We are looking for an Associate Director, FM Middle Office Credit to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering first-class trade support, business enablement, and accurate/timely trade representation. They will be a subject matter expert in Repo and Collateral Markets, Financing products, and Credit Products. The candidate should have a comprehensive understanding of product characteristics, risk, market data, and P&L. They should also have strong analytical and process improvement skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support for structured credit trading, asset back lending.
• Own query remediation, trade life-cycling, and day-to-day processing to minimize risk.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation, partnering with Technology to deliver transformation.
• Act as the face of Operations to Sales and Trading Desks, representing Operations functions and building a strong team profile with the Front Office.
• Foster stakeholder engagement with a two-way flow of information, acting as a "Trusted Advisor."
• Enable new business and solutions, partnering to deliver strategic FM initiatives.
• Seek opportunities to improve global consistency, working closely with other regions to standardize processes.
• Communicate with clients to solve immediate issues and shape business decisions in Operations.
• Build a strong relationship with Hub teams to facilitate efficient communication and resolutions of issues.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and future-proof the Middle Office model through a strong understanding of current rules and anticipation of upcoming regulations.

Essential Competencies

• Analytical and process improvement mindset.
• Strong interpersonal skills, confident communicator, and ability to influence demanding individuals.
• Impact and gravitas to drive meetings with senior Operations and Front Office management.
• Demonstrates strong teamwork and values mindset.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
• Fast learner with the ability to think out of the box and provide solutions.

Key Criteria

• Experience of structured credit trading businesses, preferably asset backed lending
• Minimum 4 years of Financial Markets experience, ideally from a top-tier bank.
• Understanding of front-to-back processes and systems flows.

Additional Assets

• Knowledge of Bloomberg, APEX, Murex v2.11 and v3.1.
• Proficient in Excel (pivots, lookups, and basic VBA an advantage).
• Additional knowledge of Flow and Structured Credit Products.

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Expected annual base pay range for the role is $91,872 - $137,808. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

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