Job Summary

•    The Global Markets Operations brings together the Global Markets Middle Office Team, Markets Client Solutions and the In-Country Markets Operations footprint to foster consistency in client and business face-off across products and geographies. 

•    This is a strategic hire and will include a mandate to embed strong & robust operating models, risk & control principles, enact behavioural change and develop a control focussed culture across the organisation, front to back. Globally, Middle Office is split out across 13 Locations and covers Macro, Credit and Equity products. They are the main point of contact across Front Office and various Operations groups.  As the role is responsible for RBI and CCIL reporting its plays a critical role in ensuring the Bank’s compliance with statutory and supervisory requirements.  
•    Our Mission Statement entails "Our mission is to become trusted partners to the FM Business by delivering operational efficiency and superior risk management practices, providing critical trade support to Sales and Trading and generate data-driven actionable insights to drive informed decision-making".

Business

•    Demonstrate thorough understanding of RBI regulations, circulars and reporting requirements.  
•    Maintains awareness of evolving regulatory frameworks and proactively adopts reporting process to align with new directives.

Processes

•    Responsible for end-to-end execution of the regulatory reporting process to RBI and CCIL, including data extraction, validation, reconciliation, and onward submission of said returns.  
•    Ensure reports are prepared in accordance with prescribed formats, reviewed for accuracy and submitted within mandated timelines. 
•    Maintains audit trails and documentation to support compliance reviews and inspections.  
•    Executes regulatory reporting process by implementing robust controls for data integrity, monitoring submission schedules and aligning reporting practices with evolving RBI/CCIL directives.
•    Identify and work with project teams towards complete automation.

Risk Management

•    Identify potential risks in data collection, compilation and reporting workflows; escalate issues promptly to management. Collaborate with FO, compliance, and risk teams to assess the impact of regulatory changes and mitigate reporting risks.  
•    Recommend and implement process enhancements to reporting systems and controls to strengthen risk resilience and reduce compliance gaps.

Governance

•    Embed strong & effective governance principles across the GMO function in India.
•    Develop metrics to monitor business processes, and to supply indicators of risk and performance.
•    Produce effective supervision guidelines and embed into BAU across all Markets business lines supported by GMO.
•    Provide effective challenge on forum, above and beyond those owned by GMO. Live and breathe the #NeverSettle value.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Provide leadership within the BCS organisation to comply with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and practices as defined by internal and external requirements. 

•    Takes a proactive approach to implementing Just Culture and emphasising the importance of the groups’ valued behaviours regularly through retrospective sessions with the team and Channels townhall sessions. 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Embed the Group’s Values and Group Code of Conduct to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics.  Comply with relevant policies, processes, and regulations, as part of the culture.  

Key stakeholders

•    Markets Business Heads 
•    Markets Sales & Trading  
•    Audit Teams
•    Technology
•    Market Risk
•    Group Operational Risk
•    GBS teams
•    Compliance  
•    Finance
•    Legal

Other Responsibilities

•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Qualifications

•    University degree
•    10+ years of relevant working experience in regulatory reporting function.

Skills and Experience

•    Regulatory (CIMS) and technology tools
•    End to end trade execution workflow
•    FM – Products – Foreign Exchange
•    FM – Products – Rates Derivatives
•    FM – Products – Structured Rates / Notes
•    FM – Products – Foreign Exchange Derivatives
•    FM – Products – Money Markets
•    FM – Products – Commodities
•    FM – Products – Credit Derivatives
 

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.