Key Responsibilities

Strategy*
•    Address complex inquiries, perform investigative tasks, and execute comprehensive due diligence activities in response to client requests. 
•    Deliver thorough analyses of escalated issues when required and recommend appropriate actions for resolution. 
•    Engage in capacity planning to ascertain the daily production capacity necessary to accommodate the evolving demands of job allocation. 
•    Execute business plans, policies, and procedures that provide solutions and opportunities for cost savings. Review and allocate sufficient resources for operational continuity within the department. 
•    Develop and implement business initiatives, client solutions, or projects related to in-country operations. Suggest solutions for enhancing settlement processes, improving client services, or advancing overall technological capabilities.

Business*
•    Develop strong understanding of the bank’s global client base, including Global Corporates, institutional counterparties, and financial institutions
•    Engage confidently with internal stakeholders and external counterparties to resolve drafting breaks and economic disputes
•    Support new product rollouts and structured deal implementations by providing operational drafting insights
•    Demonstrate awareness of market conventions (ISDA, GMRA, commodity templates, structured note documentation standards)
•    Manage daily performance metrics associated with pre-settlement activities within operational processes
•    Collaborate with internal and external clients to evaluate service quality and identify opportunities for enhancement
•    Comfort working in agile or scrum project environment with cross-functional support between Technology   and Market Operations

Processes*
•    Draft and validate confirmations across OTC Derivatives, Commodities, and Structured Notes for global markets transactions.
•    Ensure contractual accuracy in economic terms, settlement mechanics, fallback language, and product-specific clauses.
•    Manage lifecycle events including amendments, novations, terminations, restructures, and rate resets.
•    Handle bespoke and hybrid structures with precision and strong documentation discipline.
•    Work closely with Front Office, Legal, Credit, and Settlements to resolve discrepancies efficiently.
•    Maintain high productivity and turnaround standards within defined SLAs.

Risk Management*
•    Apply strong maker-checker and four-eye control principles in all documentation outputs
•    Identify and escalate drafting inconsistencies, legal exposure risks, and settlement-impacting discrepancies
•    Ensure adherence to internal control frameworks, audit requirements, and regulatory obligations.
•    Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis where documentation errors occur
•    Maintain strong data integrity and record-keeping standards

Governance*
•    Ensure that processes align with the established group standards. 
•    Review and verify adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLA), Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and Key Risk Indicator (KRIs), without any breaches. 
•    Conduct a client profiling study and utilize client personas to enhance business opportunities.

The Ideal Candidate:

•    Bachelor’s degree in finance, Banking, Business Administration or related field
•    Min 5-7 years of relevant work experience
•    Proficiency in English (both written and spoken), 
•    Ability to speak additional languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese or other    foreign languages is an added advantage
•    Preferred mandatory experience in OTC, FX Options and rates confirmation drafting 
•    Flexibility in working hours- APAC (primary) to UK hours

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.