Job Description

Role Responsibilities

This opportunity is for an Associate Director, Policy Analysis, Group Public & Reg Affairs (GPRA) based in Dubai.

GPRA sits within Conduct, Financial Crime & Compliance (CFCC), whose vision is: Partnering to drive the right outcomes for clients and communities.

GPRA works with internal and external stakeholders to drive the alignment of the Bank's strategy and global public policy, regulatory and supervisory objectives. We are organised into four teams:

• Policy Analysis: Identifies, analyses and helps position around developing policy change.
• Regulatory Affairs: Design, implements, and manages the Bank's strategic engagement with regulatory policy makers and related external stakeholders.
• Government Affairs: Designs, implements, and manages the Bank's strategic engagement with policymakers and other external stakeholders.
• Regulatory Liaison: The Bank's key intermediary to facilitate effective supervisory engagement.

Job Purpose

You will collaborate with colleagues across the Bank to support our strategic direction and growth aspirations. You will do this by tracking local public policy and regulatory developments that may impact the bank, as well as inputting to identification and management of global public policy and regulatory policy themes.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Track / monitor key political, policy and regulatory developments emanating from the Africa and Middle East (AME) region, with a view to informing the strategic prioritisation and assessment of policy issues.
• Provide analytical reporting and insights on political, policy and regulatory developments across the AME region in partnership with, and in support of, the GPRA teams: Regulatory Affairs; Group Regulatory Liaison and Government Affairs.
• Provide internal stakeholders with timely and relevant information to enable the creation of policy positions in response to key emerging trends and policy/regulatory issues.
• Work closely with local colleagues, business units and related support functions, including Corporate Affairs and Brand and Marketing, to ensure the consistency of the bank's public messaging with respect to policy and regulatory trends.
• Develop relationships with and support representation of Group Public and Regulatory Affairs and/or Bank at industry associations and other trade bodies on or impacting key policy/regulatory issues.

Strategy

• Work in partnership with local colleagues and the Group to prioritise the assessment of policy themes in support of our strategy: delivering our network; grow our affluent businesses; optimise low-returning markets; improve productivity; and transform and disrupt with digital.

• Support global and regional initiatives on trade and market access and new business opportunities.
• Develop detailed understanding of wider and evolving policy, regulatory, business and economic environments in which the Bank operates in order to provide advice and guidance to key stakeholders.

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.
• Support Policy Analysis and Regulatory Affairs to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Live the commitments of our Here for good brand promise, acting as a role-model for others.

People and Talent

• Promote the culture and practice of compliance with compliance standards (including conducting business within regulatory requirements, and to high ethical standards) within the Bank and embed a 'Here for good' culture and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Ability to think outside the box and inspire colleagues to collaborate across GPRA and the broader Bank and deliver on a common purpose.
• Identify opportunities for the team to use technology to improve its analytical capabilities and develop new communication formats.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Over five years' experience of regulatory issues in either an international bank, a regulatory body, consultancy or law firm;
• Analytical or policy background preferable;
• Strong ability to deploy skills into unfamiliar areas of regulation and get up to speed quickly;
• Demonstrable ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple teams and jurisdictions to achieve results;
• Operate effectively with limited supervision and self-driven;
• Excellent writing, presenting, and briefing skills required;
• Ability to engage with senior internal and external stakeholders effectively;
• Language skills relevant to the Bank's operating markets is desirable

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• 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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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