Job Summary

•    Centre of Excellence for APAC build out across all products.
•    Trade capture and life cycling of structured products.
•    Understanding and learn to manage query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation, in order to minimise risk exposure.
•    Trade capture, coordination and life-cycling for Financing products (loans), vanilla Credit and Structured Credit products. 
•    Understanding and manage query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation, in order to minimise risk
•    New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives and drive Operational readiness
•    Local management of:
o    Hubs: Drive global alignment and consistency, Follow The Sun support
o    Local Market: standardize where applicable, tailored processes/controls
•    Challenge vendor costs / services across the lifecycle
•    Operations representation for Sales and Trading, primary point of contact of local business teams
•    Operations representation for external/internal and regulator scheduled audits:
o    Ensure Audit points are addressed within timelines
•    Drive continuous improvement and innovate:
o    Partner with Technology to deliver transformation
o    Work with FM and FMO stakeholders to identify booking model improvements and drive efficiency
•    Be up to date and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements 
•    Adherence to Ops Risk Framework standards of implementation and process management.
•    Periodic review of DOI, process note, daily check-list to ensure complete and accurate recording of process procedure

Key Responsibilities

Business

•    Deliver Business Efficiency targets
•    Understanding of the business strategy and appropriate role given.
•    Monitors client service standards to ensure high-quality operational and client support services are provided 
•    Works closely with country and business to ensure operational platforms support client service level agreements and internal benchmarks as well as identifying opportunities for automation
•    Ensures compliance with all relevant local and global regulatory requirements and industry best practice.

Processes

•    All tasks executed by Hub stakeholders are performed in accordance with the Desk Instructions (DOI), relevant policies and procedures of the bank. 
•    Ensures Change Management processes are adhered to in country operations 
•    Ensures that key business practices and service delivery processes are conducted in compliance with Group and country regulatory guidelines
•    Identifies operational risks and enhances control mechanisms, both for in-country processes and services hubbed offshore.

Risk Management

•    The ability to identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks to the firm. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the firm and the role the individual plays in managing them 
•    The ability to interpret the firm’s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures
•    Manages Operations Risk effectively, including identification, communication, and remediation of risks to the relevant forums
•    Accountability – no audit fails; full remediation/root cause analysis and execution for ops losses

The Ideal Candidate:

•    Bachelors Degree or equivalent
•    Min 5 years of relevant experience
•    Knowledge of Financial products – FX, FX Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Commodities, Credit Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Money Market and ESG products. 
•    Familiar with Markitwire, RTNS, Bloomberg, ICE Link etc. 
•    Good Communication skills
•    Proficient in Excel (pivots, lookups and basic VBA an advantage)

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.