Standard Chartered India | Manager Strategy & Governance

Responsibilities

• The role converts portfolio data into actionable insights, maintains effective risk and control disciplines, coordinates governance and assurance activities, and supports timely management decisions.
• The role works with business, risk, operations, finance, compliance, legal, audit and delivery partners to ensure strategies remain effective, documented, controlled and aligned with applicable Bank requirements.
• This is an individual-contributor role with responsibility for forecasting, strategic analysis, governance coordination and controlled execution.
• Strategy development and optimisation: Develop, review and enhance Collections and Recoveries strategies using portfolio performance, customer outcomes, operational capacity and risk indicators.
• Portfolio analytics and management information: Monitor delinquency, roll rates, recoveries, impairment, capacity, productivity and other relevant indicators; identify material trends and root causes.
• Governance and controls: Maintain strategy and governance documentation, approval records, control evidence, issue logs and review calendars.
• Coordinate periodic reviews and ensure exceptions, data-quality concerns and control gaps are escalated, tracked and remediated.
• End to End Cost & Operational Risk Management.
• Cross-functional leadership: Lead workstreams through influence, set clear outcomes and timelines, and promote strong collaboration, client focus and risk discipline.
• Delivery discipline: Establish clear ownership, remove delivery obstacles, challenge constructively and reinforce expected conduct and control standards.
• Capability building: Share analytical, governance and strategy expertise with colleagues and support consistent, sustainable ways of working.
• Thought leadership: Bring forward portfolio, industry and thematic insights that strengthen strategy design, governance decisions and continuous improvement.
• Audit & Assurance Support

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in Collections, Recoveries, Credit Risk, portfolio strategy, governance, analytics or a related financial-services discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in portfolio analysis, management reporting, control governance, stakeholder coordination and delivery of strategic or process change.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in finance, economics, risk management, business, analytics or a related discipline.
• English: professional working proficiency, written and spoken.

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