Job Summary

This role could be based in China and Hong Kong. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

The role holder’s primary responsibility will be to provide efficient, quality English-Chinese and Chinese-English live verbal interpretation services to the Global Research Team as well as written translations of published reports and other materials. The role holder will provide live verbal interpretation during webinars/roadshows for analysts, as well as facilitating China investor trips. In addition, the role will include the translation of a selection of English research reports for the broader research team into Chinese, and facilitate research information collection over time. The role holder will enhance and consolidate the service offering provided by the team to the Bank’s clients globally.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy/Business

•    Live verbal interpretation at webinars and China roadshows
•    Live verbal interpretation for various onshore visits including investor trips, analyst roadshows 
•    Provide quality written translation services and facilitate information collection

Processes

•    Ensure adherence to all internal and external regulations
•    Ensure compliance with procedures and controls as a result of changes in products, systems, policy or regulations

Risk Management

•    Be responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group
•    Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them
•    Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control environment in Global Research 

Governance

•    Ensure adherence to the product governance both individually and within the global team
•    Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Be responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge fellow executives effectively; and willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.

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.
•    Work with the China Macro Strategy team to achieve outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.  

Key stakeholders

•    Internal 
o    Global Research

•    External 
All key clients and potential new clients 

Qualifications

•    EDUCATION     :Degree holder with relevant language capabilities 
•    LANGUAGES     :The candidate must be able to speak and read both Chinese and English 

Skills and Experience

•    Communicating Complex Concepts
•    Effective Presentations
•    Oral Communications
•    Written Communications
•    English Skill (both spoken & written) 

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.