Job Summary

•    Support corporate actions, voluntary and mandatory in global markets. 
•    Receive corporate actions announcements from exchanges, custodian banks and depositaries and take proper actions for different entitlements.
•    Diarize corporate actions announcements daily and keep good record of each event.
•    Notify RM/ clients of the corporate actions’ events with details.
•    Follow-up with RM/Clients to ensure instructions are sent to custodians before deadlines. 
•    Liaise with custodian banks to follow up on outstanding items affecting corporate actions support.
•    Ensure data entries are correctly input into T24 before passing to checker to authorize.
•    Send email to notify front office of the CA events for their impacted clients.
•    Responding to front office queries.
•    Timely updating of daily statistics.
•    Handle ad hoc projects as assigned.
•    Accurate and timely processing of corporate action events.
•    Chase CA responses and follow up unsettle events with custodians.
•    Ensure that transactions are done in and in accordance with bank operational menu, desk instructions, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
•    Accurate update of client’s securities holdings in the bank system and correct reflection of such holdings in clients consolidated statements.

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Responsibilities that are related to the development and implementation of a strategy, for example, Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role 
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks

Risk Management

• The ability to interpret the Group's financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures. 

Governance 

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role

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 [country / business unit / function/[team] 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

• Internal: Front office / Product Managers /Risk Management/Country
• External: Custodians / Issuers

Skills and Experience

• Investment related experience
• Hands on experience on corporate actions 
• Good communications

Qualifications

•    Degree Holder in Finance or related discipline 
•    Knowledge in corporate actions in Global markets 
•    Must have good command of both verbal and written English 
•    Able to work under tight deadline and high pressure 
•    Self-motivated individual who is an experienced problem solver 
•    A team worker, and able to work under tight deadline and high pressure 
•    Hours can be demanding; must work during most Malaysian public holidays, resolution to problems often require efforts to research and communicate with various parties. 

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.