Job ID: 20818
Location: London, GB
Area of interest: Operations
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 24 Feb 2025

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a Director, Banking COO to join our team at Standard Chartered Bank. The successful candidate will be a part of the Banking COO team for the UK region and will drive origination, develop strong client relationships and be seen as an expert in Tech Ops and OPS CIB area by internal and external stakeholders. The role will work closely as the first point of contact with the Banking Heads, group Banking COOs, and Business Risk Managers, among others.
The Director takes 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. The Director should effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
We appreciate self-driven candidates who will be working closely with the wider team, coverage and product partners to develop an understanding of the competitive landscape and identify prospective partners who can address customer needs and accelerate growth. We believe that a willingness to acquire new skills will contribute to success in this role.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in similar roles.
• Broad understanding of core banking products offered to CIB clients with strong knowledge of Lending and Financing Products preferred.
• Strong inter-personal, business development and managerial skills, particularly in leading and collaborating with senior stakeholders and managers across a wide range of business agendas and initiatives (business enablement).
• Proven ability to deliver in challenging and dynamic work environment and to demonstrate ability to delicately handle and resolve issues of diverse natures.
• Demonstrate willingness to change and be a change catalyst especially with process simplification.
• High integrity and professionalism.
• Expertise in Regulatory matters.
• Strong Business Risk Management.
• Project Management experience is good to have.

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