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Assistant Manager, Credit Initiation
mid · Risk & Compliance
Job Description Apply now Requisition Number: 56759 Job Location: Kwun Tong, HKG Global Grade: Band 8 Work Type: Office Working Employment Type: Permanent Posting Start Date: 10/08/2026 Posting End Date: 31/08/2026 Job Description:Job Summary
• Grant a prudent credit decision by assessing and evaluating customer’s creditworthiness (including existing customer and new application) for Retail mortgage and wealth management products
• Manage the daily operations of the Credit Initiation units (Secured Lending) to ensure services rendered meet the agreed service standards
• Regularly review work steps to improve productivity on services provided and control measures.
• Ensure consistency in underwriting standard.
• Facilitate and support launch of new products
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
• Support and provide inputs to Manager, Credit Initiation for developing operational model and shaping strategic agenda for Credit Initiation.
• Implement the operating model and strategic direction for Credit Initiation to best support process efficiencies and effectiveness.
Business
• Actively participate in different projects in identifying improvement area so as to improve the turnaround time and accuracy.
• Support new business initiatives, marketing program launches and revenue initiatives.
Processes
• Grant a prudent credit decision by assessing and evaluating customer’s creditworthiness (including existing customer and new application) for Retail mortgage and wealth management products
• Manage the daily operations of the Credit Initiation units (Secured Lending) to ensure services rendered meet the agreed service standards
• Regularly review work steps to improve productivity on services provided and control measures.
• Ensure consistency in underwriting standard.
• Facilitate and support launch of new products
People & Talent
• Train and develop staff to ensure performance is optimized.
Risk Management
• Conduct credit assessment on consumer credit applications per credit policies and regulatory guidelines
• Comprehend the prevailing fraud type so as to deter and prevent from fraud attack
• Comply with all applicable money laundering prevention procedures and in particular, report any suspicious activity to the Unit Money Laundering Prevention Officer and line manager.
Governance
• Ensuring compliance with the standards of regulatory and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements
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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
Internal stakeholders
• Product
• CRM
• Sales
• Fraud Risk Management
• System Support
• Lending Operation Teams
External stakeholders
• Surveyor firms
• Solicitor firms
• Mortgage insurers
Skills and Experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in unsecured lending approval
• Broad understanding of banking information management infrastructure and operational processes
• Ability to provide strategic direction to the function
• Strong leadership qualities, with the ability to motivate and lead teams in changing & challenging situations
• Strong analytical and dispute resolution skills, and the ability to command the respect of a cross functional set of professionals at a senior level
• Ability to make independent decisions with a strong sense of empowerment
• Skills in project management and process improvement
Qualifications
• Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin and English
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.