IMR Lead- Data Management, Risk

Job ID: 43511

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 4 Nov 2025

Key Responsibilities

• We are seeking an IMR (Issue Management & Resolution) Lead within the Risk function to coordinate and drive timely resolution of data quality and risk reporting issues across multiple domains. The role will act as a central point of contact between Risk teams, Functional Units, Data Domains, and the Chief Data Office (CDO) to ensure consistent prioritization, ownership, and closure of issues.
• The IMR Lead will be responsible for facilitating cross-functional governance forums, tracking and monitoring progress, and ensuring adherence to agreed remediation timelines and data quality standards. The individual will also help identify systemic themes, escalate critical risks, and drive sustainable solutions by working closely with business, technology, and control partners.
• This role requires strong stakeholder management, governance discipline, and problem-solving skills to steer issue resolution in line with enterprise data management policies and regulatory expectations.

Key stakeholders

• Head of Data Management, Risk & CFCC
• Global Head of Data, Risk & CFCC
• Data Strategy, Risk & CFCC
• Risk Reporting Leads
• FFG Product Owners
• TTO
• CDO
• Governance Team

Qualifications

• 10+ Years of relevant experience in similar role & specifically in Risk / CFCC
• Experience in data management, Data Governance, Data Quality execution and data delivery projects
• SQL skills
• Strong Stakeholder management & communication skills
• Strong RCA skills
• Able to make good working relationships with people at all levels, to work in a team environment.
• Able to work under time pressure & adapt to changing requirements.
• Overall work experience of at least 12 years.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in Risk
• Prior experience of SQL & Python Programming
• Hands-on experience in Metadata management, data documentation and metadata tooling
• Experience in Banking Domain
• Business Analysis & Effective Communication skills
• Experience in BCBS239 or similar regulatory areas
• Experience in Data Quality Management processes (DQ monitoring, issue management and reporting)

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.