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Senior Exchange Control Advisory Consultant

Requisition Number: 48197
Job Location: Johannesburg, ZAF
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 29/01/2026
Posting End Date: 12/02/2026
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Job Summary
As a Senior Exchange Control Advisory Consultant at Standard Chartered, you will play a pivotal role in upholding the integrity and compliance of our Exchange Control processes. Your primary focus will be to ensure strict adherence to Exchange Control regulations, safeguarding the bank's Authorised Dealer's License while delivering exceptional client service. You will proactively engage in identifying improvement opportunities within the branch to guarantee effective Exchange Control compliance aligned with regulatory guidelines. In this role, you will support both Banking and Service Delivery Divisions by meticulously managing operational risks to prevent financial or reputational losses resulting from non-compliance, including processing errors or fraud. A thorough understanding of transaction nature in relation to Exchange Control is essential to ensure administrative alignment with prevailing rules, regulations, and policies.
Additionally, you will be responsible for researching, compiling, and submitting well-substantiated applications to the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Exchange Control authority, representing both the bank and its customer base where necessary. Your diligent administration will encompass systematic filing of all reported transactions and bank reports on shared platforms, serving as the loan reporting system administrator as well. You will contribute to business continuity planning (BCP) by participating in BCP testing in accordance with group standards. Routine generation and dispatch of reports and standard letters concerning Advance Payments, Merchanting Transactions, Non-Resident dealings, CFC (Customer Foreign Currency) transactions, and Forward Exchange Contract (FEC) processing will form part of your core responsibilities. You will lead the investigation and timely resolution of all SARB onsite and offsite inspection findings, ensuring comprehensive follow-up on all enquiries. Managing the Exchange Control mailbox daily to respond to all transactions and queries within agreed service level agreements will be key to maintaining seamless operational standards.
Key Responsibilities

• Your responsibilities will include the meticulous logging of daily activities, ensuring complete transparency and traceability.
• You will proactively monitor client exchange control applications approaching expiry and follow up at least one month before expiry using standardized tracking tools maintained on the shared drive.
• Providing expert advice and assistance to clients through various communication channels-be it face-to-face, telephonic, or electronic-is essential to maintain high service standards. Promptly managing and updating the generic Exchange Control mailbox will be crucial for effective client interaction.
• Internally, you will be tasked with ensuring that all pertinent information is uploaded and consistently updated on the shared drive on a monthly basis to optimize knowledge sharing among Exchange Control team members. In cases where clients' transactions impact service quality-particularly for Platinum or Hyper-care clients-you will escalate issues according to established guidelines, in collaboration with client service or management teams as appropriate.
• You will actively contribute to implementing Strategy directives from the Cash Group and Exchange Control Policy framework to align with overall business objectives.
• Ensuring all Exchange Control transactions are accurately vetted against Balance of Payments (BoP) categories and reported in strict adherence to regulations and within agreed processing timeframes forms the bedrock of this role. Maintaining continuous operational readiness of the BoP and associated Exchange Control systems is imperative. You will oversee reporting of transaction processing, utilising vendor systems such as Synthesis to identify and rectify discrepancies.
• Your accountability extends to managing the integrity of all data submitted to SARB through Cross Border Foreign Exchange Transaction Reporting Systems.
• Regular inclinations will include daily and monthly filing adhering to prescribed timelines, submission of regulatory reports such as Cash Threshold Report (CTR) and International Funds Transfer Report (IFTR), ensuring comprehensive pre- and post-vetting control over all Exchange Control activities.

Skills and Experience
We seek candidates possessing robust technical expertise and practical experience relevant to Exchange Control compliance and regulatory frameworks. Essential skills include:

• Comprehensive knowledge of SWIFT messaging standards, particularly ISO 20022, alongside proficiency in Cash Management Operations (CMO) processing.
• Deep understanding of South African Exchange Control regulations and the associated reporting requirements, ensuring accurate and compliant transaction processing.
• Proven leadership qualities complimented by strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated high standards of responsibility, integrity, confidentiality, and discretion when handling sensitive financial information.
• Exceptional attention to detail, a strong orientation towards control consciousness, and the ability to maintain compliance under dynamic conditions.
• Adaptability and resilience to effectively navigate changing market conditions and regulatory environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ensuring clear articulation of complex regulatory matters to stakeholders.
• Capability to operate successfully within multi-functional, interdisciplinary teams with strong influencing and stakeholder management competencies.
• A university degree or equivalent qualification is required.

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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