Key Responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team for an Associate. We are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process, should you require any reasonable  adjustments please let us know so we can aim to accommodate your request. 

Strategy

• Our ideal candidate requires roughly 1-2 years or equivalent experience in Market Financing Sales. They do need a basic understanding of Financial Market’s Growth strategy and Client suite. Should be able to over time, have input into Client-level budgets and understand the key Client Wallets in the Money Markets & Financing sector. 

Business

• The candidate will need to support Senior Members of the desk with Trade Bookings & support activities and build relationships with clients. Our ideal candidate will be able to understand market dynamics, regulatory landscape and macro environment shaping financing markets. We are also looking for the potential to grow into alternative financing asset classes outside of fixed income. 

Processes

• The diligent booking & timely execution of high volume flow trade, generation of Trade Ideas and driving business growth. Key products covered will be Repo, Money Markets, Foreign Exchange & Interest Rate Derivatives

Risk Management

• Identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group relating to the money markets and financing business. Close liaison with Traded Credit Risk Management & other stakeholders to ensure accurate adherence to Risk Limits set at client level

Governance

• All employees will need to keep up to date on e-learnings and for this role the CISI Capital Markets exams  

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• All our employees aim to live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• We take 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.
• We all aim to effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• FM Trading Teams
• Investor Sales
• Funds Risk 
• Legal/Compliance
• Operations
• Onboarding

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in UK, Financial Markets; 

Skills and Experience

• Investment Risk, Economics & Finance    
• Investments    
• Securities Laws and Regulations Compliance    

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.