Senior Manager - Risk Governance

JOB SUMMARY

Supports the Country Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) in risk governance activities and oversight of the country risk management framework in line with Philippine regulatory requirements. Acts as the central coordination point for CCRO owned principal and non principal risks, ensuring effective governance, committee oversight, reporting, and escalation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
Support the implementation and continuous enhancement of country risk governance aligned with the Group Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Business
Partner with Front Office and senior management to support informed risk reward decision making within approved risk appetite.

Processes
Embed the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and Risk Type Frameworks; coordinate preparation of the Country Risk Appetite, governance reports, dashboards, and risk mapping.

People & Talent
Promote a strong risk and governance culture through collaboration and effective stakeholder engagement

Risk Management
Act as Second Line Risk Control Owner for Credit, Reputational, Country, and Model Risks; design, monitor, and affirm effectiveness of controls against Board approved risk tolerances; escalate material risk issues.

Governance
Manage Country Risk Committee meetings, including agenda, papers, secretariat role, and Committee Effectiveness Reviews; ensure compliance with Committee Governance Standards.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and the Group Code of Conduct. Take personal responsibility for embedding high standards of ethics, conduct, and regulatory compliance.

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• 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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• Country Chief Risk Officer
• Country Risk Framework Owners
• Front Office and Business Heads
• Group Risk and ERMF Teams
• Country and Regional Risk Committees

Other Responsibilities
• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in SCB Philippines; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Qualifications
• Education Bachelor's Degree in business, finance or related discipline
• Training As required by the role
• Languages English

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Risk Governance
• ERMF
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Reporting & Committees
• Control Design & Assurance

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.