Associate Director Business Risk Assessment & Advisory

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We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
The successful candidate has a strong business acumen and understanding of “CFCC - Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance Risk Analysis and Advisory”. The candidate is highly skilled individuals with Practioners level experience in CFCC risk assessment and monitoring, business risk advisory, regulatory and policy interpretation & compliance management, issue and event management and change risk management with exposure to product development, regulatory technology and innovation, data and analytics led risk management practices. This is a global role covering across the SCB footprint in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Americas, covering multiple Businesses from Retail Bank, Private Bank, Affluent & Wealth Management, Transaction Banking including Trade & Cash, Banking and Financial Markets Business.
The responsibilities includes, working across Business, Products, Clusters and Countries Compliance and Specialist teams to perform:

• Risk Identification, Analysis and Assessment of CFCC Risks, measure exposure to those risks and design, build and recommend control framework to mitigate and manage those risks, to enable structural and thematic risk response or remediation.
• Risk monitoring of dynamic changes to risk and control environment, generate operational level insights to enable operational or tactical risk response or remediation.
• Perform targeted deep dive into material or emerging or unknown risk areas due to a change in threat profile or business strategy, to enable structural risk response or remediation.
• Manage issues and events as it occurs, perform root cause analysis and lessons learnt, remediate vulnerabilities, reduce exposures, fix gaps to improve control environment.
• Manage CFCC risks introduced due to business change, perform a holistic assessment of impact of those changes to Businesses, mitigate and manage those risks proactively, to enable a sustainable growth of business.
• Provide Business risk advisory in areas such as policy and regulation, business, or product change, to enable a sustainable growth of business.
• Provide actionable risk insights and recommendation actions & decisions to Business, Products, Clusters and Countries Compliance and Specialist teams for them to drive & deliver client aware and risk focused outcomes and decisions.
• Work with CFCC Product Owners in continuous improvement of products and services, build and innovate using reg tech and data analytical products.

Strategy

• Contribute materially towards the development, support, and implementation of the vision, strategy, and direction of the CFCC Professional Services team and in support of the Bank’s strategic direction and growth aspirations.
• Responsible to work with CFCC Product & Professional Services colleagues, CFCC Coverage & Specialist Teams and Business Risk Managers to identify risks across the Bank and drive appropriate action.

Business

• Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all CFCC Product & Professional Services colleagues, CFCC Coverage & Specialist Teams and Business Risk Managers that is based on trust, capability and integrity, providing timely, responsive and
• quality CFCC related advice and guidance to enable the business and functions to meet/ achieve their strategic tactical objectives.
  
  • Support the integration of the Professional Services into the Bank’s overall CFCC Risk Management strategy. This includes (but not limited to): taking ownership of incoming queries by not handling them off, taking a leading role in actively becoming the go-to person for all risk assessments and monitoring and ensuring Business advise provided is consistent and aligned to CFCC’s advisory model.
  • Work closely with CFCC Product & Professional Services colleagues, CFCC Coverage & Specialist Teams and Business Risk Managers, as well as other key stakeholders, to provide substantive oversight support and enable sustainable CFCC outcomes.
  • Execute high standards of regulatory compliance and deliver key priorities and initiatives, aligned to the Professional Services performance scorecard.
  • Advanced level Expertise on CFCC risks, respective Business and Product and Global regulatory frameworks.

9+ overall working experience, Banking or Financial Institution or Regulator or Fintech or equivalent industry

• 3+ years in atleast one of the below

• Data Risk
• Conflict of Interest
• Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting
• Regulatory Conduct
• Market Conduct
• Client Conduct

• Anti-Money Laundering
• Anti-Bribery & Corruption
• Sanctions
• Fraud (Internal and External)

• Well versed with tools and techniques of analysing potential risk exposures
• Understanding of effective communication skills.
• Understanding of best practice risk assessment techniques and risk management frameworks.
• Understanding of the key features of relevant laws and regulations relevant to the Group
• Sound judgement on business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk,
• Ability to balance both detail oriented and big picture perspectives.
• Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across functions.
• We value your practical and hands-on experience in the above domains .
• Any industry certifications in the CFCC domain are most welcome (e.g., ACAMS, ICA).
• Any industry certifications in the Business or Product domain are most welcome

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

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.