Control Room Compliance Officer recruitment

Job Description

To support the Control Room in ensuring that Standard Chartered Group has controls to manage its various product lines and businesses to identify, manage and escalate conflicts of interest to protect and enhance the reputation of the Standard Chartered Group with its customers and regulators and to avoid significant financial loss.

Key Roles Responsibilities

Control Room Activities
* Provides a pro-active control room service to the various stakeholders in relation to regulatory, reputational and ethical matters, relating to Standard Chartered Groups' activities. This includes assessing transactions for potential conflicts, providing guidance on Information Walls, managing the Watch and Restricted lists, reviewing equity positions, providing assistance on research related matters, administering the Group Personal Account Dealing policy and procedures and managing the Outside Business Interest procedures.
* Assist in the development and maintenance of Control Room policies and procedures designed to eliminate or minimise the risk of breaches of regulatory requirements and regulatory expectations and of damage to Standard Chartered Group's reputation.
* Provides a fast and proactive turnaround to the business.
* Ascertain, apply and promote to relevant stakeholders best Group practices in the area of Control Room matters.
* Work effectively and proactively with other compliance and business teams to manage in-country and business-wide regulatory and product risks.
* If enforcement is necessary, ensures timely and appropriate action is taken.

Knowledge development and information management
* Ensures the dissemination of appropriate training and information to the WB Compliance community, with an emphasis on equipping local teams to manage WB risk.
* Ensures appropriate reporting of material issues to WB Compliance senior management.

Partnership
* Develops a strong professional relationship across the Group.
* Actively engages relevant stakeholders - local teams, regulators, risk functions and compliance colleagues to continually value-add to the overall risk management framework.

Qualifications Skills

Technical Knowledge
* Possess advanced technical knowledge in conflict management, information walls, market abuse, insider dealing, investment research and regulatory disclosure obligations.
* Has a core understanding of variations in such laws and regulations across various jurisdictions.

Compliance skills
* Core knowledge in risk identification, risk assessment, controls development, training, monitoring and reporting.
* Core experience, shown by demonstrable achievements in the above areas.

Analytical skills
* Core ability to identify and articulate compliance issues.
* Core problem solving and solution finding skills.
* Core ability to carry out data mining and trend analysis.

Communications skills
* Core presentation skills - one-to-one, small group, large group.
* Core ability to provide high quality training programmes, both internally and externally.
* Core ability to provide written information in a clear and concise format (e.g. updates to Compliance Manual, Code of Conduct, and circulation of Compliance Circulars).
* Core ability to use communications channels appropriate to the situation.
* Strong interpersonal skills and dispute resolution skills.

How To Apply

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Closing Dates

The closing date for applications is 03/07/2012. Please note all closing dates are given in Hong Kong time (GMT + 8 hours). We aim to respond to successful applicants within four weeks and will keep a record or your application in our database so that we can contact you when suitable vacancies arise in future.

Diversity Inclusion

Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximise their personal potential.