How To Apply for Ongoing Employment Opportunities 2020/2023 at Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria.

Standard Chartered remained a shareholder of First Bank of Nigeria until 1996. Standard Chartered re-entered Nigeria in 1999 and opened to customers on 15 September 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank Plc, headquartered in United Kingdom.

Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria – We attract talented individuals. Not only can they give you the benefit of their experience, they also reveal a closer, more personal look at the wide range of global opportunities we offer. At the core of the Group’s people strategy is our focus on employee engagement. Engagement is a key driver of productivity and performance, which creates the foundation of our performance culture. We encourage and focus on the behaviours that bring out the very best from every employee, assessing their performance not just on results but on how those results were achieved. To further embed these behaviours we have a remuneration programme in place, carefully designed to incentivise our employees to live our values every day.

Job ID: 2200004593

Location: Nigeria

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Permanent

Job: Operations

• Develop and lead the delivery in the AME region of the HR Risk roadmap, priorities and milestone plan, aligned to the standards / requirements in support of the Group’s strategy and in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (“ERMF”).
• Keep abreast of developments in the risk management landscape and apply learning to HR’s risk management practices. Coordinate with counterparts in other functions / business lines across the AME region to ensure a consistent, best practice and collaborative approach.
• Play a leadership role on regulatory projects and change initiatives, ensuring appropriate risk management strategies are in place.
• Positively influence and ensure effectiveness of HR Non-Financial Risk Team Meetings (NFRTM) in AME, upholding the integrity of HR risk / return decisions.
• Continuously evaluate and provide clear, balanced advice and leadership to senior management on the HR risk implications of business strategies and programmes, and the cost benefit analysis of risk remediation.

• Ensure the HR Process Universe is well understood and embed process ownership across AME.
• Ensure there is a clear articulation of the framework for managing the First and Second Line activities of HR.
• Lead the review of existing risk-based processes and the development of new risk-based processes where gaps have been identified. Lead the alignment of these processes to HR policies, ensuring the revised suite of policies clearly articulate the roles and responsibilities of both the First and Second Lines of defence.
• Act as an adviser over the aggregate level of risk in HR AME that arises from end to end processes. Lead the design of effective controls and the systematic monitoring of process control effectiveness and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Continuously monitor and provide leadership and oversight of HR’s Non-Financial risk profile and the effectiveness of the risk mitigation in place. Provide a comprehensive view of (1) the material risks facing HR and (2) the material HR risks facing the Bank, ensuring that risk assessment and reporting is comprehensive and accurate.
• Lead updates to senior HR management.
• Ensure that all members of the HR function across AME are aware of their risk management responsibilities through leadership, communication and training.
• Act as the primary liaison between Country Operational Risk and HR, ensuring effective First and Second Line of defence coordination and integrated risk assessment.
• Lead the implementation of the ERMF across HR in the AME region, ensuring it is effectively embedded across all product areas (including HR Process Universe, controls and control effectiveness, policies and policy assurance, process risk assessments).
• Ensure that risks are properly assessed, and control cost / benefit decisions are made transparently and controlled in accordance with the Group’s standards and Risk Tolerance.
• Collaborate with colleagues across HR to ensure continuous improvement in HR to strengthen the control environment.
• Lead Policy and Standard owners in creating, maintaining and ensuring the effective deployment across AME of Group HR Policies and Standards. Ensure alignment to and compliance with policy governance standards.
• Lead the roll out of process risk assessments, scenario analysis and stress testing for HR.
• Drive and promote an effective and exemplary risk and control culture (aligned to the Group’s risk appetite), with appropriate escalation.

• Ensure that resources and infrastructure are adequate to support the management of risk within HR.
• Drive an environment of performance, collaboration and compliance, to ensure issues are raised and blockages are resolved in a timely manner.
• Champion and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture.
• Actively contribute to and raise the overall professional competence of the broader HR function.
• Provide forward-looking leadership to ensure HR Risk is positioned to meet the challenges of the future.

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of 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 teams in West Africa 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.

• Selected partners, including CEOs.
• Regional and Country Finance Heads.
• Function Heads.
• Country SORO for all countries in West Africa Cluster.
• BORMs for all countries in West Africa Cluster.
• Country Audit and Compliance Team.
• Country CIOs.
• Partners aligned to [product, segment, or function] in Risk, Legal & Compliance, Finance and Group Technology and Operations.
• All Staff with FCS responsibilities across West Africa.

• First Degree B.Sc in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or similar Degree.
• Desirable – Professional certifications in Accounting, Professional Memberships in ICAN, ACCA.
• Work experience in financial control / operational risk functions of, internal audit of FIs or external audit from Big 4 firms.
• Cross team collaboration and leadership experience skills – proactive engagement with various units across different geographies.
• Languages: English, French.

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