Manager, Risk Assessment

Job Summary

• This role could be based in Singapore, Poland, India, and Malaysia. When you start the application process, you will be presented with a drop-down menu showing all countries. Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.
• GIA is an independent function whose primary role is to help the Board and Executive Management to protect the assets, reputation, and sustainability of the Group. GIA will adhere to the Definition of Internal Auditing, the Core Principles for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, Code of Ethics, and the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing published by the Institution of Internal Auditing (IIA). All members of GIA strive to operate as role models for the Group's valued behaviours.
• The GIA Chief Operations Officer (COO)'s team supports the GIA COO in management of the GIA function. The role of Manager, Risk Assessment & Planning Insight (GIA, COO), works within the GIA COO team, to provide analytics, insight, and visualisation to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of GIA risk assessment and planning processes and outcomes. Specifically:
• Aligned to GIA's functional strategy, develop and influence GIA to improve the consistency and quality of reporting through data-led analysis and insight.
• Maintain strong relationships with the GIA Leadership Team to influence/change behaviours to ensure risk assessment is a continuous activity, as opposed to annual/bi-annual input to the planning process. Inspire and engage all stakeholders (MT to every auditor) to develop a continuous improvement mindset for risk assessment, reinforcing its value and purpose.
• Develop the report writing skills and visualisation skills of the team through coaching, mentoring, and training.

Responsibilities

• Awareness of both Bank and GIA strategy to align the outcomes of the Audit Universe, Risk Assessment, and Audit Planning methodology and processes, with the aim of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of GIA's coverage across the Group.
• Awareness of the Group's risk management framework and approach and the role of GIA in the framework.
• Understand the GIA audit methodology and the principal risks impacting the bank.
• Demonstrate flexibility in the risk assessment and audit planning approach to meet the evolving requirements of the risks associated with the audit universe.
• Provide timely, effective, and impactful insights to our Audit Leadership team through data analysis of Risk Assessment and Audit Planning MI (using tools like Power BI and Tableau).
• Develop and implement solutions that enhance awareness and engagement of GIA staff to the methodology, including delivery of training to uplift the quality of risk assessment and audit planning.
• Support the COO team in managing the audit risk generated through risk assessments and audit planning. This will be achieved through development and assessment against clear principles and standards to improve the quality, consistency, and timing of our audit planning.
• Responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling, and mitigating risks to the Group. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them.
• Awareness of policies applicable to all Bank users and specific to GIA. Consult timely with the responsible persons to gain better knowledge of the risks involved with specific process Governance (like data sharing).
• Embed the Group's values and Code of Conduct in Group Internal Audit to ensure that adherence to the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes, and regulations among employees form part of the culture.

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of relevant experience in auditing or risk management backgrounds.
• Strong understanding of risk management framework in financial or banking institutions.
• Strong data analytics and visualisation skills and the use of PowerBI, Tableau, or similar tools (i.e., not just Excel) for storytelling of insights to colleagues.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Education: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Business (e.g., Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Management, Statistics) is preferred.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Data sourcing, wrangling, and analysis
• Data visualisation design and storytelling
• Attention to Detail
• Risk management
• Project management
• Communication Skills (Impact and Influence)

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 well-being.

• 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.

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