Executive Director, Banking COO Americas

Standard Chartered; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Time-off policy

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Learning & development

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking an Executive Director Americas Banking COO to lead the Americas region within Global Banking and Syndicate & Portfolio Management. The role focuses on strategy development, governance, risk management, and operational excellence across country and regional levels.

You will work closely with global Banking COOs, BRMs and stakeholders to enable business growth while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of relevant business management/COO experience ideally at a global banking institution.

Responsibilities

• Strategic execution and implementation of country, product and regional Banking strategy and initiatives.
• Coordinate with global Banking COOs, BRMs and stakeholders to ensure governance and change management.
• Drive operational efficiency, risk management, and compliance across the Americas Banking agenda.
• Provide business enablement and support for local and regional leadership in Global Banking and S&P/M products.
• Oversee process re-engineering and regulatory changes affecting business processes and infrastructure.
• Support capacity planning, business continuity, access controls, and SLAs.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Reporting into the group Global Banking COO team, the Executive Director Americas Banking COO supports the Banking business comprising Global Banking and Syndicate & Portfolio Management (S&PM) in the development and implementation of the business strategy, organisational re-alignments, accountabilities and processes to capture growth opportunities aligned to strategic direction of the business in a safe and sustainable manner.

The role will support the Banking Heads in Americas as a regional COO working closely with group Banking COOs, Business Risk Managers (BRM) and function stakeholders. Responsibilities include business enablement, business risk management, local governance, conduct and supervision, change management including regulatory implementation, and dealing room management. The position plays a pivotal role in driving initiatives which enhance operational efficiency, as well as ensures governance and compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• First point of contact in Global Banking COO for senior Global Banking and S&PM leadership in the Americas, including regional Capital Markets Heads, and for the Global Banking Americas Head (as S24) to support the execution and implementation of country, products and regional Banking strategy and business initiatives.

Business

• Execution and delivery of the Banking agenda locally/regionally. Assist the Banking Head S24 with local business requirements e.g. Management Board meetings / presentations, yearly Strategy papers (also applicable to Strategy).
• Partner with local support functions and stakeholders to unblock any business issues.
• Be the “connector” between global and local and export best practices.
• Driving and management of a prudent cost culture.
• Assist the business in the roll-out of new Banking products and services, in line with the group strategy.
• Responsible for business support and enablement for GB products locally with the support of the global Business Managers for each product vertical.

Processes

• Continuously seek out process simplification and process re-engineering opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
• Keep up to date with local regulations to assess impact / business opportunities and manage any changes to business processes and infrastructure.

People & Talent

• Support local / regional leadership as first point of contact for all Global Banking and S&PM matters with the ability to mobilise local Banking COO resources to support incoming (regular and ad hoc) requests.

Risk Management

• Identify, assess and mitigate operational risks in-country and provide Country Process Owner support and in accordance with the Banking and Markets Support and Governance Model / Memorandum of Understanding.
• Execute controls, monitor, report and escalation operational risks where appropriate in-country/clusters, including for S24 supervision.

Governance

• Operate effective supervision of Banking staff, where applicable.
• Ensuring Banking staff adhere to internal and external processes and procedures, and governance practices set out by the Country risk committees.
• Support the Banking business heads in product governance matters, for eg. country addendum updates and new products approvals.
• Support Banking business heads in supervising and coordinating in-country audits
• Provide business management support, eg capacity planning, business continuity, access controls, Service Level Agreements, licensing, etc.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of relevant business management/COO experience ideally at a global banking institution

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 185,000 USD to 280,000USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers

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