Job Summary

Our Markets Traders identify, analyse and execute opportunities in the market, supporting the needs of our clients in a professional and fully compliant way.  Our Markets business aims to become the leading emerging markets fixed income, financing, and securities service franchise, and a leader in sustainable finance, advisory, trading and asset servicing. 

The business will achieve this by expanding product capabilities, building on footprint market strength, developing our talent and using technology to transform our ways of working. We’re looking for highly capable individuals to join us and maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism, in line with our valued behaviours. 

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)  
For more than 170 years we’ve support clients with their transaction banking, financial markets, corporate finance and borrowing needs and provide solutions to nearly 20,000 clients in the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Perform trading activity for Structured Credit Trading in Great China
• Help deliver the strategic direction and performance of business
• Work with Sales, Structuring, Risk Management and other internal stake holders to execute initiatives to grow the business
• Awareness and understanding of the strategy and business model of the Group and Global Credit, as appropriate to the role
• Maximise total product income by ensuring effective cost optimisation, risk management, service and infrastructure
• Be responsible for all risk management of Structured Credit Trading activities in the region
• Increase SCB's visibility by driving commercial, competitive pricing for our clients
• Manage the implementation of Structured Credit Trading specific strategies and ensure that performance objectives and revenue goals are met and RWA targets managed

Skills and Experience

• Some experience in Structured Credit Trading or other relevant area
• Relevant degree and proven ability to handle quantitative models
• Must possess sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Ability to work with geographically dispersed and highly varied stakeholders

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.