Job Description

As a Precious Metals Specialist at Standard Chartered Bank, you will coordinate and manage bullion shipments, ensuring seamless trading operations across key financial hubs like London and Zurich. You'll be the vital link between the Trading desk and precious metals operations, managing liquid metal balances and driving efficiency in a highly specialized and dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational Excellence: Coordinate bullion shipments and monitor unallocated and allocated precious metals balances, ensuring accurate communication with the Trading desk.
• Strategic Implementation: Support the execution of the Business Unit’s target operating model, identifying process efficiencies and enhancing client service and risk management.
• Client & Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain active dialogue with Front Office and clients to enhance risk management, client understanding, and the profile of the Precious Metals function.
• Risk & Governance: Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, managing risks, and maintaining strict adherence to internal and external governance standards.

Skills & Qualifications

Skills

• Bullion Banking: Deep knowledge of bullion banking and precious metals operations.
• Regulatory Acumen: Strong understanding of the regulatory environment and risk management.
• Client Relations: Ability to engage effectively with clients and internal stakeholders to drive business outcomes.
• Process Optimization: Keen eye for identifying and implementing process improvements.

Qualifications

• Technical Expertise: In-depth knowledge of bullion banking, precious metals clearing, physical operations, and logistics.
• Experience: Proven experience in a similar role within precious metals or related financial services.

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.