Job Summary

We are looking for a motivated and knowledgeable Associate to join our Commodities Sales team, based in London. This role offers an exciting opportunity to engage directly with corporate clients across the Middle East and Africa, providing tailored commodities hedging and financing solutions. You will act as the primary point of contact within Financial Markets for allocated corporate customers, play a key role in driving revenue growth through strategic sales, and contribute to enhancing our market presence. This position is ideal for individuals who are passionate about global markets, possess a keen understanding of commodity price risks, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will develop strong relationships with corporate clients and internal stakeholders, working collaboratively to understand clients' businesses and deliver competitive, innovative financial products. This role requires proactive engagement with economic and market trends to support clients' risk management strategies, while maintaining exemplary professional standards aligned with our bank's values.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of corporate clients requiring commodities hedging and financing solutions across the Middle East and Africa, providing expert advice and tailored product offerings.
• Profitably sell Financial Markets products to assigned corporate segments, ensuring alignment with revenue growth objectives and client needs.
• Deliver precise and timely product servicing to Client Relationship and supporting desks, facilitating seamless transaction execution and customer satisfaction.
• Act as a key networker on behalf of the team by maintaining regular communication with clients and cross-functional teams, gathering market intelligence, enhancing sales strategies, and raising the bank’s profile.
• Demonstrate professionalism and integrity to strengthen client trust and foster long-lasting business relationships.
• Provide bespoke FX, Derivatives, and Structured Deposit solutions to corporate clients, addressing their unique financial challenges.
• Stay informed on economic conditions and commodity market trends to provide clients with insightful guidance on market risks affecting their business operations.
• Respond promptly and effectively to all client requests, whether directly from allocated customers or other enquiries that may benefit from the bank’s expertise.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of allocated clients' businesses through continuous engagement with Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking Relationship Managers and customers themselves.
• Maintain active dialogue with key clients to anticipate and address their evolving needs, contributing to strategic client agenda in collaboration with CCIB, Transaction Banking, and other stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in finance, economics, business, or a related discipline is preferred.
• CI Dealing Certificate is advantageous, reflecting a solid understanding of capital markets operations.
• CFA qualification or progress towards the Chartered Financial Analyst designation is considered a strong asset.

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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