Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our Treasury Markets team, focus on executing the Treasury’s investment strategies and hedging the bank’s interest rate risks. This role plays a key part in meeting the bank’s return targets and offers dynamic growth opportunities within the organisation.  

Key Responsibilities

• Pro-actively manage the bond portfolio with a primary focus of liquidity and secondary objective of maximising returns. Meeting regulatory requirements and balanced with risk appetite.
• Position the investment book across currencies and instruments to capture interest rates volatility and swap arbitrages.  
• Closely monitor regional market developments and provide timely expert insights to our stakeholders.
• Understand the IRRBB and financial resources framework, optimising investment decisions and executing trades to meet global targets.
• Work closely with Liquidity management and collaborate with other internal functions in daily operations. Build strong relationships with external sell-side.
• Participate in various Treasury projects, continuously improve work process and efficiencies.

Processes and Risk Management

• Operate within defined Treasury Markets processes, governance, and risk frameworks.
• Adhere to Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes.

Governance and Conduct

• Enforce a culture of risk management, control and governance, and ensure that compliance with the risk management processes in place.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of dealing experience in bank treasury or other related markets functions.
• Solid understanding of G10 rates and Asian macro markets.
• Detail-oriented and strong analytical skills in making investment decision.
• Multi-tasking and ability to execute trades under fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional communication skills for articulating strategy and risk to stakeholders.
• Fluency (written and oral) in English and Chinese is necessary.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Programming is a plus.

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.