Job Summary

Your role involves timely and accurate forecasting of approximately 900 nostro accounts across 10 centers, covering intragroup accounts, third-party agents, and central banks, managing around $500 billion in daily liquidity. This responsibility requires close collaboration with funding and trading desks within Treasury and FX, as well as regular coordination with various teams across the bank. Additionally, your role includes oversight of the bank’s throughput and intraday liquidity management at central banks. The position will also mentor a small team within treasury operations. 

Key Responsibilities

•  Team mentorship / oversight to ensure the successful delivery of day-to-day 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 evaluation 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 

•  Drive strategies linked to forecasting and IDL related optimization 

•  Connect with global transformational programs to ensure seamless operations

•  Partner with the TS MT to further enhance and build on the teams Target Operating Model. 

•  Be a key business partner and support contact to Treasury Markets to ensure effective real time funding and liquidity management strategy

•  Oversee cash management processes to manage IDL and funding

•  Oversee 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

•  Always ensure 100% compliance to the group’s risk management framework as applicable

Our Ideal Candidate

Experience: 

•  Minimum 10 years relevant experience in any Banking operations

•  Minimum 2 years’ experience of funding and liquidity management

•  Prior experience in business facing support functions - particularly Treasury and/or FX 

•  Prior people manager experience 

•  Prior experience in building out teams, operating models and supporting strategic change / delivery

•  Prior experience in Payments, Settlements / Confirmations (Securities, FX, Rates and so on) is useful

Skills:

• Good verbal & written English communication
•  Excellent assessing capabilities 
• Proficient in PC skills, particularly MS Office
• Good people mentorship skills.
• Prioritization and Delegation of activities
• Problem solving / Trouble shooting skills
• Ability to identify, mitigate and eliminate risks in processes.  
• Expert knowledge of forecasting, IDL and cash management functions and processes (funding driver and variance explains, payment scheduling/throughput, cash sweeps)
• Ample knowledge of Central Bank, Nostros, Vostros
• Good knowledge in IDL and related areas - systems and processes linked to IDL management and optimization, peak usage, stress metrics and associated HQLA buffers 
• Good 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)

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.