Ngân hàng Standard Chartered Việt Nam - SC Bank ★ 4.2

Job Summary

Join our dedicated team at Standard Chartered as an Associate Director, Conduct, Financial Crime and Conduct Risk (CFCR) Advisory, where you will play a pivotal role in reinforcing a sustainable compliance framework that upholds the highest standards of regulatory and ethical conduct. This role is instrumental in ensuring that our commitment of being “Here for Good" is realised by embedding a culture of appropriate conduct across all business activities within the Group.Operating as an independent second line risk control function, you will deliver robust risk management and compliance oversight. Your expert advice and constructive challenge will enable the Group to navigate complex regulatory landscapes effectively, ensuring fair outcomes for our clients and sustainable business practices. A key part of your responsibilities will be maintaining strong regulatory relationships, supporting dialogue with regulators, and working collaboratively with senior business leaders to align compliance objectives with overall business goals. You will act as a trusted advisor within the Group, leading timely identification, escalation, and mitigation of compliance risks to uphold the firm’s risk tolerances.

This position is based in Hanoi, Viet Nam, and offers a full-time office working arrangement, contributing significantly to the global standards that underpin our business culture.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Support and implement the vision, strategy, direction and leadership for CFCR Vietnam teams, consistent with Global Head, CFCR (“Global Head”) vision and strategy for the CFCR unction and in support of the Bank’s strategic direction and growth aspirations.
• Promote the culture and practice of compliance with compliance standards (including conducting business within regulatory requirements, and to high ethical standards) within the Bank and embed a Here for good culture and the Group Code of Conduct.
  
  

Business

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business model 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 (FM, Client Coverage) 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 CFCR advice, analysis (and challenge when appropriate) including product design, new business initiatives, bespoke projects, remedial activities (including nature, scale and rigour of past business reviews), and transactional advice.
• 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.
• Support the resolution of competing requirements between regulations (i.e. between AML regulations and data privacy/bank secrecy or information security regulations.)
• 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
• Promoting the culture and practice of global standards to the business, while managing local requirements
  
  

Regulatory & Business 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
  

Key stakeholders

• State Bank of Vietnam, Ministry of Finance, State Securities Commission, Vietnam Securities Depository,
• Country Business/Function Heads FM/Operations/Client Coverages/IMOs)
• Head of CFCR Advisory
• Country Head of CFCR
• Country Head of FCC
• Country Head of CFCR Governance and team
• CEO
• Regional CFCR
• Risk
• Internal Audit
• Legal
• Group Product Compliance
  
  

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Vietnam, CFCR team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats

Qualifications

• Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications; i.e. standards required for roles
• Licenses and Certifications/accreditations; i.e. internal/externally required
• Professional Memberships; i.e. required for roles for continuous development/ improvement/awareness of current practices etc
• Bank training; i.e. mandatory & developmental - role specific, and regulatory/compliance bank wide & role specific,
• Languages; i.e. those required for roles
  
  

Skills And Experience

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• Solve Problems
• Collaborate
• Communicate
• Deliver Sustainably
• Achieve Results
  
  

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Universal Technical Competencies
• Manage Conduct
• Manage Risk
• Manage People
  
  

Compliance Technical Competencies

• Compliance Policies and Standards
• Compliance Advisory
• Compliance Review and FCC Assurance
• Surveillance (including Screening and Monitoring)
• Investigations
• Compliance Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Liaison
• Manage Change
• Manage Projects
  
  

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.