Job Summary

Treasury Modelling & Forecasting is driving a multi-year programme to deliver scalable and integrated solutions across Markets, Liquidity Stress Testing and Performance Management. The ultimate goal is to provide business a holistic view of their balance sheet and how various regulatory and internal constrains affected their profitability through forecasting and simulation. The outcome of this work will have direct impact to bank’s return on tangible equity (RoTE).

We are looking for a talented individual to lead the End Product Service Team cover BAU runs for Treasury PnL forecast and analytics, liquidity stresses testing & forecasting. This person will be the key point of contact for all BAU matters, maintain operational stability while integrating project outcomes into daily workflows. This position blends leadership, process optimization, and operational oversight and squad management.

A successful candidate will work closely with various teams under global Treasury COO, ensure seamless transition of project work into BAU, optimize the process with incremental refinement, manage a team of 5-7 people to meet the delivery goal, proactively manage stakeholder’s expectation.

Stakeholder Engagement

•    Communicate effectively to senior management and working group levels.
•    Keep stakeholders informed on the BAU activity status and communicate any issues in an orderly manner 
•    Able to effectively explain the forecast results and key movements from stakeholder’s perspective and answer question
•    Act as the primary point of escalation for significant operational incidents impacting BAU delivery

Resource and Capacity Planning

•    Ensure proper handover from project deliverables into robust BAU process with minimal incremental BAU resourcing asks. Estimate and agree with stakeholders on BAU scope / budgeting as needed.
•    Proactively agree working priorities with business on recurring BAU tasks and incremental process fixes
•    Monitor the resources capacity, resolve any resource constraint and plan out the BAU tasks accordingly that have maximal business impact
•    Ensure team resources are used efficiently, minimise downtime while preventing burnout. Identify opportunities to automat or streamline to free up capacity

BAU Production

•    Deliver periodic Treasury Markets PnL & FTP forecasting for Corporate Planning + refresh of Treasury Markets analytics.
•    Deliver periodic liquidity forecasting and stress testing, ensure accuracy and provide the relevant explanation on changes.
•    Ensure all defined BAU processes are executed accurately and consistently by the team
•    Monitor the workflow of existing process, identify bottlenecks and formulate backlogs for further process refinement
•    Implement the check and controls to prevent errors and breaches before they occur
•    Guarantee all BAU activities strictly follow internal policies, industry regulations, and legal requirements. Prepare for and supporting internal/external audits
•    Regularly monitor the health of systems, applications, and infrastructure critical to BAU delivery and initiate preventative maintenance if applicable
•    Identify root causes on BAU incidence and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented to minimise future recurrence
•    Dynamically assigning tasks and balancing workloads across the team based on skills, availability, and priority

Key Responsibilities

Key Stakeholders

•    Various Treasury teams (e.g. Treasury Markets, Treasury Liquidity, FTP, Cluster Treasury)
•    Various business teams from CCIB and CPBB Business Finance and FP&A
•    Liquidity & IRRBB Change + Technology
•    GCFO and Treasury Data & Analytics

Skills and Experience

• Treasury / Markets PnL Forecasting
• Funds Transfer Pricing
• Balance Sheet Management
• Liquidity Stress Testing
• Product Owner / Project Management
• Agile Way of Work
• Understand of Bank data / system architecture

Qualifications

Requirements / Candidate profile

•    10+ years of experience in Liquidity Risk Management, IRRBB, ALM, FTP or Treasury area from top-tier financial institutions on a similar role.
•    Deep understanding of balance sheet structure, financial data, regulatory liquidity metrics, liquidity stress testing and/or Recovery and Resolution scenarios.
•    Experience in drive continuous process improvements.
•    Ability to communicate effectively at various levels (e.g. senior management, business stakeholders, project squads, working groups)
•    Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
•    Degree in Finance / Economics / quantitative fields, CFA / FRM designation is highly beneficial.
•    Knowledge of Excel VBA or Python will be an advantage
•    Work experience in the design and development of automated reports / processes is an advantage
•    Prior experience with Balance Sheet Management platforms (Moody’s Analytics, QRM, Oracle, etc.) or booking platforms (Murex, Kondor, etc.) is an advantage.
•    Strive optimal balance between quality of delivery and effort/time spent.
•    Foster strong trust with stakeholders by providing timely and accurate BAU delivery 

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.