- To create "leadership space" for the Chief Executive by supporting the CEO-driven initiatives and obligations. Support the CEO South & Southern Africa to co-ordinate the development and delivery of the overall country strategy across Southern Africa Cluster, delivering an integrated plan across the business and functions and balancing strategy, financial performance, people and talent, risk management, business conduct, governance, and stakeholder management. The incumbent will be responsible for administratively supporting the effective dispensing of the CEO and governance responsibilities by ensuring that relevant data analytics, information and other resources are compiled to facilitate decision making and effective engagements.
- The Incumbent will be the Secretary to the Country Management Team meeting and therefore will be responsible for maintaining accurate record of proceedings and ensuring follow up of agreed actions to closure.
- The incumbent must be thorough in putting together high quality documents for stakeholder engagement both internally and externally.
- Proactive
- Good writing skills
- Diligent
- Curious
- Data Management skills
- Support the CEO to effectively communicate the Group's global strategy, priorities and objectives in a local context to all staff.
- Support the CEO to facilitate the development of a consolidated country strategy in collaboration with the Business and Functions ensuring alignment with Regional Corporate Plan and Group objectives. This involves leading the country business strategy development process, challenging the segment and product heads, raising issues and working to reach agreement, ensuring alignment of the support functions and that they are adequately equipped and "Fit For Purpose", then supporting the required investment requests and their implementation. Similarly, to ensure that this is achieved within the Southern Africa Cluster.
- Support the CEO to develop and implement an effective country plan that supports operational resilience and the delivery of the consolidated country strategy, including people, premises, technology and behaviours. Ensure that the country plan is aligned with the country's short, medium and longer term aspirations. Similarly ensure that this is achieved within the Southern Africa Cluster.
Provide a support role to the Country CEO to:
- Drive the business agenda in the country and bring alignment across the business and functions by working with the segment and product heads to maximise and protect franchise value and resolve issues.
- Identify with the business key client relationships for the CEO to sponsor, including driving business with sovereign relationships.
- Champion and support network and cross-border business initiatives aimed at maximising total Group franchise value, maintaining neutrality as to where transactions are booked.
- Obtain the consolidated country financial performance through the following activities:
- Monitoring the country balance sheet, including liquidity management and efficient use of capital
- Facilitate One Bank collaboration amongst Corporate & Institutional Clients, Financial Markets and Transaction Banking
- Challenge business performance and aspiration relative to local and sub-regional competition
- Support the country CEO in driving business with sovereign relationships
- Ensure alignment of business budgets and targets with balance sheet considerations, supporting infrastructure (people, systems and property) and strategy and operating with Risk appetite.
- Oversight of prudent cost management
- Conduct Agenda : Incumbent will be the Country and Southern Africa Conduct Co-ordinator in collaboration with CFCC and AME Regional Conduct Lead.
- Performance Scorecards - Incumbent will monitor, prepare and validate the South African and Southern African consolidated scorecards as required
- Champion and act as a role model of the Group's values and culture in the country.
- Support the CEO in his oversight, guidance and support to Country CEOs within the Southern Africa Cluster. This will involve assisting them to resolve or mitigate material country risks and issues.
- Support the CEO to ensure an integrated, One Bank approach to people and talent management across the business and functions that facilitates cross-functional development as appropriate.
- Work with CABM, HR and the CEO to improve and drive employee engagement throughout the branch.
- Support the CEO in his role as the country risk control owner under the Group's risk management framework for strategic risk in the following areas:
- Ensuring that all material risks, including all risk types (e.g., credit, operational, liquidity, reputational, market, country etc) which affect the country franchise are properly monitored, managed and where necessary escalated to appropriate individuals and relevant committees, as well as the Regional CEO, in accordance with the Group's risk management framework.
- Provide input into risk appetite, risk limits and risk acceptance for the country and challenge country and regional risk control owners where appropriate.
- Anticipate risks and issues likely to have a material impact on the operations of the Group within the country and seek to manage or mitigate such risks and issues.
Provide Support to the CEO in carrying out his governance responsibilities involving:
- Support the implementation and maintenance of robust structures to support effective corporate governance including responsibility for the CMT Secretariat and ensuring annual effectiveness reviews across various committees are performed.
- Providing report compilation, data analysis and other related support to the CEO to enable him to have oversight across the business and all functions, entities and operations in South Africa /Southern Africa, ensuring compliance with the highest standards of regulatory conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws, other applicable laws (e.g., laws governing securities activities, company law) and anti-money laundering regulations and guidelines.
- Be conversant with the Group's objectives and the expectations of both the home (FCA/PRA) and host (SARB/PA/STRATE/FSB) regulators when overseeing the Group's operations in the country and when engaging with regulators and support the CEO to meet all relevant obligations.
- As Country Conduct Champion, support the embedding of the Group's values and code of conduct in country to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture.
- Support the maintenance of an effective country organisation structure, management team, risk management framework, systems and infrastructure to monitor, direct and control the working of the business and all functions, entities and operations in the country. This includes ensuring the effective execution of the Group's governance structure; committees (e.g., Country [CMT]; Country Risk Committee; Country Operational Risk Committee; Country Asset & Liability Committee (ALCO)); and policies and procedures.
- Support the CEO to ensure that the business and all functions prepare, test and regularly update Business Continuity Plans and when necessary, invoke the Country Crisis Management Plan and/or Business Continuity Plans. Maintain the same for the CEO's office.
- 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.
- Lead the South Africa branch to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Country CEO's in Southern Africa, Regional CEO AME, CMT in South and Southern Africa
- Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in South Africa. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats);
- Tertiary education; degree equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years business experience, ideally gained within a Corporate & Institutional banking environment.
- Strong business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership capability, excellent interpersonal skills, multicultural awareness and sensitivity.
- Broad knowledge of domestic and international banking practices. Frontline experience in a banking environment would be an advantage.
- Ability to relate to and communicate with people at all levels. People leader experience would be an advantage.
- Ability to network and manage a matrix organisation structure i.e. to balance the differing objectives of the business and functions and ensure that the solution is in the best interests of the sub-region and Group overall.
- Good understanding or awareness of regulatory compliance and involvement of making informed and collaborative decisions on regulatory matters.
- Good understanding or awareness of key credit, market and operational risks and more broader the Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Manage Conduct
- Manage Risk
- Strategy and Business Model (SIF)
- Market Knowledge (SIF)
- Products and Processes
- Business Partnering
- Manage Projects
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- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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
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