Standard Chartered India | Head, Regulatory Reporting Technology

Responsibilities

• We are seeking an experienced professional to lead our global Regulatory Reporting Technology team, driving the end-to-end technology solutions that underpin our Markets regulatory reporting framework.
• This role involves full accountability for the technology strategy, architecture, and lifecycle management of key regulatory reporting platforms including FM-SHARK, FM_REG_RECON, ORCID, Reporting Lake, SUPDASHBOARD, TRACK, and UTI Services.
• As Head of Regulatory Reporting Technology, you will champion the development and execution of innovative, resilient, and compliant technology solutions that ensure our adherence to global and local regulatory requirements.
• This pivotal role requires a strategic vision to streamline fragmented processes, automate controls, and introduce observability and analytics to enhance transparency and operational governance.
• Develop and oversee execution of a comprehensive multi-year strategy and investment roadmap aligned with regulatory priorities and enterprise data standards.
• Manage full lifecycle of regulatory reporting applications, ensuring their evolution to meet regulatory obligations and business needs with high availability and compliance.
• Deliver trusted, timely operational and regulatory insights with clarity on metrics, data lineage, and controls to enable effective decision-making and regulatory confidence.
• Drive technology modernisation initiatives focused on reducing manual intervention, integrating systems, and enhancing automation and observability across the reporting ecosystem.
• Lead efforts to embed self-service reporting, AI-enabled analytics, and natural language query capabilities while ensuring robust governance and security.
• Ensure operational resilience through proactive capacity planning, access control, change governance, and continuous control maturity improvements to reduce reporting risk.
• Foster strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and external vendors to ensure alignment on regulatory requirements, technology roadmaps, and risk mitigation.
• Driving continuous improvements in reporting accuracy, exception handling, auditability, and compliance will be key motivators, along with a passion for shaping future-ready platforms through data standardisation, control automation, advanced analytics, and ethical AI application.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess extensive expertise in Post Trade Reporting, Management Information (MI), and data analytics, demonstrating a deep understanding of regulatory reporting frameworks and technology platforms.
• Practical experience in developing and scaling self-service reporting and data visualisation tools is essential, including proficiency in leveraging AI-enabled analytics to enhance decision support and reporting accuracy.
• Proven track record in formulating and executing technology strategies that foster innovation while ensuring operational resilience and rigorous control adherence is highly desirable.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and portfolio management skills are critical, enabling the orchestration of diverse priorities and vendor relations to achieve sustainable technology delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering regulatory reporting technology in live production environments is essential, encompassing trade repository reporting, data reconciliation, exception management, and audit evidencing.
• Educational qualifications include a bachelor's degree as a minimum, with a master's degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification preferred.
• Additional certifications in analytics, business intelligence, data governance, AI analytics, financial markets technology, or enterprise architecture will be advantageous.
• Proficiency in additional regional languages is beneficial to effectively engage with global teams and stakeholders.
• Proven leadership capability in managing global teams and sizeable portfolios of technology investment and vendor relationships is required, with demonstrated success in delivering platform modernisation, resilience enhancements, and AI-driven insights.
• Fluency in English is mandatory.

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is an international banking group headquartered in London, with a strong focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It was formed in 1969 through the merger of Standard Bank and The Chartered Bank.

Its Indian global business services centres hire finance professionals for financial control, stress testing, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Present in India for over 150 years, with global business services centres in Bengaluru and Chennai