Job Summary

As an Associate Director in ARM Trading at Standard Chartered, you will play a crucial role in driving the success and expansion of our electronic Foreign Exchange (eFX) trading franchise. This role demands a mix of quantitative expertise, market awareness, and strategic thinking to optimise trading operations while adhering to regulatory frameworks. You will be a key player in developing, tuning, and managing pricing strategies and risk controls in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Your work will influence how we engage with clients and partners, leveraging real-time data and advanced analytical tools to enhance execution and risk management. The position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a global bank that balances innovation with prudence, empowering you to make significant impacts on our franchise's growth.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams such as eSales, Algo Trading Quants, development, support, and compliance, you will ensure the seamless operation and continuous improvement of our automated risk management systems. This position is office-based in London and requires dedication to both routine responsibilities and strategic initiatives to maintain our competitive edge in electronic trading markets.

Key Responsibilities

The Associate Director, ARM Trading, will be responsible for a broad range of critical activities aimed at strengthening Standard Chartered's eFX trading capabilities:

• Maximise electronic trading profitability index (eTPI) through sophisticated market analysis and strategy execution.
• Drive the expansion of the eFX franchise within the boundaries of regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance at every stage.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of Standard Chartered's overarching business strategy and align ARM trading activities accordingly.
• Learn and assist in the operation and enhancement of the automated risk management system, promptly adjusting pricing and trading actions to mitigate risk.
• Develop, analyse, and fine-tune pricing strategies and quantitative models to optimise bid-ask spreads and trade execution performance.
• Gain familiarity with the technological architecture and tools facilitating real-time production eFX trading.
• Understand segmentation of clients and sales channels to improve flow and service levels.
• Conduct detailed analysis of historical client and market data to recommend enhancements in pricing structures and tier classifications.
• Evaluate market trends and historical information to inform risk management and trade execution strategies that increase efficiency and reduce exposure.
• Collaborate proactively with eSales teams, algorithmic traders, and quantitative specialists to implement innovative trading techniques.
• Engage effectively with software development, support, and compliance units to manage business-as-usual activities as well as the rollout of new tools and approaches.

This wide spectrum of responsibilities ensures that you are at the heart of both operational excellence and strategic development for our eFX trading platform.

Skills and Experience

• A strong academic foundation in quantitative or analytical disciplines such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or Finance is essential to succeed in this role.
• Extensive front office experience within electronic Foreign Exchange (eFX) trading or equivalent environments involving algorithmic, quantitative, or systematic trading.
• Comprehensive understanding of electronic trading systems, pricing mechanisms, and risk management frameworks, enabling swift adaptation to evolving market conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and ownership of tasks with a proactive approach, thriving in a demanding, fast-paced trading setting.
• Exceptional attention to detail combined with advanced problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex issues in real time.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with diverse teams, including sales, quants, developers, and compliance professionals.

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.

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