Long Description

We’re looking for a strategic and solutions-driven Business Manager to support our Financial Markets (FM) business in Europe. In this pivotal role based in the UK Dealing Room, you’ll help deliver local strategy, improve operational efficiency, manage risk, and ensure seamless execution of business initiatives. The role also supports change management, including regulatory implementation. If you're a connector, a critical thinker, and someone who thrives in dynamic environments—this could be your next big move.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Partner with FM Country Head to implement local and global business strategies.
• Facilitate Business Risk Forums and ensure effective supervision of Front Office staff.
• Drive cross-functional alignment between global and local teams to share best practices.

Governance & Risk Management

• Identify and mitigate operational risks across the Markets business.
• Support audit coordination, regulatory readiness, and product governance.
• Lead operational controls and ensure full compliance with internal and external policies.

Process Efficiency & Business Support

• Continuously review and enhance processes to increase effectiveness and scalability.
• Oversee key support functions such as capacity planning, licensing, Dealing room management, Business Continuity planning, and cost management.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and reconciled reporting submissions in partnership with Operations and other stakeholders.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Strong knowledge of Financial Markets products and infrastructure
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Confident communicator with problem-solving mindset
• Proven ability to manage projects and cross-functional initiatives.
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in high-paced environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or postgraduate qualification in Finance, Business, or a related field
• 5–8 years’ experience in a Financial Markets, Middle office, Operations, or Risk/Control environment
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Fluent in English

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.