Job Summary

The Official Institution Groups sits within the Financial Markets Global Research team. The primary function of the team is to provide rating advisory to the Bank’s sovereign and multilateral clients – a workstream referred to as Sovereign Ratings Advisory (SRA) for the purpose of this Job Description. The SRA function provides Governments and select Multilateral clients with strategic advice on how to best manage their credit ratings and position their sovereign credit narrative with the three main credit ratings agencies (CRAs): S&P, Moody’s and Fitch.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the SRA mandate across the following areas of engagement: Assist and advise Sovereign and Multilateral clients in obtaining or maintaining credit ratings from international rating agencies including advising on rating related matters, such as methodologies and processes.
• Support team interactions with senior government officials and staff at Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) on all matters relating to SRA.
• Support Sovereign and Multilateral client engagements with Credit Rating Agencies (CRA) for meetings and reviews, including briefings and logistics.
• Facilitate dialogue with CRAs at key forums.
• Help design capacity building and rating strategy/ roadmap for clients (as applicable).
• Help clients devise communication strategy around credit positioning for CRAs and Investors, building a credit narrative.
• Understand and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the Groups policies, procedures, and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk and compliance matters. Mitigation of risks and resolution of issues in a timely manner.
• Adherence to laws and regulations, internal risk and compliance policies and the Group Code of Conduct.

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.

Key stakeholders 

• Senior leaders and key decision-makers in governments, multilateral development banks, and official sector institutions
• SCB Chairwoman, Country CEOs, CIB and FM leadership, and relationship managers.
• Senior analysts and stakeholders at Credit Rating Agencies.
• Team members and other relevant business stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

• Presentation skills
• Strong communications skills
• Analytical decision-making
• Macroeconomics / Geopolitical risk background is a plus
• Public Sector Advisory background is a plus
• Rating Agency, especially Sovereign Ratings, familiarity is a plus

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance / Economics / Public Policy / Political Science or any related field.

Languages: 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.