AD, COO Client Experience, PvB SG

Job Summary

Reporting to Director, Client Experience in PvB GCNA, this role is responsible to enable Front Office to deliver first-class experience for our PvB clients and prospect, across all aspects of the relationship in a proactive, coordinated, and innovative approach. This role is responsible to manage client feedback and complaints, while partnering with key stakeholders to identify and resolve areas of improvement, and measure and track progress with the goal of improving the client experience. To provide best in class client experience, this role would also be responsible for coordinating and facilitating effective training roadmap for the frontline.

Primary Duties

Client Complaint and Feedback Management

• Lead end-to-end management of client complaints and feedback, including detailed investigation through review of correspondence, account records and client interactions, ensuring timely and equitable resolution aligned with regulatory and internal standards

• Partner with Front Office, Legal, Compliance and relevant stakeholders to assess regulatory implications, support required filings, and ensure consistent, defensible handling of client issues

• Analyse complaint data to identify trends, root causes and control gaps, driving corrective actions and continuous process improvements to enhance client experience and mitigate recurrence.

• Prepare management information and client correspondences, while managing escalation and governance reporting (including Non-Financial Risk forums) to ensure transparency, effective issue triage and strong oversight of emerging risks.

Incident Management and Investigation

• Experience in handling end-to-end operational incidents impacting client experience, including liaison with operations and technology team on issue identification, root cause analysis, resolution proposal, formulating client response letter where required.

• Strong ability to conduct structured investigations, including fact-finding, evidence review, and stakeholder interviews

• Experience performing root cause analysis (RCA) to distinguish between system defects, process gaps, and human errors, as well as managing sensitive client-impact cases and aligning internal stakeholders on remediation approach

• Solid understanding of private banking business and its operational workflow, banking systems, and digital platforms is a must

Conduct and Other COO’s related tasks

• Support the PvB COO to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment

• Extensive experience in driving end-to-end client experience within Private Banking, including managing complex operational and technology-related incidents, delivering bespoke solutions for UHNW/Platinum clients, and partnering closely with Front Office to navigate high-impact cases

• Demonstrate strong ability to articulate constraints, manage difficult conversations, recalibrate client expectations, and implement pragmatic, client-centric and regulatorily defensible outcomes through effective stakeholder coordination and continuous process improvement

• Demonstrates strong sensitivity and professionalism in handling both Relationship Manager and client matters, providing proactive, constructive support while maintaining alignment, trust, and a positive client experience.

Service Excellence

• Consolidate and synthesise Voice of Business (VoB) inputs from clients and Front Office to identify recurring service gaps, operational deficiencies and pain points impacting the end-to-end client experience.

• Engage process owners, Operations and Technology partners to translate feedback into actionable solutions, assessing feasibility and aligning priorities across process and system enhancements (e.g. eOps, T24, digital platforms)

• Drive structured governance through Service Excellence forums and taskforces to track progress of initiatives, monitor implementation status, and ensure timely resolution of identified issues and operational incidents

• Lead end-to-end delivery of improvement initiatives by coordinating stakeholders, driving accountability, and ensuring solutions are effectively implemented to enhance service quality, operational efficiency and client outcomes

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Keep abreast of the Business development and drive operational process changes in accordance to the business strategy and direction to support of business growth

Processes

• Review and challenge the status quo where applicable to remove road block of operational processes for operational efficiency and client experience improvement.

People and Talent

• Advise front office of applicable internal policies and procedures related to Conduct and raise awareness of Conduct topics to our front office

Risk Management

• Understanding of the applicable internal policies and procedures and the Group Code of Conduct for complaint investigation and promote awareness of Conduct related topics

• Escalate risk matters to Business Risk Management and Compliance for risk assessment and formulate resolution

Governance

• Report of complaint statistics to applicable risk forum and Group for management oversight and trend analysis

• Submission of complaint statistics on a regular basis to HKMA to comply with regulatory requirement

Regulatory and 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.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Relationship Manager, Customer Service Manager, Investment Advisor, Business Planning Management, Business Risk Management, Compliance, Legal, Operations

Other Responsibilities

• As part of the COO team, the role holder is also responsible for day-to-day organisation, coordination and reporting of COO priorities and ensuring appropriate levels of stakeholder engagement.

Our Ideal Candidate

* 8+ years of experience in Banking/Financial Services, with strong exposure to business management, governance and operational processes.

* Strong understanding of Client Experience, Private Banking operations process, process improvement and business development, ideally within a wealth/private banking environment.

* Good knowledge of Risk Management, Conduct, Compliance and regulatory requirements, with the ability to identify and mitigate operational risks.

* Demonstrated ability to manage client complaints, service issues and escalations, while driving appropriate resolution and improving client outcomes.

* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Front Office, Operations, Risk, Compliance and other support functions.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Analytical skills on complex business scenario

• Proficient in PowerPoint

• Proficient in data analysis

• Understanding of private and retail banking business and operations

• Communication Skills

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.

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