Job ID: 35476
Location: Johannesburg, ZA
Area of interest: Operations
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 28 Jul 2025

JOB SUMMARY

The Exchange Control Team is responsible for adhering to all regulatory processes to maintain our Authorized Dealer’s License and deliver exceptional client service. This includes proactively identifying and implementing compliance activities across Standard Chartered Bank Branches, supporting Banking and Service Delivery Divisions to manage operational risks, and ensuring transactions align with current rules and regulations. The team also handles well-motivated applications to the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB), systematic filing of transaction reports, and administration of the loan reporting system. Key tasks include drawing and processing various transaction reports, responding to SARB inspections, reconciling the Exchange Control mailbox daily, and logging activities in AOM to ensure timely and effective exchange control compliance

SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree or equivalent
• At least 3 years relevant managerial experience
• Sound knowledge of SWIFT Message Standards and Cash Management Operations processing systems, especially ISO20022 and Pay systems
• Ability to handle pressure effectively
• Good technical understanding of Transactional Banking Products.
• Good understanding of Exchange Control regulations as well as reporting requirements.
• Good inter-personal skills with the ability to engage and work with others.
• High degree of responsibility, integrity and discretion.
• High level of control consciousness.
• Ability to handle changing situations, environments and markets.
• Excellent communication capability (written and spoken).
• Ability to work within a multi-function, multi-discipline team environment with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.

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

The Exchange Control Team is dedicated to ensuring compliance with exchange control regulations and providing excellent client service. Key responsibilities include proactively following up with clients on expired exchange control applications, assisting clients with exchange control queries and advice through meetings, telecom conversations, or mail. The team also manages and updates the generic mailbox, ensuring timely follow-up on SARB applications.
By fulfilling these responsibilities, the Exchange Control Team ensures robust exchange control compliance, operational efficiency, and adherence to regulatory standards, thereby safeguarding the bank’s financial and reputational integrity.