Job Title Here Experience Director
Job ID:
000000123SC
Location:
London, UK
Area of interest:
Investment Banking
Job type:
Permanent - Full Time
Work style:
Hybrid Working
Opening date:
27-Sept-2022 Closing Date: 12-Oct-2022
Title: Head of Business Manager, Markets UK
London, GB
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
Business
- Execute the global Markets strategy locally.
- Stay updated on local regulations to assess impact and manage business changes.
- Support dealing room management: capacity, continuity, access, SLAs, licensing.
- Promote cost discipline and seek cost reduction.
Processes
- Connect global and local, sharing best practices.
- Seek process simplification and re-engineering to improve efficiency.
Risk Management
- Manage local non-financial risks with suitable controls;
- Ensure regulatory compliance.
- Oversee 2nd line reviews, audits, and inspections;
Supervision
- Help Markets Head supervise Markets, Treasury Markets, and Wealth Management sales staff.
- Ensure staff follow internal and external procedures.
Governance
- Assist Market head with risk and supervision committees.
- Monitor, report, and escalate risks to local committees as needed
- Lead and build a high performing in-country Markets COO team.
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
- 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.
