RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

Estimate and plan for the internal funding and deposit taking requirements of other units of the Bank:-
•    Liaise with other business units to obtain the best possible view of asset pipelines and forecast liability generation
•    Communicate the funding requirements / excess liquidity position and with the Local Head of Liquidity convey capacity on limits 
•    Ensure adherence to all regulatory requirements and all internal liquidity metrics
•    Determine the level of marketable security holdings to facilitate the Bank making payments within the local RTGS system (in relevant positions)
•    Raise a flag to senior management on any concerns over the Bank’s capacity to meet projected funding requirements

Business

Meet all funding and deposit taking requirements while maintaining regulatory; stress and prudent liquidity requirements:-
•    Access the money markets as required; either with other banks directly or through interdealer broker; raising and placing liquidity to ensure liquidity limits are adhered to while maximising economic value to the Bank
•    Being proactive in raising and deploying liquidity, including through the management of the local NCD programme
•    Proactively establish and maintain good relationships with direct wholesale customers, including central banks Swap funding between currencies to meet liquidity requirements and to minimise funding costs
•    Move funding between Treasury Markets desks as required
•    Participate in local central bank operations and facilities as required
•    Provide oversight to Treasury Services in ensuring adequate intra-day liquidity to facilitate all payments / to meet pay-in obligations with CLS (in relevant centres)
•    Liaise with the repo desk in order to manage a stock of eligible collateral for use within the LAB or act as intraday collateral for RTGS 

•    Preposition eligible securities at the local central bank to be used as backstop liquidity (where available)
•    Forecast and advise the CFO and Head, Treasury Markets, Singapore or SCBSL Hub delegate should there be a requirement to purchase securities to meet the statutory, stress, payments or prudent requirements
•    Forecast and advise the CFO and Head, Treasury Markets, Singapore or SCBSL Hub delegate, should there be a requirement to raise medium term funding

Processes

Discuss and agree with the Head, Treasury Markets, Singapore or SCBSL Hub delegate, to produce daily yield curves for the Bank’s marginal cost of funding in local and major foreign currencies, fixed and floating, for funds transfer from or to the rest of the Bank:-
•    Ensure this curve encourages an overall balance of liquidity yet does not unduly disadvantage any business unit
•    Provide oversight to ensure that liquidity risk from the commercial balance sheet is being transferred to Treasury Markets as per policy. Ensure that funding costs are accurately reflected, including the impact of stress; statutory holdings and the like
•    Manage the relationship with the local key stakeholders.

Risk Management

Operate within Treasury Market’s liquidity and credit limits:-
•    Provide oversight to Treasury Markets in MCO, Wholesale Borrowing, Stress test, MTF and swapped funds guideline, as detailed in the Treasury Risk limits
•    Flag any potential liquidity limit issues to local ALCO and Hub LM team in advance 
•    Flag any potential credit limit issues to local ALCO and Hub LM team in advance 
•    Request for temporary and permanent limits to GMR and Credit, where appropriate
•    Maintain desired ratios as directed by the Global Head of Liquidity

Governance

Understand and be able to act on the Country Liquidity Contingency Plan:-
•    Ensure a full understanding of what is expected of Treasury Markets if the plan is activated
•    Develop and maintain strong relationships with of the sources of standby and emergency liquidity, including central banks
•    Actively monitor for and immediately alert senior management on any evidence that the bank could be about to encounter funding stress
•    Were this plan ever to be activated, support the ALCO as the primary in-country agent for raising liquidity, under the direction of the HoTreasury Markets, Singapore, or SCBSL Hub delegate.

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

•    Internal Stakeholders: Other Treasury teams, Risk, Compliance, Business Stakeholders, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, ITOs
•    External Stakeholders: Clients, Local regulators & other Government Departments, Competition (other banks in respective markets)

Other Responsibilities

•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the ASEAN and Singapore Treasury-Markets team
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Qualifications

•    Education     Degree level
•    Training     Complete all required mandatory & developmental training - role specific, and regulatory/compliance bank wide
•    Licenses     As per local regulatory requirements
•    Membership     Per local regulatory requirements
•    Certifications     Per the local and global regulatory requirements
•    Languages     Business level Engl

Our Ideal Candidate

•  10+ years’ experience working in financial markets, with extensive knowledge of money market and fixed income instruments, broader financial market products and the regulatory environment
•  Highly motivated individual, able to work independently and as part of a team, is comfortable with ambiguity and effective in a fast-paced environment
•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proficient in data analysis.  Strong Excel and cash-flow modelling skills required.  Coding experience is desirable
•  Strong communication skills and the ability to liaise with a broad range of stakeholders internally and externall

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Risk Management - Market / Liquidity
•    Financial – Balance Sheet Management
•    Financial - Yield Curves
•    Bank Treasury Management – Treasury-Markets
•    FM Products – Money Markets
•    FM Products – Fixed Income Analysis
•    Treasury Operations - Liquidity Management

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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