Director, Second Line Assurance, Europe & Americas

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At Standard Chartered Bank, our vision in Conduct, Financial Crime & Compliance (CFCC) is clear: Partnering to drive the right outcomes for clients and communities. Our Second Line Assurance (2LA) function is critical to this mission, providing independent, effective, and insightful assurance across non-financial risk types. We focus on key risks impacting our clients, business, and regulators, and aim to continuously improve client experience and risk management. Join us as a Director, Second Line Assurance, Europe & Americas and be a part of our journey to create a digital, commercial, and risk-based function.

Responsibilities

• Lead Assurance Reviews, communicate outcomes to stakeholders, and support them in developing mitigating actions.
• Collaborate with and support the Head of Assurance, directly contributing to the development of the 2LA Annual Plan.
• Engage with stakeholders and continuously monitor business functions assigned by the Head of Assurance, focusing on CFCC and Operational Risk matters.
• Lead quality review execution and ensure timely delivery of the Plan.
• Support the Head of Assurance in demonstrating knowledge and capability to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and communication of the 2LA Methodology.
• Proactively identify and communicate emerging risks for periodic risk-based reviews.
• Execute review tasks, identify potential issues, and ensure formal evaluation
• Develop risk-based assurance reviews for consistency and efficiency.
• Manage 2LA reviews, ensuring quality, consistency, and timeliness.
• Complete documentation and track issues in the Assurance system.
• Promote cooperation with auditors, regulators, peers, and the industry.
  
  

Qualifications

• Background in Auditing, Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk Management.
• 6-10 years of experience in audit, assurance, operational risks, compliance, or risk management reviews/testing.
• Strong analytical skills, confidence in data interrogation, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Responsible, accountable, and demonstrates a risk-based approach to decision-making.
  
  

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
  
  

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 107,490 USD to 147,799 USD. 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

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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.