Job reruitment at Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria

Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria – We attract talented individuals. Not only can they give you the benefit of their experience, they also reveal a closer, more personal look at the wide range of global opportunities we offer. At the core of the Group’s people strategy is our focus on employee engagement. Engagement is a key driver of productivity and performance, which creates the foundation of our performance culture. We encourage and focus on the behaviours that bring out the very best from every employee, assessing their performance not just on results but on how those results were achieved. To further embed these behaviours we have a remuneration programme in place, carefully designed to incentivise our employees to live our values every day.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Counsel

Ref No: 2100014772
Location: Nigeria
Job: Legal
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent

The Role Responsibilities
Generic:

  • Provide general and transactional legal advice.
  • Negotiate and complete transaction documentation.
  • Review, maintain and manage documentation templates.
  • Provide training on legal/documentation matters and legal policies and procedures.
  • Provide legal review and sign-off required under relevant policies and procedures.
  • Assist in liaison with external counsels and country legal and compliance colleagues.
  • Create and maintain relationships with stakeholders and to proactively provide them with relevant legal advice, guidance and support on relevant legal and regulatory issues.
  • Develop thought leadership capability – as demonstrated by visibility within Nigeria, the Group, and externally (in the industry) as a point of contact for Nigeria legal-related consultation.
  • Take personal ownership of material contentious issues or inquiries faced by SCB Nigeria by collaborating with the Regional General Counsel, Dispute Resolution, the Global Head of Legal, Government Investigations and the Head of Shared Investigations Services.
  • Support and collaborate with broader Legal function to develop effective strategies for identifying horizon Legal risks across Nigeria and West Africa
  • Support and provide advice to the local teams involved in delivering SCB Group or Country commitment to any remediation program, considering any impact for SCB Nigeria

Legal:

  • Determine adequacy, validity and enforceability of contractual and collateral documentation.
  • Manage documentation templates automation.
  • Legal knowledge management.
  • Assist with review of and compliance with policies and procedures.
  • Assist in process governance committees and operational risks committees.
  • Assist in management of client dispute resolution, if any.

New products development and roll-out to new jurisdictions:

  • Review and provide legal sign-offs for product and country governance documents (where applicable).
  • Design, develop and approve new products documentation and country specific documentation.
  • Lead and coordinate with country legal & compliance in relation to global roll-out of new products.

Legal costs management:

  • Control, monitor and report external legal spending.
  • Monitor quality of legal services provided by external law firms.
  • Provide non-panel law firm approvals on a selective basis.

Governance:

  • Support the effective management of legal matters across Nigeria
  • Support reporting to and participate in key risk control committees and management groups on relevant SCB Nigeria legal risks and issues.
  • Support the management and provision of reports to relevant Group and business risk and control committees and management groups on key SCB Nigeria legal risks and issues where required.
  • Maintain an awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which SCB Nigeria operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
  • Challenge fellow executives effectively.
  • Work with local regulators (when required to do so) in an open and cooperative manner.

Corporate Secretariat:

  • Support the end to end board process and ensure high quality papers are circulated to the directors and minutes are drafted on a timely basis with all actions clearly documented and proactively followed up.
  • Support the management of all SCB entities in Blueprint where named as the Responsible Person (“RP”) and ensure that the information on Blueprint is accurate at all times.
  • Work closely with the Company Secretary to develop, maintain and execute on a robust board succession plan, maintain an up to date capability matrix and independent director watch list.
  • Prepare and file the necessary returns to the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Risk Management:

  • Within the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework, maintain an appropriate risk-based approach to assess, measure, monitor, manage and report Legal risks arising within SCB Nigeria.
  • Maintain an awareness and understanding of the top risks facing the country and the role the businesses/functions play in managing them.
  • Contribute to Nigeria’s Legal risk governance by providing perspective on legal risks, policies and procedures and ensuring consistency in Nigeria’s appropriate legal risks

Regulatory & Business Conduct:

  • Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
  • Develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external business stakeholders at appropriate levels ensuring an open and cooperative environment
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • Qualified Lawyer
  • Admission to the Nigerian Bar
  • Minimum of 6 years relevant experience
  • High level communication skills (English)
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Excellent written skills (English)
  • Excellent negotiation and advocacy skills

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

 

Job Title: Head, Supply Chain Management

Ref No: 2100017080
Location: Lagos
Job: Business Efficiency
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent

The Role Responsibilities
The Country Head of Nigeria is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the Supply Chain Management organisation in Nigeria, with the purpose of:

  • Ownership, execution and delivery of SCM objectives, strategies and supply chain cost reduction targets for Nigeria.
  • Ownership of Third-Party Risk Management
  • Leading the respective SCM country sourcing team’s delivery
  • Governance, assurance and compliance of all SCM owned policies across all, businesses and functions within the country
  • Provides leadership and support for the overall supplier risk mitigation programs within the country
  • Senior in country Stakeholder engagement, representing SCM to all country management stakeholders and applicable risk committees
  • Contributes to the strategy and overall achievement of functional objectives as a member of the regional Supply Chain Management leadership team

Strategy:

  • Understands and executes on the Country business requirements within consistent global standards
  • Executes global and regional priorities in the Country which includes implementation of sourcing strategies and an operating model that optimizes management of SCB’s end-to-end supply chain, reducing costs and managing risks.
  • Owns the implementation of the Third-Party Risk Management programme in country, including the development of any specific controls or processes to meet local regulatory requirements.

Business:

  • Direct accountability for establishing and achieving Country sourcing targets and execution of supply chain strategies through effective resourcing of Country category team.
  • Direct accountability for establishing and maintaining adherence to the Third-Party Risk Management policy.
  • Leadership of high profile or high value projects in the Country.
  • Establishes and maintains effective senior countries stakeholder engagement demonstrating value to business partners through collective collaboration on efficiency, supplier risk and compliance matters
  • Manages functional expenses and headcount within budget plans

Processes:

  • In conjunction with SCM Operations, deliver simplification, optimisation and standardization of sourcing related processes in the country that increases efficiency, improves risk and control and ensure that sourcing processes
  • Ensure that SCM category strategies incorporate the needs of business and functional stakeholders within the Country.
  • Ensure that the Third-Party Risk Management processes are adhered to throughout the Country.
  • Enforce the usage of SCM related tools that increases efficiency, contestability, compliance and spend control.
  • Develop benchmarks and scorecards for team that can be used for performance measurement and continuous improvement
  • Creates an environment which promotes the right behaviours amongst team members focusing on shared responsibilities and accountability as a team. Encourages team sharing in the areas of category management and sourcing best practices within and outside the Country.

People and Talent:

  • Oversee management of 3 Sourcing Staff in country

Risk Management:

  • Responsible for implementing and maintaining effective governance and controls for Third Party Risk Management in Nigeria.
  • Support and execute necessary actions and deliverables to meet existing and new regulatory requirements that relate to the bank’s supplier base.
  • Support country risk reviews for SCM and implement corrective actions as required

Governance:

  • Provides counsel and leadership to stakeholders across the business functions within the Country in support of procurement, vendor management, outsourcing and contract management and other SCM related queries.
  • Country responsibility for Governance, Controls & Compliance oversight across Policy, Function and services delivered by SCM

Regulatory & Business Conduct:

  • 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 Country 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 in line with the Local Central Bank requirements.

Key Stakeholders:

  • CFO, Nigeria
  • HR Head, Kenya
  • Marketing Head, Nigeria
  • Operations Head, Nigeria
  • Retail Head, Nigeria
  • Compliance Head, Nigeria

Other Responsibilities:

  • Membership of specific supplier risk committees within country.

Our Ideal Candidate

  • Any qualification related to Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management or Supply Chain is welcome

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Cloud Authentication Engineer

Ref No: 2100002570
Location: Nigeria
Job: Technology
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent

Job Purpose

  • Security Technology Services (STS) is a critical function within Standard Chartered Bank operating under the overall purview of “Enterprise Technology”.
  • The STS team is made up of cyber security thought leaders, who are accountable for the provision of a global set of cyber security services and products in order to maintain and continuously improve Bank’s cyber security posture in today’s ever evolving cyber security landscape.
  • The STS  function protects the Bank from cyber security threats by delivering effective information security technology services, managing and responding to security incidents to ensure, and support the continuity and growth of Bank’s business operations; and meet the both internal and external stakeholders’ expectations across 70+ countries and territories, in which SCB operates.
  • Within this function we are looking for a skilled Engineer who will drive the implementation of Cloud Security Solutions to improve the Bank’s security posture and protect it from complex cyber threats. The ideal candidate would have an Engineering mindset with excellent problem-solving capabilities and would be able to convert abstract ideas to working solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for driving the delivery of authentication capabilities i.e. SSO, Multi-factor Authentication and Directory services for applications in the cloud, ensuring security controls become the default for Cloud/ SaaS based applications
  • Work as part of a small skilled team (Tribe/ squad) of engineers and senior architects to analyse technical and non-technical requirements to build robust authentication patterns for cloud-based applications.
  • Manages and continuously enhances capabilities within Security Technology  service portfolio.
  • Operates various Authentication technology tools, based on specialization, but not limited to Single Sign on, Multi-factor authentication and directory services.
  • Operates and provide expert guidance on authentication controls required in the cloud
  • Makes recommendations to improve integration of applications with enterprise authentication service capability
  • Coordinate solution implementation, advisory, problem management, change control and incident response.
  • Collaborates with business teams, infra teams, security operations and offers technical guidance
  • Develops, tracks and analyses actionable metrics to continuously improve tooling and procedures and provide visibility of operations to management.
  • Performs security assessments and vulnerability analysis as required to justify risk tolerances and acceptances
  • Documentation of security infrastructure, implementation, operational manuals and developing configurations to meet new business requests
  • Review findings from and identify root causes for common issues and provide recommendations for sustainable improvement.

Competencies (Knowledge & Skills)

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related fields
  • 8 – 10 years of progressive IAM experience with focus on Authentication & Authorisation with at least 4 years in delivering enterprise solutions
  • Must hold industry certifications such as – Azure Security, Azure Developer, AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Security.
  • Hands on experience in public clouds (AWS/Azure) is a must
  • Must have experience in implementation of authentication and authorisation technologies and federated identity standards and protocols (multifactor authentication, secure-key, SSO, LDAP Kerberos, OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect)  at an enterprise scale
  • Strong understanding of ForgeRock Directory Services(Open DS), Oracle Unified Directory, ForgeRock Access Manager (OpenAM), ForgeRock Identity Gateway and Active & (Azure AD) Directory (desirable)
  • Skillsets in the following would be an advantage:
    • Programming experience in Java/J2EE, Spring/Hibernate, Rest APIs, JSON, XML
    • Experience in Infrastructure as a Code Products ((Terraform, Cloud Formation)
    • Working knowledge of Containers and container orchestration platform
    • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practise, tooling, and techniques, (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, git; Jenkins, Artifactory, Packer, Rundeck, Ansible, AWS, ELK, AppDynamics etc)
    • Knowledge on version control tools (SVN, GitHub), Groovy scripts.
  • Experience in working with geographically dispersed teams, preferably in the Financial Services industry.
  • Experience with enterprise applications (architecture, development, support, and troubleshooting).
  • Experience and exposure to threat modelling and design reviews to assess security implications and requirements for introduction of new technologies.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/ self-motivated
  • Technical writing experience is a plus

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Security Specialist – ForgeRock

Ref No: 2100002569
Location: Nigeria
Job: Technology
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent

The Role Responsibilities

  • Would be responsible for transitioning multi-factor authentication capabilities for Desktop and Password-less authentication from project phase to operate phase
  • Manages and continuously enhances capabilities within Security Technology service portfolio.
  • Act as a subject matter expert for resolving Level 3 issues
  • Provide subject matter expertise in ForgeRock  Access Manager, ForgeRock  Directory Services, Oracle Unified Directory, Secret Double Octopus tools to the build authentication capabilities.
  • Responsible for Development, Testing, and implementing authentication solutions, preferably using a DevOps approach
  • The role partners with technical teams and senior architects to analyse technical and non-technical requirements to build robust authentication solution for Desktop MFA and Passwordless
  • Operates various Authentication technology tools, based on niche specialization such as Passwordless authentication
  • Assist the Service and Project Team in troubleshooting and remediating issues
  • Work collaboratively as a member of a Team to build and develop technical Identity and Access Management solutions
  • Coordinate solution implementation, advisory, problem management, change control and incident response.
  • Collaborates with business teams, infra teams, security operations and offers technical guidance
  • Develops, tracks and analyses actionable metrics to continuously improve tooling and procedures and provide visibility of operations to management.
  • Performs security assessments and vulnerability analysis as required to justify risk tolerances and acceptances
  • Documentation of security infrastructure, implementation, operational manuals and developing configurations to meet new business requests
  • Review findings from and Identify root causes for common issues and provide recommendations for sustainable improvement.

Our Ideal Candidate

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related fields
  • 8 – 10  years of progressive IAM experience with focus on Authentication with at least 4 years in delivering enterprise solutions for modern authentication mechanism
  • Strong understanding of Secret Double Octopus tooling, ForgeRock  Directory Services (Open DS), Oracle Unified Directory, ForgeRock  Access Manager (OpenAM), ForgeRock  Identity Gateway and Active & (Azure AD) Directory (desirable)
  • Must have experience in implementation of authentication technologies and federated identity standards and protocols (multifactor authentication, secure-key, SSO, LDAP Kerberos, OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect) at an enterprise scale
  • Skillsets in the following would be an advantage
    • Programming experience in Java/J2EE, Spring/Hibernate, Rest APIs, JSON, XML
    • Working knowledge of Containers and container orchestration platform
    • Knowledge on version control tools (SVN, GitHub), Groovy scripts.
  • Must have a clear understanding of the concepts of Identity and Access Management and related workflows.
  • Experience in working with geographically dispersed teams, preferably in the Financial Services industry.
  • Experience with enterprise applications (architecture, development, support, and troubleshooting).
  • Experience and exposure to threat modelling and design reviews to assess security implications and requirements for introduction of new technologies.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated
  • Technical writing experience is a plus
  • Industry certifications like CISSP, ForgeRock  related certifications would be plus

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Deadline: 5th July, 2021.