Job Description

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced professional to join our Capital Markets Products & Solutions and Wealth Lending team in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). The successful candidate will act as a key business partner across Wealth Solutions, ensuring alignment with Retail Banking and regulatory requirements, while driving operational efficiency, risk management, and business transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Processes

• Ensure Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) processes and products comply with both Group and Country regulatory frameworks.
• Oversee day-to-day product controls, sales compliance monitoring, and resolution of process gaps or emerging risks.
• Support implementation of business strategy, transformation initiatives, and system enhancements that improve scalability and client experience.
• Maintain strong governance of Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) activities across Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), including support for regional business management.

People & Talent

• Collaborate with Wealth Management Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) Product Teams on system development and deployment.
• Lead business risk initiatives including regulatory adoption, control improvements, and embedding risk frameworks.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks linked to new product launches or enhancements.
• Drive cultural and operational change by embedding new ways of working across order execution and related processes.
• Handle product-related complaints within Wealth Solutions.

Risk Management

• Manage the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process across Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) units.
• Monitor, escalate, and follow through on operational risks, losses, policy deviations, and audit issues.
• Ensure timely reporting in systems such as M7 and maintain audit readiness.
• Partner with regulators, auditors, and stakeholders to strengthen risk governance.

Governance

• Assess and enhance Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) governance arrangements and ensure effective oversight mechanisms.
• Engage constructively with regulators and uphold Group standards of transparency, ethics, and compliance.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Uphold the Group's Code of Conduct and direct by example in promoting ethical practices.
• Proactively address compliance, conduct, and risk matters to deliver fair outcomes for clients and effective financial markets.

Key Stakeholders

• Wealth Solution Chief Operating Officer (COO), Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) & United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• Regional Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) Heads and Affluent & Wealth Management leads
• Group Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) Product Heads and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
• Business Operational Risk Managers, Compliance, Finance, Audit, Operations, and Financial Markets teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with experience in Wealth Solutions, Treasury, or Capital Market products.
• Proven expertise in financial market operations and dealing room environments.
• In-depth knowledge of Wealth/Capital Market products, governance standards, audit requirements, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong skills in change management, problem solving, influencing, project delivery, and stakeholder engagement.
• Proficiency with systems such as Razor, Bloomberg, and related market tools is highly advantageous.

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.

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