Head, Conduct Financial Crime Risk Advisory, Corporate

Job ID: 39362

Location: Karachi, PK

Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 15 Sept 2025

Job Summary

Supporting the Head, Conduct Financial Crime Risk (CFCR), Pakistan and the Regional Head, CFCR Advisory, Coporate & Investment Banking (CIB), in managing all regulatory, conduct, financial crime and compliance risks relating to CIB in Pakistan, and managing & leading the CFCR Advisory, Pakistan team, aligning this to the vision and strategy of the function, the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), and delegation of authority documents where relevant.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive high standards of regulatory compliance and deliver key priorities and initiatives, aligned to the Pakistan CIB performance scorecard.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the CIB business models and strategy in order to provide substantive oversight support and challenge in order to enable appropriate and sustainable CFCR outcomes.
• Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all key business and functional stakeholders that is based on trust, capability, and integrity, providing timely, responsive and quality conduct, financial crime & compliance-related advice and guidance to enable the business and functions to meet achieve their strategic tactical objectives.
• Provide conduct, financial crime and compliance-related advice, analysis (and challenge when appropriate) in relation to CIB businesses, including product design, new business initiatives, bespoke projects, remedial activities (including nature, scale and rigour of past business reviews), and transactional advice (where relevant/required).
• Provide robust challenge to senior management and all relevant business stakeholders where activities are outside risk tolerance appetite, escalating as necessary, until appropriate oversight and ownership is achieved including actions and plans to address any remedial action needed to come back within risk tolerance appetite.
• Work closely with the business and its operational teams to provide timely advice to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations and support the transition to pro-active and pre-emptive CFCR risk mitigation.
• Establish and maintain risk-based compliance frameworks and a programme for monitoring and assuring compliance that supports the transition to pro-active and pre-emptive compliance and conduct risk mitigation
• Act under delegation from the respective Risk Framework Owners for the principal risk types of Compliance, Conduct and FCC in discharging the responsibilities contained in the ERMF relating to CIB businesses to the extent that CFCR advisory is the appropriate second line risk owner.
• The role holder is not responsible for CFCR first line processes unless specifically delegated by and/or agreed with the group process owner. This includes CFCR processes operated to manage risks in CIB businesses such as name screening or transaction monitoring.
• The role holder is not responsible to ensure that CIB and CFCR process owners agree their respective hand offs, which ought to be documented in a service level agreement.
• Provide governance and oversight over the implementation of CFCR related policies and procedures relevant to CIB businesses (to enable compliance with such policies and procedures).
• Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
• Stimulate an environment where forward planning, prioritisation, deadline management and streamlined workflows and collaborative, inclusive yet effective and efficient work practices are the norm.
• Ensure proactive and timely identification, assessment, advice and dissemination of evolving regulatory changes/practices and associated risks, and proactive engagement in regulatory reform.
• Propose control effectiveness and efficiency improvements and simplifications where appropriate.
• Within the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), establish and maintain appropriate risk based CFCR framework for identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, mitigating and reporting compliance (including regulatory and financial crime) risks across CIB businesses.

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 wellbeing.

• 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.