Job Summary

Lead - Markets Onboarding Regulatory Demand” is responsible for overseeing the intake, triage, scoping, and transition of regulatory change initiatives affecting SCB’s financial markets onboarding. The role is pivotal in linking regulatory developments and obligations to internal implementation programs, ensuring efficient prioritization, resource alignment, and successful execution across business, risk, legal, and technology teams.

This role requires expertise in global financial markets regulations, a strong understanding of regulatory onboarding process, and the ability to translate regulatory drivers into tangible, prioritized implementation demand across a large enterprise. The successful candidate will be highly collaborative, structured, and capable of leading governance, planning, and execution of regulatory intake within a global regulatory change portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Regulatory Demand Intake, Qualification, and Triage
•    Serve as the central point of contact for inbound regulatory requirements affecting onboarding area of financial markets infrastructure.
•    Maintain and lead regulatory demand intake process, coordinating with Compliance, Lega and Business COOs / Delegates.
•    Perform high-level impact assessments of new and evolving regulations (e.g., SEC, CFTC, EMIR, MiFID II, UMR, SFTR) to identify:
•    Jurisdictional scope and effective dates
•    Impacted legal entities and products.
•    Key control, technology, or documentation implications
•    Develop and maintain a regulatory demand pipeline, capturing all intake items, business sponsor alignment, expected impact levels, and proposed timelines.

Business
•    Responsible for adherence to Bank’s policies & procedures, risk management, operational excellence, and governance applicable to the business function.
•    Focuses on benefits realization for the work delivered by the squads. 
•    Responsible for ensuring Benefits and Metrics are defined, agreed, tracked and reported.

Processes
•    Once scoped and approved, oversee the handover of regulatory demand into project execution, ensuring:
o    Project managers are fully briefed on regulatory drivers and scoping outcomes.
o    Resource planning and budget allocation are aligned with regulatory delivery timelines.
o    Business and technology workstreams are coordinated with regulatory milestones

Risk Management
•    Identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks related to regulatory implementation. 
•    Investigates potential risks and compliance issues within the Bank.
•    Identify process gaps or inefficiencies in the current onboarding model and propose control enhancements and automation solutions.
•    Ensure proactive identification of delivery risks or capacity constraints and lead the resolution in collaboration with business COO’s.

The Ideal Candidate:

•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. 
•    Min 8+ years of experience in financial services, with significant exposure to regulatory change, compliance strategy, or financial markets transformation.
•    Deep knowledge of end to end financial markets onboarding operations and product classes (e.g., derivatives, fixed income, FX, structured products).
•    Experience managing regulatory implementation programs (e.g., MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR REFIT, UMR, etc).
•    Familiarity with the global financial regulatory landscape (SEC, CFTC, ESMA, FCA, MAS, HKMA, USPR, DF, etc.).
•    Understanding of trade reporting, margining, client classification, transaction controls, recordkeeping, and governance requirements
•    Strong Stakeholder Management

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.