Business Manager, Securities Services & Digital Assets

Job Summary

Support the Global Head of Securities Services and Global Head of Digital Assets in driving strategic execution, financial discipline and operational effectiveness across SS & DA. The role translates enterprise and business strategy into executable operating and financial plans, connects strategy, budgeting, capacity and change delivery, and provides forward-looking insight to support executive decisions. Acting as a trusted adviser and central coordination point, the role enables delivery against bank-wide priorities while maintaining strong performance, governance, risk management and control.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning and delivery of SS & DA strategic initiatives, documenting, translating business and cluster strategies into executable roadmaps, milestones and in-market outcomes.

• Support initiatives linked to new clients, products and geographic expansion, coordinating process, technology, people and control enablers for scalable and sustainable growth.

• Specific to financial management and performance management

• Own end-to-end budgeting and forecasting for the SS business and central Digital Assets function, covering headcount, run costs and investment spend.

• Drive cost discipline through variance analysis, productivity tracking, cost-to-serve analysis, benefits tracking and identification of optimisation opportunities.

• Monitor demand, capacity, and resource utilisation to ensure delivery of service commitments and operational resilience.

• Specific to delivery of the people agenda

• Support delivery of early careers programmes, performance and compensation, talent and succession planning, D&I priorities and annual Certified Persons review processes.

• Partner with frontline leaders on performance reviews, ensuring a transparent correlation between bonus and scorecard score.

• Drive consistent, timely, and high-quality communication of business priorities, transformation initiatives, and governance requirements.

• Act as a central coordination point between SS & DA Business Management leadership and key partners including Finance, Technology, Risk, HR, and business units.

• Drive alignment on planning assumptions, financial commitments, performance targets, and change priorities across the bank.

Motivations

• Enterprise impact: Energised by converting complex business strategy into coordinated execution and measurable outcomes across markets and functions.

• Complex problem-solving: Motivated by resolving ambiguity, balancing trade-offs and connecting financial, operational, technology, people and control considerations.

• Performance and continuous improvement: Driven by transparent performance management, disciplined delivery and practical improvements that strengthen client experience, efficiency and resilience.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience in banking, financial services or a comparable industry.

• Demonstrated experience in business management, financial planning, cost management, strategic execution and complex cross-functional delivery.

• Experience operating across markets and coordinating stakeholders in multiple countries; prior exposure to Securities Services or Digital Assets is advantageous.

• Proven ability to deliver large, complex and cross-border initiatives, manage ambiguity and resolve or appropriately escalate material issues.

• Outstanding written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to produce high-quality executive reporting and influence senior stakeholders.

• PMP or an equivalent project-management qualification is advantageous, but not mandatory.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Priority Skills

• Strategic Planning & Execution

• Financial management, budgeting and cost discipline

• Change and project management

• Operational risk and control

• Stakeholder management

• Cross functional collaboration

• Communication and presentation

• Data analysis and management information

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.

• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.

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