Principal CFCC CCIB Advisory

Full Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Review and support new business / function markets and / or activities including client journey and restructuring.
• Review and support new and product initiatives including product solutioning, process flow, design and features.

Processes

• Assist with rollout of Group CFCC policies and standards into countries Advise Framework and Policy Management.
• Participate in the review of Group CFCC policies and standards update, where relevant Advise Framework and Policy Management.
• Handle business / function unit queries prior to and during roll-out of new policies and standards Advise Framework and Policy Management.
• Prepare local addendum for relevant Group policies and standards including risk appetite, where applicable.

People and Talent

• Conduct training on new regulations, policies and standards relating to CFCC (i.e. as PO, RFO, CFCC owned risk sub-types or CFCC 2LOD).
• Prepare training packs including adapting existing materials, researching on new topics and familiarisation with new training materials and wider topics.

Risk Management

• Validate risk identification and assessment completed by 1LOD Challenge Risk Identification and Assessment.
• Challenge treatment plan on elevated residual risk Challenge Risk Identification and Assessment.
• Perform 2LOD monitoring outside the scope of CFCC Assurance Monitor Validate, review and independently assure.
• Lead or assist on investigation to ascertain whether a regulatory breach has taken place.
• Work with business / function unit to determine root cause and identify whether there is any systemic issue Challenge.
• Review investigation / incident reports to ensure breach are correctly recorded.

Governance

• Review and support new business / function markets and / or activities including client journey and restructuring Challenge.
• Review and support new and product initiatives including product solutioning, process flow, design and features Challenge.
• Advise of CFCC-related regulations, policies and standards Advise Framework and Policy Management.
• Advise on moderate complexity CFCC-related issues including market materials, transactions / deals, alert escalations and material complaints (high complexity CFCC-related issues are generally escalated to CFCC CoE) Advise Risk decisioning and portfolio management.
• Advise on licensing regime, specifically on complicated licensing scenarios Advise Risk decisioning and portfolio management.
• Complete insourcing / outsourcing assessment for moderate to high complexity scenarios.
• Escalate country issues to regions and / or Group, including COE in accordance with response framework.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Participate in regulatory engagement activities including fronting regulatory applications for new products / business, providing periodic advisory updates, co-ordinating ad-hoc regulatory request and participating in working groups.
• Co-ordinate responses to regulatory enquiries including regulatory surveys, non-financial risk returns and regulatory self-assessments.
• Support regulatory inspections and / or audits on business / functions including advance review, logistic planning, preparing materials / responses, briefing, documentation and follow-up.
• Update internal team and / or regulator on regulatory breach.
• Advise on press releases and external communications prior to issuance by Corporate Affairs.
• 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.

Key Stakeholders

• Head, CFCC, Uganda
• Head, FCC, Uganda
• Regional Head, CFCC Advisory, CCIB, AME
• Heads of Business and Functions in Uganda
• Regional Heads, FCC Centres of Excellence (e.g. Sanctions, ABC, Controls)
• Other Risks and Control Functional Heads (Risk, Finance, COO, Audit, etc)
• Relevant local Regulators

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CFCC Advisory CCIB Uganda team.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor's degree or Post Graduate course in any related field

Languages

• English

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Acumen
• Business Ethics
• Regulatory Environment - Financial Services
• CFCC Policies and Standards
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• CFCC Risk Type Advisory

­About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be 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, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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