JOB SUMMARY

The successful candidate will support the Country Markets Head and Cluster COO  in executing Markets Bangladesh strategy, implementing business initiatives, helping ensure adherence to regulations and policies and provide risk, governance & business management related support.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Support Country Markets & Business Heads to implement the local Markets strategy and business initiatives.
•    Be the “connector” between global and local Markets & COO stakeholders.

Business
•    Help enable business by project managing initiatives & driving governance requirements on new products/business opportunities in collaboration with control & support functions.
•    Partner with local support functions and stakeholders to unblock any business issues.
•    Support the Markets Country Head in running of the Business Risk Forums (BRFs).
•    Provide business support on dealing room management, e.g., capacity planning, business continuity, access controls, Service Level Agreements, licensing, etc.
•    Business budgeting and forecasting requirements for businesses.
•    Helping business in driving and management of a prudent cost culture.
•    Periodic & adhoc presentations, MIS and analytics as required by Country Markets Head

Processes
•    Assist Markets Head in effective supervision of Markets, Treasury Markets and Wealth Management Product Sales (WMPS) staff in the dealing room, where applicable.
•    Support dealing room staff in adhering to internal and external processes and procedures and governance practices.
•    Support the Markets Country Head in supervising and coordinating in-country audits.
•    Work on process simplification and re-engineering opportunities to improve operational efficiency.

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess and mitigate operational risks in-country.
•    Execute controls, monitor, report and escalate operational risks where appropriate.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Collaborate with Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (CFCR) and other stakeholders on local regulations to assess impact and manage any changes to business processes and infrastructure.

•    Support the Markets Head & CFCR in regulatory inspections, business submissions and advocacy initiatives
•    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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 

Key Stakeholders
•    Markets Head Bangladesh
•    Cluster COO Team
•    Product & Sales Business Management 
•    Country Business Heads 
•    Country CEO & COO Office
•    Operations 
•    Finance
•    Compliance 
•    Risk Functions – Market Risk, Traded Risk Management, Operational Risk 
•    Audit & Assurance

Qualification
•    Education     Bachelor’s Degree or post graduate with minimum 5-8 years of experience 
•    Certifications     MS Word, excel, Powerpoint
•    Languages     English

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Knowledge of the Financial Markets products 
•    Analytical and Presentation Skill
•    Problem Solver
•    Project Management Skills

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.