Job Summary

The prospect candidate would be primary responsible for managing custody services offering (including Gold custody & FOFs) comprising of client service management, transaction processing, systems maintenance, and monitoring, reporting and operational risk reporting

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively lead, manage, and process Standard Chartered Bank custody transactions—including safekeeping, transfers, reconciliations, and billing—on a daily basis, escalating any exceptions that require immediate resolution.
• Define, document, implement, and maintain scalable and efficient operational frameworks.
• Drive continuous quality improvement and automation across conventional assets.
• Manage and develop a growing offshore outsourced team, empowering members to assume greater responsibilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders throughout the organization to ensure seamless and scalable operations.
• Lead the implementation of new clients, products, and services.
• Support various projects and resolve queries from clients and stakeholders, consulting Compliance as necessary.
• Lead and engage in client onboarding to facilitate operational take-on and establish new relationships.
• Maintain an active interest in developments within the Financial Services industry. S
• erve as an integral part of the front-to-back process flow by reviewing processes and procedures to identify inefficiencies and recommend corrective actions.
• Bring extensive experience as an operations professional in banking or financial services, specializing in Securities Services and conventional asset services—including client onboarding, securities trade clearing and settlement, corporate actions, billing, payments, regulatory reporting, reconciliation, exception handling, business continuity management, project management, business enablement, and business analysis.

Skills and Experiences

• Min 7 to 10 years of relevant settlement experience 
• Good communication skills , verbal and written
• Exposure to Regional / Domestic Settlements operations, SWIFT Tags.
• Hands on experience in Clearstream / Euroclear / BNY is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of various settlement markets and swift message formatting
• Knowledge of allied products like Corporate Actions, Fund services and reference data will be an added advantage

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Banking/Finance/Information Technology or a similar subject or comparable professional training.

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.