Job Title Here Experience Director

Job ID: 000000123SC
Location: London, UK
Area of interest: Investment Banking
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 27-Sept-2022 Closing Date: 12-Oct-2022
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Title:  Director, Structured Credit Trading

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Singapore, SG

Financial Markets
Regular Employee
Office - Full Time
18 Aug 2025

Job Summary

Our Markets Traders identify, analyse and execute opportunities in the market, supporting the needs of our clients in a professional and fully compliant way. Our Markets business aims to become the leading emerging markets fixed income, financing, and securities service franchise, and a leader in sustainable finance, advisory, trading and asset servicing.

The business will achieve this by expanding product capabilities, building on footprint market strength, developing our talent and using technology to transform our ways of working. We’re looking for highly capable individuals to join us and maintain the highest levels of integrity and professionalism, in line with our valued behaviours.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

  • Help push India focussed business and grow wallet share amongst competition; understand the local market dynamics
  • Help deliver the strategic direction and performance of Structured Credit Trading by working with Global Head, Structured Credit Trading.
  • Work with Sales, Structuring, TRM and other internal stake holders to execute initiatives to grow Financing business in Fund financing
  • Awareness and understanding of the strategy and business model of the Group and Global Credit, as appropriate to the role
  • Maximise total product income by ensuring effective end to end client identification, risk management, service and infrastructure
  • Work in conjunction with other partners to ensure build Structured Credit Trading business in Asia
  • Be responsible for all risk management of Structured Credit Trading activities in the region
  • Act as a mentor for juniors on the desk so that day-to-day activities can be handled by them

Busines

  • Achieving assigned full year objectives as per annual P3 document
  • Increase SCB's visibility by driving commercial, competitive pricing for our clients
  • Accountable for setting achievable performance targets relating to business
  • Help manage the implementation of Structured Credit Trading specific strategies and ensure that performance objectives and revenue goals are met and RWA targets managed
  • Active performance monitoring — spot areas of underperformance and take corrective action

Processes

  • Ensure adherence to all internal and external regulations.
  • To embed Operational Risk monitoring as an integral part of the business process. Towards this, to effectively carry out the assigned role, if any, under Compliance Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Assurance.
  • Ensure that the business meets its obligations the prevention of money laundering under the Group Policy and Standards and under local laws and regulations.
  • Help ensure that there are appropriate and documented internal controls and procedures in place. Help monitor the operation of such procedures and controls and regularly review them to ensure that they reflect any changes in products, systems, policy and regulations

People & Talent

·    Be part of a transparent and collaborative culture in which incentives are based on support of Client Income with specific performance metrics on the Bank's values.
·    To work in partnership with Structured Credit Trading team to ensure that the Structured Credit Trading product is meeting clients’ and the bank’s objectives

Risk Management

·    Responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them
·    Embed operational risk management and reporting as an integral part of the business process.
·    Ensure that adequate and appropriate systems and controls are in place to comply with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes.
·    Monitor all major risk issues and concentrations. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting to Risk Committees

Governance
·    Promote an environment where compliance with internal control functions and the external regulatory framework is a central priority of the business
·    Establish, maintain and supervise the framework to ensure business functions under my area of responsibility comply with internal policies, procedures, codes and applicable external laws and regulations and adhere to the expected high standards set out in the FM Code of Conduct
·    Manage the implementation of Financing and Investment Solutions specific strategies and ensure that performance objectives and long term economic profit (EP) goals are met
·    Ensure the overall targets relating to budget are cascaded to teams with appropriate product targets and performance delivery on targets is proactively managed

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.
  • Work in the Structured Credit Trading team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
  • Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Internal Stakeholder

  • Credit Structuring
  • Credit Sales, e-Sales
  • Credit Research, Syndication, Capital Markets
  • Credit Solutions and other teams in Credit Trading
  • Support and Control function
  • Modelling and Analytics Group

 

External

  • As and when necessary

Our Ideal candidate

  • Deep understanding of Indian regulatory landscape
  • Expertise in India related access and back leverage solutions.
  • 7+ years’ experience in Credit trading landscape and knowledge of various credit derivative products
  • Financing and other trading book solutions for clients in the region
  • To Maturity funding for bank clients in Asia
  • Experience in Structured Rate Loans and other banking book solutions
  • Help in building Asset side activities

Role Specific Technical Competencies

  • Trading
  • Market Risk
  • Investments

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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