Associate Director, Ics Risk

Job ID: 36703

Location: Bukit Jalil KL, MY

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 11 Aug 2025

**Job Summary**
- The role is to perform risk and control activities for the Cyber Operations domain. This team provides risk management, risk governance and assurance services, as well as advocating and imparting lessons and good practice to shape the design and implementation of cyber security controls.**This role will be based at Chennai / Kuala Lumpur**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Perform all risk and control activities related to all people, processes and assets within the Cyber Operations function.
- Act as the confidant to the ‘Process Owner(s)’ responsible for developing, prioritizing and implementing controls.
- Drive compliance with the Bank’s risk frameworks and policies
- Deliver risk focused, timely and re-performable deep dive reviews
- Support design and maintenance of internal processes that allow to dynamically monitor risk as well as effectively mitigate identified gaps.
- Maintain Cyber Operations controls and corresponding metrics.
- Provide timely and accurate risk & control MI to the management within risk management systems and repositories.
- Support stakeholders in defining remediation actions to address identified control weaknesses as well as track remediation, check and challenge delivery status.
- Support the delivery of the Conduct Risk Management plan.

**Strategy**
Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy as well as Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) strategy and model appropriate to the role.**Risk Management**
- Support Process owners in the execution of their risk management accountabilities.
- Work with other control assurance teams to drive efficiency, effectiveness and reduce duplication
- Perform review of the control self-assessment outcomes, control testing results and adequacy of the related remediation actions.
- Provide robust challenge and escalation to senior management to ensure activities achieve risk reduction.
- Support activities related to control design, assessment, testing processes and drive continuous improvement.
- Support liaison with Group Internal Audit and any third party or regulatory inspections.

**Governance**
Awareness and understanding of the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- 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.
- Lead the [not applicable] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: The Right Environment.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**
- Global Head Cyber Security
- Cyber Security MT and Cyber Security Service Heads
- Operational, Technology and Cyber Risk (OTCR)
- Group Internal Audit
- Internal Control Testing teams

**Other Responsibilities**
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CS Risk&Control Team ; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures;**Skills and Experience**
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in managing risk related the Threat detection and Prevention, Malware Analysis in a banking or Financial Institute environment.
- A very good knowledge and hands on experience in network security, encryption, intrusion detection, and incident response
- Deep understanding of endpoint, server, network and data security technologies and controls.
- Experience in Cybersecurity Risk Management
- Excellent written and oral and presentation and communication skills
- Experience in writing assurance / risk assessment reports is an added advantage
- Good understanding of regulatory compliance, information and cyber security risk and controls
- Ability to collect and analyse data, establish facts and make recommendations in written and oral for
- Optional Skills:
- Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

**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 t