Job Description

Job ID: 34453


Location: Dubai, AE


Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Office Working


Opening date: 14 Jul 2025

Job Summary

Are you passionate about enabling business while controlling risk? Bringing clarity in complexity? Have you got a keen eye for detail and enjoy the challenge of evolving markets and organisation? If you're seeking a stimulating opportunity to make a significant impact, we invite you to join the risk team as

Regional Head, Enterprise Risk Management

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You will play a crucial role in assessing, monitoring, mitigating risks and drive data decision-making processes.

Key Responsibilities

Improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of risk management processes within Enterprise Risk Management team in the region. Ensure timeliness, quality of execution and service delivery by team members on various regulatory and adhoc projects. Lead discussions and drive transformation for the risk function with various stakeholders. Appraise and contribute to the development of the Bank's strategic plans and alignment with risk appetite. Continuously enhance risk measures and transparency. Supervise and coordinate all related processes where the Enterprise Risk Management team is identified as process owner across the region. Lead and develop an effective and impactful regional Enterprise Risk Management team. Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of the Function's people, and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles. Review and challenge the country strategy where it is not aligned with the country risk appetite. Ensure new activities, changes to processes and products conform with the Change Management Policy, Project Governance Policy and the Product Governance Policy. Oversight of Risk Governance activities within the function. Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealing with the regulators in-country. Ensure that material risk exposures and related issues are reported to the responsible risk governance committees. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

Experience in risk governance / risk management / Operational Risk. Excellent analytical skills and sound judgement in a rapidly changing environment. Ability for problem solving, working independently and attention to detail. Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex risk issues to senior and non-technical stakeholders. Excellent interpersonal skills, multicultural awareness and sensitivity. Ability to work in a matrix organisation, leveraging resources across the organisation to complete deliverables. Enterprise Risk Management experience

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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