JOB SUMMARY

•    Provide efficient & timely execution for FI business across time zones with minimal operational errors.

•    Manage all trade, settlement & corporate action related issues by working seamlessly with the mid office, the operations team and the custodians.

•    Meticulously maintaining the trade blotters.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

•    Assist and work with Front Office to provide seamless execution, covering the London time zone
•    Efficient and timely execution of trades and RFQ’s 
•    Provide a high standards of client trading experience and after sales service.
•    Besides execution, the role would include: 
•    Providing fixed income ideation, market and product information to clients, RMs (across all the client segments like the Private Bank, Commercial Bank and the Retail Bank - also referred to collectively as the “Affluent Segment”), Investment Advisors and CSM’s.
•    Engage and Interact closely with the customers, RMs, Investment Advisors and Portfolio Advisors to proactively identify Fixed income solutions that meet customer needs.

Business
•    Provide efficient & timely execution for FI business across time zones with minimal operational errors
•    Manage ALL trade, settlement & corporate action related issues by working seamlessly with the mid office, the operations team and the custodians
•    Meticulously maintain the trade blotters
•    Ownership of the execution of cash bond and structured credit lines of business
•    Responsible for sending the New Issue announcements & updates, secondary market & relative value ideas
•    Support the Structured Credit business by working with the external counterparties, Internal Legal and Compliance for getting Documents approved, marketing, bookbuilding and trade closure.
•    Explores Products, People and Systems development to enhance the FI business.
•    Strict adherence to the SCB’s Market Risk procedures and its policies.  Ensure regulatory & internal compliance. 
•    Seek and obtain competitive pricing from FM and external counterparties. 

Processes
•    Ensure awareness of execution processes and deliver quality execution service. Ability to identify and suggest ways of enhancements to existing processes.
•    Accountable to risk control owners and/or Group policy owners for the implementation of policies and control standards set by them, ensuring compliance and operating within risk tolerance and risk appetite and building a culture of good conduct.   

People & Talent
•    Ability to work as a team player, providing support to cross desk to ensure seamless daily process flow

Risk Management
To proactively manage risk for both bank and clients

Governance
•    Observe and adhere to the SCB’s trading procedures, its governance and policy. Timely resolve any trade disputes and keep Management & the Head of Desk aware of any disputes. Ensure regulatory & internal compliance
•    Ensure all trades are tracked and maintained in the trade blotters and other forms of MIS reporting in a timely and accurate manner

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.

Key Stakeholders

•    Front office including clients, RMs, IAs
•    CMPS teams
•    Functional partners
•    External regulatory bodies and commercial/third-party entities

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Bachelor Degree 
•    3+ years of fixed income execution and trading experience is essential 
•    Private Banking /Wealth Management / Capital Market Sales experience or Industry knowledge is an added advantage.
•    Good Presentation Skills is an added advantage
•    Basic Microsoft office skills are a must
•    Ability to provide guidance and inspiration to the clients, RMs, CMPS Colleagues and other partners
•    Strong sense of self motivation and discipline in execution
•    Problem solving attitude with an eye for detail
•    Ability to perform well under stressful trading floor environment
•    Good communication, negotiation, sales and presentation skills with the ability to influence outcomes
•    Good ability to network with internal and external business stakeholders
•    Being a good team player is essential for this role. 

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Analytical Thinking
•    Market Knowledge
•    Products and Processes
•    Understand FI as an asset class

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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