Job Summary

• Senior analyst in market risk function overseeing financial risks and ensuring compliance with risk frameworks
• 7 months contract role

Key Responsibilities

• Daily monitoring of market risk exposures to ensure accurate reporting.
• Follow up on market risk related issues e.g. investigate and escalate limit excesses, potential concerns.
• Provide analysis on key markets for periodic updates to senior management.
• Support regulatory submissions.
• Conduct stress tests and scenario analysis.
• Review data quality of risk factors used for VaR computation.
• Perform user acceptance testing to support rollout of technology projects involving market risk.

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate    

• 3 + years of working experience in the financial industry.

  •           Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in finance or any quantitative discipline (Science, Engineering)

  •           CFA and FRM certifications would be advantageous.

  •           Good IT skills (eg Microsoft Office suite, programming in Python)

  •           Analytical and problem solver

  •           Self-motivated and result oriented

  •           Takes ownership of assigned tasks

  •           Willing to learn and be able to overcome a steep learning curve in a relatively short period.

   

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Core competency in bonds and interest rate derivative products  
• Proficient in Excel for handling and analysing large datasets

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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