Job Summary

Strategy
•    Work closely with the AME team to look after Structured Credit Trading activities.
•    Work with Sales, Structuring, TRM and other internal stake holders to execute initiatives to grow Financing business and the broader Global Credit franchise.
•    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 end to end client identification, risk management, service and infrastructure. 
•    Work in conjunction with other partners to ensure SCB has a best-in-class offering for the EM credit asset class.
•    Work closely with Credit Flow team and Credit Solutions team to benefit from mutual expertise / strengths.
•    Be responsible for risk management of SCT activities in this region.

Business
•    Achieving assigned full year objectives 
•    Increase SCB's visibility by driving commercial, competitive pricing for our clients.
•    Accountable for setting achievable performance targets relating to business.
•    Help manage the implementation of  strategies and ensure that performance objectives and revenue goals are met and RWA targets managed.
•    Active performance monitoring — spot areas of underperformance and take corrective action

Key Responsibilities

Processes
•    Ensure adherence to all internal and external regulations.
•    To embed Operational Risk monitoring as an integral part of the business process. Towards this, to effectively carry out the assigned role, if any, under Compliance Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Assurance.
•    Ensure that the business meets its obligations the prevention of money laundering under the Group Policy and Standards and under local laws and regulations.
•    Help ensure that there are appropriate and documented internal controls and procedures in place. Help monitor the operation of such procedures and controls and regularly review them to ensure that they reflect any changes in products, systems, policy and regulations.
•    Accountable for helping establish and maintain frameworks to ensure processes are efficient, appropriate and compliant with all internal and external regulations.

Risk Management
•    Responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them.
•    Embed operational risk management and reporting as an integral part of the business process.
•    Ensure that adequate and appropriate systems and controls are in place to comply with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards, and codes.
•    Monitor all major risk issues and concentrations. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting to Risk Committees

Governance
•    Promote an environment where compliance with internal control functions and the external regulatory framework is a central priority of the business
•    Establish, maintain and supervise the framework to ensure business functions under my area of responsibility comply with internal policies, procedures, codes and applicable external laws and regulations and adhere to the expected high standards set out in the FM Code of Conduct
•    Manage the implementation of Structured Credit Trading specific strategies and ensure that performance objectives and long-term economic profit (EP) goals are met
•    Ensure the overall targets relating to budget are cascaded to teams with appropriate product targets and performance delivery on targets is proactively managed

Key stakeholders
•    Credit Structuring
•    Credit Sales, e-Sales
•    Credit Research, Syndication, Capital Markets
•    Credit Solutions and other teams in Credit Trading
•    Support and Control functions
•    Modelling and Analytics Group

Skills and Experience

•    Business - Market Knowledge
•    Business – Products and Processes
•    FM – Products – Bonds and Loans
•    FM – Products – Credit Derivatives
•    FM – Products – Foreign Exchange
•    FM – Products – Interest Rate & Currency Swaps

Qualifications

•    Substantial experience in the banking industry, including demonstrated success in a similar role.
•    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
•    Years of relevant experience in Structured Credit Trading

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.