Job Summary

The role supports the timely and accurate forecasting of ~900 nostro accounts across 10 centers, spanning intragroup accounts, 3rd party agents and central banks (totaling ~$500bn in managed liquidity per day). This is done in close partnership with funding and trading desks across Treasury and FX and requires regular engagements with other teams across the bank. Finally, the role involves oversight for the bank’s throughput and intraday liquidity management at central banks. This footprint will expand as we onboard another 33 centers spanning ~1000 nostros and central banks. 

Key Responsibilities

Support real time nostro management processes:
•    Successful delivery of BAU functions aligned with daily forecasting, intraday liquidity (IDL) and cash management functions.
•    Calculation and provision of funding forecasts to Treasury Markets and FX desks in line with agreed cutoffs on an intraday basis. Provision of root cause analysis on key funding drivers and forecast swings.
•    Intraday liquidity monitoring and management of the firm’s central bank accounts 
•    Proactive management of payment scheduling systems to ensure the firm’s throughput requirements as well as time critical payments are met 
•    Reconciliation of forecasted vs actual nostro settlements in near real time, including exception management and manual adjustments.
•    Communicate forecasts and related info to the Treasury and FX trading desks. 
•    Support / deliver strategies linked to forecasting, IDL, and nostro cost related optimization 
•    Partner with the TS MT to further enhance and build on the team’s Target Operating Model. 
•    Be a key business partner and support contact to Treasury Markets to ensure effective real time funding and liquidity management decision-making.  
•    Cash management processes to manage IDL and funding
•    Real time forecasting and IDL related KRIs / dashboards for close monitoring and escalation on an intraday basis
•    Provision of Nostro MI in terms of next day balance reporting / explanations, monthly cost management, balance trends / root causes

Risk Management
•    Familiarize with Group Operational Risk, Group Money Laundering Prevention and other Policy and Procedures to the extent applicable. 
•     Actively assess risks and potential failure points in the processes handled and help highlight the areas to line managers and risk teams 
•     Comply with all applicable rules / regulations and Company & Group Policies. 
•     Assist in Department & Group related project. 

Governance 
Group Governance

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.
•    Lead the [IND / NNM / TS/ to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]  
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Treasury Markets
•    FX desks
•    Other stakeholders around the bank including Markets and Cash Operations. 

Our Ideal Candidate

Experience: 
•    Minimum 3 year's relevant experience in any Banking operations
•    Minimum 1 years’ experience of funding and liquidity management
•    Prior experience in business facing support functions - particularly Treasury and/or FX is useful 
•    Prior experience in Payments, Settlements / Confirmations (Securities, FX, Rates etc.) is useful

Skills:
•    Good verbal & written English communication
•    Excellent analytical capabilities 
•    Proficient in PC skills, particularly MS Office
•    Leadership qualities and interpersonal skills
•    Prioritization of activities
•    Problem solving / Trouble shooting skills
•    Ability to identify, mitigate and eliminate risks in processes.    
•    Good knowledge of forecasting, IDL and cash management functions and processes (funding driver and variance explains, payment scheduling/throughput, cash sweeps)
Good knowledge of Central Bank, Nostros, Vostro's
•    Knowledge in IDL and related areas - systems and processes linked to IDL management and optimization, peak usage, stress metrics and associated HQLA buffers 
•    Knowledge in front to back flows, particularly related to payments and settlements across asset classes is useful
•    Good knowledge of MT / ISO payment and statement related messages (PACS, CAMT, MT9x, MT5x)

Role specific technical skills and competencies

•    Nostro Forecasting (capturing multiple products and asset classes including FX, Rates, Money Market, Securities, Client Vostro’s etc)
•    Intraday Liquidity Management (throughput, payment queue management) 
•    Analytical thinking
•    Problem Solving 
•    Stakeholder / Business Engagement
•    Communication  

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.