Head, Markets Onboarding Reg Due Diligence & Contract Negotiation

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Description

Are you passionate about regulatory excellence, client experience, and operational transformation? Join us as Head of Markets Onboarding – Regulatory Due Diligence & Contract Negotiation , where you will lead the global strategy and execution for regulatory onboarding, due diligence, and trading documentation. You will be the key driver of change at the intersection of regulation, legal risk, and client lifecycle management – ensuring our processes are scalable, efficient, compliant, and client-centric.

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Markets Business & Client Solutions, you will oversee a high-performing global team and work with stakeholders across legal, compliance, sales, technology, and operations to deliver seamless onboarding experiences and ensure we stay ahead of global financial regulations.

Job Summary

This role could be based in UK and Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based

The Markets Business & Client Solutions (BCS) brings together the Global Markets Middle Office Team, Markets Client Solutions, the In-Country Markets Operations and Markets Client Onboarding footprint to foster consistency in client and business face-off across products and geographies.

Reporting directly to the Global Head, Markets Business & Client Solutions, successful will play the role of ‘Markets Contracts & Regulatory Due Diligence’ and will be responsible for

• For developing, executing, and overseeing regulatory onboarding frameworks and legal contract governance across Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business.
• This role ensures seamless integration of global financial regulatory requirements into the firm’s client onboarding, counterparty due diligence, and trading agreement lifecycle management functions.
• This role operates at the intersection of regulatory change, legal risk management, trading governance, and operational efficiency, with a strategic mandate to transform how regulatory obligations are implemented into scalable, auditable, and automated onboarding and documentation ecosystems.
• The incumbent will lead global teams, own governance for client regulatory readiness, and serve as the control point for legal agreement compliance and due diligence standards across jurisdictions.

This is a strategic hire and will include a mandate to embed strong & robust operating models, risk & control principles, enact behavioural change and develop a client focussed culture across the organisation, the effective management of stakeholder relationships and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies across.

This role will be responsible for defining the ‘north star’ for Markets Contracts & Regulatory Due Diligence process, driving the journey towards the target state and ensuring that the process is executed with adequate controls & management oversight so as to ensure that the risks managed appropriately.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

o MiFID II client categorization

o LEI compliance

o SFTR / EMIR reporting mandates

o Dodd-Frank Protocols

o EMIR Portfolio Reconciliation & Dispute Resolution clauses

o UMR margin documentation

o Partner with Technology to deliver transformation.

Process Execution, Governance, Policy Adherence and Risk Management

Collaboration, Stakeholder Engagement & Team Management

Key Stakeholders

Other Responsibilities

Our Ideal Candidate

Deep understanding of global financial regulations and legal obligations across jurisdictions, including :

Role Specific Technical Competencies

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. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

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What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

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