Job Summary

This senior equity derivatives sales role will be responsible for originating, structuring, and distributing equity derivatives solutions to institutional and Sponsor clients globally. The role focuses on delivering cross-asset, client-centric solutions aligned with the Bank’s strategic growth priorities, risk appetite, and regulatory framework.

Key Responsibilities

•    To develop the Bank’s relationships with Clients through marketing and sales of Financial Market products generally and specifically to grow the business with Investors and Sponsor clients.
•    Originate and execute equity derivatives and financing transactions including but not limited to margin loans, equity repos, TRS and other bespoke solutions.
•    Advise clients on hedging, yield enhancement, and investment strategies using equity derivatives across single stocks and baskets.
•    Work with clients in conjunction with Relationship Managers, and other colleagues in Sales, Origination, Research, Relationship Management, Structuring, Trading, Legal, Compliance and Risk, to develop a thorough understanding of each prospective client’s business needs. 
•    Work with Relationship Managers to originate new clients to market and sell Financial Market products.
•    Emphasis on cross asset and cross boarder collaboration in order maximize client service.
•    Grow SCB’s client income from non-bank FI clients and drive penetration of key target clients in equity financing and derivatives.
•    Support any global client initiatives to increase SCB’s revenues with non-bank FIs on equity financing & derivatives (domestically and through the network).
•    Work closely with all stakeholders to improve the firm’s coordination and penetration with key clients.
•    Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

•    Actively engage Structuring, Trading, Relationship and Risk Management teams to facilitate optimum client risk solutions.
•    Liaising with clients and executing trades and orders in line with SCB’s policy and procedures consistent with all FM Sales staff globally including Order Handling, Record Keeping and Best Execution.
•    Accountable for ensuring appropriate frameworks and operational infrastructures are in place to enable the business processes to be efficient, appropriate and compliant with internal policies, procedures, codes and applicable external laws and regulations.
•    Taking responsibility for the global financial market’s relationship for key clients where appropriate. This will require liaison with Relationship Managers and SCB product specialists in other regions in which clients are active, to help build the global franchise with dedicated coverage accounts. 
•    Take ownership of all aspects of service delivery to the client within Financial Markets, including support functions such as operations. 
•    Assist in setting up adequate infrastructure to facilitate dealing.
•    Drive/follow Financial Market themes and key initiatives and close alignment with the risk books

Qualifications

•    University degree essential and post-graduate qualification in business management preferred.
•    Candidate must have more than 10 years of experience in financial markets / investment banking

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.