Job Summary

We are currently looking for Business Manager, Markets to join our office in Paris.  In this role you will  support the Markets Business Heads in executing Markets AG strategy, implementing business initiatives, helping ensure adherence to regulations and policies and provide risk & governance related support.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with AG Markets Head as well as Sales and Trading Heads to help define and implement strategic business plans. Act as a right hand to senior executives, preparing reports, presentations and strategic briefs.
• Support transformation initiatives (e.g. digitalization, new tools, reorganisation), coordinate implementation of regulatory projects or efficiency programs, and serves as central point of contact for cross-functional initiatives
• Track KPIs (revenues & returns, costs, client growth, and key risk parameters), analyze business performance against targets, and prepares regular dashboards and report for top management.
• Provide key support to enable business to operate more effectively. Remove barriers, improve efficiency and enhance capabilities so that teams and individuals can focus on delivering value to clients. 

Skills and Experience

• Min. 6 years of relevant experience in a similar position in the financial industry
• Education - University Degree (Finance/Banking preferrable)
• Strong understanding of Risk Management (with the focus on Operational Risk), Internal Controls and Regulatory Environment
• Project management skills
• Problem solving skills
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Proven excellent organisational and planning skills
• Ability to identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement
• Good interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence senior management and stakeholders across different cultures

Competencies

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.

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