Job Summary

The role sits on the trading floor between various rates desks, taking requirements from traders to build their pricing and market data tools.

The role strategy is to:

• Address the demand for improved electronic access to liquidity.
• Ensure solutions are aligned with business strategy.
• Deliver tactical Sales and Trading tools to address immediate needs and mitigate risk, and to facilitate the transition to the strategic platform.

Responsibilities

• Establish working relationships with traders to solve their pricing issues.
• Develop Excel-based prototypes, leading to proof-of-concept releases, in alignment with the Bank’s strategic objectives.
• Testing / debugging of quantitative analysis financial library functions.
• Collaborate on Price engine design, including all analytics (price discovery, market and client profiling).
• Collaborate on the development of risk management frameworks, and associated execution strategies.
• Accountable for ensuring deliveries are on-time and to specification, adhering to stringent quality requirements.
• Drive the change programme required to execute business strategy through the Process Governance Committee, i.e.:
• Participate in driving continuous improvements in the business, i.e. for identifying and executing ad hoc improvements to business processes, policies, and structure.
• Maintain appropriate frameworks and procedures within business for monitoring, identifying, assessing, and managing operational risks, i.e.:
• Work with support areas to help identify and mitigate identified operational risks in their areas.

Key Stakeholders

• Group Business Head and his direct/indirect reports.
• Respective heads of Rates businesses.
• Head of Interest Rates Quant team and his direct reports.
• Business Analysts in other parts of WB/SCB.
• Managers in other functions supporting the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Extensive knowledge of Financial Markets and FM Products.
• Extensive working knowledge of Interest Rates pricing.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Analytical aptitude, creative problem-solving abilities.
• Strong software development skills in languages such as C#, Java, C++.

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.