Assistant Manager, Credit Risk Management, Secured Lending (UAE Nationals only)

Job Summary

The role is responsible for supporting the CRM in managing and mitigating credit risk while ensuring the health and performance of the bank’s Mortgage and Wealth Management portfolios. This role involves developing and implementing risk management strategies, monitoring portfolio performance, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The incumbent will work closely with the Business team and Credit Underwriters to optimize risk-return balance and support sustainable portfolio growth.

Key Responsibilities

•    Support Secured CRM team in implementation of the process and policies relevant to credit risk assessment for Mortgage and Wealth Management products.
•    Support the team in monitoring and tracking portfolio health, key risk indicators (KRIs), and concentration risks across different customer segments.
•    Identify early warning signals for potential delinquencies or credit deterioration and recommend proactive measures.
•    Work with collection and recovery teams to optimize non-performing loan (NPL) management strategies.
•    To ensure policy decisions help create the right target portfolio, in line with risk appetite and risk decision framework, and meet group and regulatory requirements. 
•    Collaborate with the Business team and Credit Underwriters to ensure credit risk policies support business growth without compromising risk appetite.
•    Ensure adherence to local and international banking regulations related to mortgage and wealth management products.
•    To translate the policies into the right underwriting and portfolio management standards and ensure that the end-to-end customer lifecycle performance (from underwriting through to collections and recoveries) is in line with expectations.  To take corrective actions if not.
•    Value-add to the business unit by identifying new , thematic and developing risks, adhoc reviews ( Accountability reviews, lessons learnt reviews, process/control reviews) at the unit level, or, actively participating in reviews driven by Group /  Country / Function based on thematic issues using forward looking approach.

Skills and Experience

•    Strong Verbal and writing Communication skills 
•    Good logical and number crunching skills to review and evaluate MIS packs and prepare summaries for higher management.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelors’ degree

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.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.