GMO Regulatory Ops BRM (UK /Singapore)

About the role

We're looking for a Director, Global Markets Regulatory Operations Business Risk Manager to strengthen the risk and control environment across Regulatory Operations. In this role, you'll partner with Operations, Business, Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams to identify, assess, and mitigate operational and conduct risks. You'll ensure robust governance, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and effective control oversight in a complex and dynamic operating environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide risk oversight across Global Markets Regulatory Operations, including transaction reporting, regulatory controls, reconciliations, and exception management.
• Support the design, review, and enhancement of risk and control frameworks, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and business priorities.
• Lead and coordinate risk assessments, control reviews, and read-across analysis of internal and external events.
• Manage and support incident response, issue remediation, and escalation activities, ensuring timely communication and resolution.
• Act as a key contact for internal audits, regulatory reviews, and assurance activities, coordinating responses and tracking actions to closure.
• Drive governance activities, including risk reporting, committee materials, management information, and issue tracking.
• Partner with stakeholders to strengthen risk awareness, embed a strong control culture, and share lessons learned from incidents and reviews.
• Support operational resilience, business continuity, and third-party risk initiatives impacting Regulatory Operations.
• Ensure effective implementation of policy, procedural, and control changes into business-as-usual operations.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Operational Risk Management, Risk & Control Management, or Business Risk Management within Financial Services.
• Deep understanding of Regulatory Operations, regulatory reporting, and control oversight frameworks.
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory reviews, issue remediation, and governance forums.
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across business, operations, and control functions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess risk, identify themes, and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience within Global Markets, Capital Markets Operations, or Regulatory Reporting environments (desirable).
• Knowledge of operational resilience, business continuity, and regulatory change programmes (desirable).

What we're looking for

• A collaborative team player who builds strong partnerships.
• Someone who demonstrates courage, integrity, and sound judgement.
• A proactive problem-solver who can navigate ambiguity and drive outcomes.
• A continuous learner with a passion for improving processes and controls.

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.

Our purpose—to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity—and our brand promise—to be here for good—are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviors:

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits to support 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), combined with minimum global standards for annual and public holidays (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 self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture to support growth, with opportunities to reskill, upskill, and access physical, virtual, and digital learning.
• An inclusive and values-driven organisation that embraces and celebrates unique diversity across teams, business functions, and geographies.