Job Description

Take the next step in your career as a Senior Analyst in Rates Middle Office, where you will play a key role in supporting trading activities and ensuring the smooth execution of Rates products across global markets.

In this role, you will develop deep expertise in Rates products while partnering with Trading, Sales, and cross-functional teams to enhance client experience, optimise processes, and support strategic initiatives. You’ll be part of a collaborative, fast-paced environment that values innovation, continuous improvement, and diverse perspectives.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational support to Trading and Sales teams across Rates products
• Act as a subject matter resource for Rates product lifecycle, risk, market data, and P&L
• Manage trade lifecycle activities, including query resolution and timely escalation to mitigate risk
• Collaborate with regional and global teams to support a “follow-the-sun” operating model
• Partner with Technology, COO, and project teams to support new product launches and transformation initiatives
• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders including Front Office, Operations, Legal, Credit, and Product Control
• Drive process improvements, standardisation, and operational efficiencies
• Support business continuity planning and ensure operational resilience
• Contribute to strategic initiatives that enable new business and improve client outcomes
• Engage with vendors and industry bodies to identify opportunities for system and process enhancements
• Ensure adherence to internal controls, governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements

Skills and Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Rates products and end-to-end trade lifecycle processes
• Experience in middle office, operations, or financial markets environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Proven ability to manage processes, resolve issues, and improve workflows
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills across diverse teams
• Experience working in a global, fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of operational risk, controls, and regulatory frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to support change initiatives and continuous improvement

Core Competencies:

• Process Improvement
• Managing Change
• Operational Functions
• Macro / Financial Markets Knowledge
• Back Office / Middle Office Operations

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.