Associate Director, CFCC Information and Analytics

About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.


To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.


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 Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Support the Interim Head, Group Risk Reporting in establishing and delivering optimised risk reporting supported by harmonised risk taxonomy across Principal Risk Types, in alignment with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
• Possess good understanding of data sources to effectively collect and interpret data, and to advise stakeholders on opportunities to improve and streamline reporting across Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance ("CFCC").
• Establish and maintain close links with CFCC teams to identify relevant drivers of risk sub-types, appropriate data sources and deploy analytics tools to enable application of advanced analytics techniques to cater for the dynamic and evolving function needs.
• Develop and implement data analysis, data collection systems and other strategies that optimise statistical efficiency and quality for effective supervision, control and management of CFCC risk.

Business

• Prepare committee and forum presentations and papers for one or more CFCC risk-types, through the application of data analysis and interpretation complemented with stakeholder insights
• Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualisation
• Evaluate current data model for efficiency, problems and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for handling, processing and cleaning data.
• Partner with CFCC stakeholders to gather requirements, provide status updates and build relationships.
• Maintain focus on CFCC analytical needs, including identification of critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers.
• Identify and communicate CFCC-related emerging trends and systemic issues through the analysis of firm-wide data, including regulatory breaches, internal audit, assurance findings and other risk events.

Processes

• Engage stakeholders to manage the end-to-end process of developing and deploying an analytics solution.
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualisations through data interpretation and analysis, integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources.
• Define and implement data acquisition and integration logic, and build scripts to make data evaluation process more flexible and/or scalable across data sets.
• Maintain the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from a variety of data sources.
• Propose control improvements, enhancements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Conduct data and analytics training to data users to build deeper data competencies in the organisation.

Risk Management

• Promote automation and industrialisation, where possible, for the generation of reports to relevant Group and Business risk and control committees and management groups.
• Continuously improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of CFCC risk management practices.
• Review and challenge existing practices, and partner with CFCC teams to design and/or consider sustainable technology solutions to drive efficiencies.

Governance

• Contribute to the design and implementation of robust dashboards and metrics that allow CFCC to monitor risks and operational performance of key CFCC processes.
• Establish a consistent risk taxonomy and data-driven MIs to detect and manage emerging CFCC risk or vulnerabilities.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Valued Behaviours and live by the Group 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.
• Support CFCC Information and Analytics team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Key Stakeholders

• CFCC Advisory Leadership Team
• CFCC Regions Leadership Team
• CFCC Assurance Leadership Team
• CFCC Framework and Policy Team
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Group Operational Risk

Our Ideal Candidate

• Relevant experience in financial services or audit / risk management / Compliance and/or FCC roles.
• Experience with BI application architecture and development with hands on experience in data performance tuning, data modelling, data transformation and preparation.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in SQL, VBA, and R/Python preferred. Experience in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing is a plus.
• 2 years of experience with using Tableau as a data visualization software. Experience with Qlikview, Microstrategy, PowerBI will be a plus.
• Demonstrable ability to translate business objectives into an analytical approach, and resulting in back to business benefits.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written), with proven ability to tailor the communication to different levels based on the seniority of target audience.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, and independence.
• Established understanding of operational risk management within a financial services environment
• Good knowledge of the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework and the Principal Risk Types and CFCC function's operational processes would be an advantage.
• Self-driven and independent - ability to operate with minimal guidance
• Personal authority, integrity, and ethics
• Sharp business acumen, including the ability to assess risk
• Excellent inter-personal skills, and multi-cultural awareness

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