Job Summary

•   As a key member of the Capital Markets Products and Sales (CMPS) Team, you will focus on structured products across various asset classes. This pivotal role centers on managing and executing complex structured products across a range of asset classes, collaborating closely with the Retail Bank’s Front Office to generate and price trade ideas effectively. 
•    You will work closely with Retail bank Front Office on pricing and execution of trades and trade ideas and have consistent interaction with the front office for idea generation.

Responsibilities
•    Providing cash equity execution support for Retail Bank
•    Ensuring accurate and proper execution of orders in fast-paced environment.
•    Preparing and presenting weekly trade ideas to the front office team.
•    Co-ordinate and liaise with external banks and counterparties on product development and idea generation. 
•    Support the end-to-end documentation and sales process cycle for product/idea generation. 
•    Providing support to front office to achieve the financial targets of the WRB segment.
•    Ensure compliance with all internal and regulatory requirements.
•    Maintaining good relationship and to work closely with internal and external stakeholders including the front, middle and back offices.
•    Ad hoc projects in relation to specific aspects of execution and desk activities.

Processes
•    Ensure awareness of execution processes and deliver quality execution service. Ability to identify and suggest ways of enhancements to existing processes.

Risk Management
•    To proactively manage risk for both bank and clients

Governance
•    Awareness of overall business governance

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.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    3 plus years of Derivatives and Structured Product Experience (particularly pricing, execution, marketing and sales).
•   Experience in banking primarily in wealth management would be preferred.
•    Keen interest in financial and equity markets.
•    Experience in Macros and VBA would be an added advantage. 
•    RNF and CACS and CMFAS Qualifications is required. Paper 1A or 1B, 5, 6, 6A, 8, 8A (RES1B or RES12B and CM-EIP and CM-SIP or CM-CMP) as well as FMRP
•    Basic analytical and technical skills that can be practically applied to day-to-day operations.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Analytical Thinking
•    Market Knowledge
•    Products and Processes

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

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