting function.
• Provide a daily dashboard of performance to provide visibility of the performance of the reporting function.

Other Responsibilities

• Experience in handling reconciliation breaks and remediating the same in collaboration with various stakeholders.
• Some experience of regulatory reporting e.g. MIFID, EMIR, Dodd-Frank reporting and the systems used by banks to report trades.

The Ideal Candidate

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Min 5-7 year of relevant work experience
• Oversee and perform regulatory reporting processes to ensure timely and accurate submissions to regulators
• Manage and improve end-to-end regulatory operations workflows and controls.
• Familiar with FMO functions, products and trade lifecycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Technology, Risk, Finance, and Compliance.
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess impact on operations and reporting
• Drive automation and process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce manual errors.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of the regulatory landscape including APAC, MIFID, SFTR EMIR, DF, STAYS, BOE etc
• Effective communication skills verbal and written.
• Good with MS Office ie Word, Excel and Power Point

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.