Job ID: 38591
Location: London, GB
Area of interest: Operations
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 9 Sept 2025
Job Description
We are seeking a highly experienced Director, Prime Services Business Risk Manager to join our Markets team. In this role, you will act as the trusted risk advisor to the Prime Services leadership team, ensuring the business operates within the Bank’s risk appetite while supporting growth and innovation. You will be responsible for identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring non-financial risks (NFRs) across the Prime Services business, driving a strong control environment, and ensuring compliance with global regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary risk contact for the Prime Services business.
• Execute the Non-Financial Risk Framework: risk identification, control design, assessment, monitoring, and remediation.
• Lead and strengthen the control environment through testing, thematic reviews, and remediation of audit/regulatory findings.
• Monitor and advise on regulatory developments (e.g., EMIR, CFTC, Uncleared Margin Rules) and ensure operational resilience.
• Oversee risk governance forums, providing credible challenge and subject matter expertise.
• Support Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA) and ensure accurate documentation.
• Provide risk input for new products, technology changes, and transformation projects.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, regulators, and internal committees, promoting a risk-aware culture.

Skills and Qualifications

Technical & Professional Skills

• Strong knowledge of Prime Services workflows (financing, margining, clearing, custody, execution).
• Proven track record in business risk management, operational risk, compliance, or internal audit within a global financial institution.
• Strong grasp of financial markets regulations and risk management frameworks.
• Experience with risk remediation programs and large-scale change initiatives.
• Data-driven mindset with ability to use management information (MI) and dashboards to influence decisions.

Leadership & Interpersonal Skills

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and risk governance committees.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Self-starter with a problem-solving orientation and high integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Risk, Business, or related field.
• Professional certifications (e.g., FRM, CFA, ICA, PRMIA) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in global regulatory regimes and risk control frameworks.

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

• Serve as the primary risk contact for the Prime Services business.
• Execute the Non-Financial Risk Framework: risk identification, control design, assessment, monitoring, and remediation.
• Lead and strengthen the control environment through testing, thematic reviews, and remediation of audit/regulatory findings.
• Monitor and advise on regulatory developments (e.g., EMIR, CFTC, Uncleared Margin Rules) and ensure operational resilience.
• Oversee risk governance forums, providing credible challenge and subject matter expertise.
• Support Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA) and ensure accurate documentation.
• Provide risk input for new products, technology changes, and transformation projects.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, regulators, and internal committees, promoting a risk-aware culture