Job Summary

• To ensure the Risk Management Framework is effectively communicated and implemented across Traded Products and for administering related governance and reporting and improvement of Group Policies and Procedures.
• To exercise direct risk control and monitoring ownership for Traded Risk across FM businesses in MENAP & Africa.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• To uphold the integrity of risk/return decisions, and for ensuring that risks are properly assessed, that risk/return decisions are made transparently on the basis of this assessment and are controlled in accordance with the Group\xe2\x80\x99s standards and its risk appetite for FM businesses in MENAP & Africa.

Business

• Engage all stakeholders (e.g. Business partners, Market Risk, Finance, Legal and Compliance) to raise their awareness of Financial Markets\xe2\x80\x99 Product Risks and how these are managed by Traded Risk.

Processes

• Facilitate Financial Markets business through approving new/revised Country Addendums, ensuring proper counterparty limits set for liquidity management and for trading and revising credit excess approval guidelines to enhance framework for approval criteria and turnaround time.
• Manage risk exposures in the trading portfolios. Provide early warning and identify deteriorating credits. Manage exposure down as required.
• Communicate the strategic intent and collective agenda for Traded Risk function.
• Maintain and develop risk capabilities, skills and infrastructure to meet ongoing business needs and plans.
• Ensure effective management of operational risks within the Traded Risk function and compliance with applicable internal policies, and external laws and regulations.

People & Talent

• Uphold and reinforce the independence of Traded Risk function from front line.
• Lead by example to build appropriate culture & values within Traded Risk function in MENAP & Africa.

Risk Management

Risk Appetite

• Uphold the integrity of risk/return decisions, by challenging business and control function heads to demonstrate that risk origination and control decisions are properly informed and consistent with strategy and risk appetite.
• Maintain alignment with risk appetite by rebalancing of risks or controls that may be required in response to internal and external factors.
• Be alert to significant market movement and provide appropriate response to material events or other risk issues.
• Approve FM transactions in compliance with personal delegated authority.

Risk Framework Ownership of Credit and Operational Risk

• Ensure risk identification, measurement, reporting, and modelling capabilities are objective, consistent, and compliant with applicable regulations.
• Design, maintain and effectively communicate risk control parameters across Financial Markets, including policies, control standards, risk exposure limits and other control levers in order to maintain Bank\xe2\x80\x99s risk profile in line with the Group\xe2\x80\x99s risk appetite.
• Ensure the completeness of Operational Risk Control activities, i.e., KCSA, Business Continuity Plan, Recovery Exercise, Fire Drills, etc. for Traded Risk and identify and address any significant gaps that may exist between them.
• Maintain a good understanding of the requirements of the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s key external stakeholders in respect of risk management and ensure these are well understood internally and reflected in internal procedures.

Governance

Risk Governance

• Implement the overall Risk Management Framework for Traded Products and oversee its effective application in MENAP & Africa.
• Assist Head, Traded Risk \xe2\x80\x93 Counterparty Credit Risk or directly contribute to the various Risk and Credit Issue Forum and risk-related Committees by providing updates on relevant risk topics, regulatory developments or changes in policies and processes.
• Ensure global and regional business and product heads and all Risk Control Owners understand and accept their risk management responsibilities through Financial Markets\xe2\x80\x99 local and regional committees.
• Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealings with regulators and auditors.
• Ensure that material operational risks are reported to the relevant FM Product Governance Committees.
• Ensure that material traded risks are reported to the relevant Risk Committees.
• Keep abreast with the latest development impacting the Financial Market business from a risk and capital perspective.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Financial Markets Sales, Structuring and Trading
• Group Market Risk
• Regional Credit Officers, and Senior Credit Officers
• Group Internal Audit
• Group Operational Risk
• Group Legal and Compliance
• Other Group Head of Control Functions
• Credit Risk reporting and Management Information (CRRMI)
• Counterparty Credit Risk Models (CCRM)

External:

• Local Regulators
• Group\xe2\x80\x99s external auditors

Other Responsibilities

• Embed \xe2\x80\x9cHere for Good\xe2\x80\x9d and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in Traded Risk Team in Africa and Middle East
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in risk management in the banking industry, including demonstrated success in a similar role.
• Sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Demonstrated track record in successful management and ability to manage risk in geographically dispersed and highly varied client segments product base and asset classes.
• Licenses and Certifications/accreditations; SCB internal credit risk courses.
• Significant experience in managing stake holders across business, other risk and control functions.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Risk Management \xe2\x80\x93 C&I Credit Risk
• Manage Conduct
• Manage Risk
• Manage People

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 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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