Job Summary

Overview:
We are looking for motivated and outstanding candidates to join the Financial Markets Operations (FMO) team. You will need passion, tenacity, and resilience in an ever-changing environment. We welcome graduates from a diverse range of degree disciplines. Bring your hard-working attitude, and we will invest in your learning and capabilities to be future leaders in our organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Leading the resolution of confirmation and settlement issues
• Participating in capacity planning to determine daily production capacity required for fluctuating job allocations
• Prioritizing and scheduling departmental workload to address volume fluctuations
• Coordinating leave coverage to maintain sufficient resources for departmental continuity
• Communicating work plan challenges and escalating potential bottlenecks to Line Managers

Business

• Oversee one or multiple processes within Settlement operation,  manage escalations and errors, and potentially lead selected projects.
• Maintain strong business relationships with the Front Office.
• Lead the resolution of confirmation and settlement issues.
• Continuously review DOI to ensure process procedures are up to date.

Processes

• Facilitate treasury operations for FXMM asset classes promptly and efficiently.
• Comprehend various product booking models and execute end-to-end operations for Foreign Exchange , Money Market and Derivative products.
  Daily responsibilities include:
  • Generating, dispatching, matching, following up on confirmations, reporting, and client servicing.
  • Affirming cash flow and settlement instructions, releasing payments, and performing end-of-day controls.
• Investigate imbalances in GL Suspense and Nostro accounts.
• Prepare manual confirmations or payments when necessary.
• Ensure prompt resolution of internal and external customer inquiries.

Risk Management

• Continuously review DOI to update process procedures
• Identify errors and omissions from routine processes and promptly resolve GL Suspense and Nostro account discrepancies
• Aim to reduce both internal and external processing errors
• Escalate and document exceptional cases in a timely manner
• Ensure adherence to audit and risk control measures for BAU procedures
• Maintain compliance with group standards

The Ideal Candidate:

•    Minimum 3-5 years relevant experience in banking operation
•    Exposure in Financial Market Operations
•    Good communication skills verbal and written
•    Strong problem-solving, data literacy, analytical and judgement skills
•    Proficiency in MS Office ie. Word, Excel. Power Point

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.