Director, Digital Assets Risk
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About the Role
Standard Chartered Bank is seeking an experienced Director, Digital Assets Risk to serve as the Group’s second-line risk SME for Digital Assets. The role involves leading the evolution of the Digital Assets Risk Management Approach, providing oversight and expert guidance across key risk types.
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Responsibilities
- Influence the Group’s Digital Assets strategy, ensuring alignment with risk frameworks, policies, standards, risk appetite and governance requirements
- Provide regulatory interpretation and risk assessments for Digital Asset initiatives, products and investments
- Engage with industry stakeholders and emerging technologies to enhance risk understanding and support innovation
- Assess risks associated with blockchain technologies, tokenomics and Digital Asset ecosystems, ensuring effective mitigation strategies
- Guide the ongoing development of the Group’s Digital Assets Risk Management Approach (DARMA)
- Advise stakeholders on Digital Asset activities, client engagements and business initiatives within approved risk parameters
- Support stress testing and scenario analysis related to Digital Asset exposures
- Provide timely risk guidance to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and internal requirements
- Oversee the identification, governance and effectiveness of processes within the Digital Assets Risk Management function
- Review and challenge the Digital Assets risk profile and related control environment
- Lead Digital Assets risk assessments and provide expert challenge across key banking risk disciplines
- Review and challenge enhanced due diligence assessments for Digital Asset clients, products, partnerships and investments
Requirements
- Strong academic background
- Over 15 years' experience in banking or financial services with expertise in Capital, Liquidity, Traded and Credit Risk
- Experience in emerging digital technologies and Digital Asset ecosystems
- Strong knowledge of blockchain technologies, tokens, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins and cryptocurrencies
- Proven understanding of Digital Asset risks across multiple risk types including Reputational, Traded/Market, Treasury/Capital & Liquidity, Operational, Technology, Cyber Security and Credit Risk
- Experience across banking, fintech and complex financial services environments
- Strong risk management, governance and Board level communication capabilities
- Understanding of global regulatory and supervisory frameworks impacting Digital Assets
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills
- Experience preparing papers for senior leadership and governance committees
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Job Summary
- We are seeking an experienced Director, Digital Assets (DA) Risk to serve as the Group’s second line risk Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Digital Assets.
- This role will lead the evolution of the Digital Assets Risk Management Approach (DARMA), providing oversight, challenge, and expert guidance across key risk types including Reputational, Traded/Market, Treasury/Capital & Liquidity, Operational, Technology, Cyber Security and Credit Risk.
- The successful candidate will help shape the Group's Digital Assets strategy, ensure compliance with regulatory expectations, and strengthen the risk framework governing Digital Asset activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Influence the Group’s Digital Assets strategy, ensuring alignment with risk frameworks, policies, standards, risk appetite and governance requirements.
- Provide regulatory interpretation and risk assessments for Digital Asset initiatives, products and investments.
- Engage with industry stakeholders and emerging technologies to enhance risk understanding and support innovation.
- Assess risks associated with blockchain technologies, tokenomics and Digital Asset ecosystems, ensuring effective mitigation strategies.
- Guide the ongoing development of the Group’s Digital Assets Risk Management Approach (DARMA).
- Advise stakeholders on Digital Asset activities, client engagements and business initiatives within approved risk parameters.
- Support stress testing and scenario analysis related to Digital Asset exposures.
- Provide timely risk guidance to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and internal requirements.
- Oversee the identification, governance and effectiveness of processes within the Digital Assets Risk Management function.
- Review and challenge the Digital Assets risk profile and related control environment.
- Ensure appropriate oversight of risk management activities and reporting frameworks.
- Promote a culture of continuous learning, innovation and collaboration.
Key Stakeholders
- Internal: Digital Assets Centre of Excellence, Cluster Management Teams, Business Heads, Group and Country Risk Framework Owners (RFOs), Digital Assets SMEs, Group Internal Audit.
- External: Home and host regulators including the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), External auditors.
Skills and Experience
- Digital Assets Risk Management
- Traded Risk
- Credit Risk
- Operational & Cyber Security Risk
- Reputational Risk
- Compliance
- Treasury Risk
- Risk Governance and Frameworks
- Stakeholder Management and Influencing
- Programme and Project Management
Qualifications
- Strong academic background.
- Over 15 years' experience in banking or financial services with expertise in Capital, Liquidity, Traded and Credit Risk.
- Experience in emerging digital technologies and Digital Asset ecosystems.
- Strong knowledge of blockchain technologies, tokens, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins and cryptocurrencies.
- Proven understanding of Digital Asset risks across multiple risk types including Reputational, Traded/Market, Treasury/Capital & Liquidity, Operational, Technology, Cyber Security and Credit Risk.
- Experience across banking, fintech and complex financial services environments.
- Strong risk management, governance and Board level communication capabilities.
- Understanding of global regulatory and supervisory frameworks impacting Digital Assets.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills.
- Experience preparing papers for senior leadership and governance committees.
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.
- Our purpose: to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.
- Our brand promise: to be here for good.
What we offer
- 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), 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 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.
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