Job Summary
Service Delivery & Efficiency
• Primary point of contact for external clients in terms of providing solutions, enquiries, complaints, resolving of discrepancies and transactional errors.
• Ensure the provision of the highest standards of client service in response to client enquiries and complaints in order to deliver best in class client service.
• Ensure incidents are managed and resolved in a timely manner. Actively engage with internal stakeholders and support functions to overcome obstacles in resolution of incidents while providing timely updates to client and internally on progress made.
• Maximize the GEMS work tool to gain efficiency in directing and resolving client queries along with incident escalation protocol.
• Proactive client engagement and regular “pulse checks” for premier clients through due diligence visits, service reviews, proactive communication of market news, deeper understanding of clients’ need end-to-end, questionnaires completion, RFP, etc.
• Use CIBCS platform to ensure client complains are logged timely and accurately for auto-system escalation communications to the appropriate senior management levels responsible to ensure full resolution of client issues and regularly update client on progress if the issue is taking longer than expected.
• Maintain a professional and positive SCB image through all interactions with clients.
• Continually identify opportunities to improve client efficiency and performance, through e.g. optimizing channel usage, identifying service improvements, product solutions, and cross-sell opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Risk & Control
• Full awareness of the Bank’s risk management approach through 1st, 2nd, 3rd line of defense
• Thematic analysis and review of client issues and complains in order to identify root causes and remediation actions.
• Uphold highest level of code of conduct o ensure full compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures.
• No exception to completing mandatory trainings timely.
• Comply with Operational Risk Framework set out for Client Service including but not limited to client identification, complaints and enquiry handling.
• Comply with applicable Money Laundering Prevention Procedures and, in particular, report any suspicious activity to the Unit Money Laundering Prevention Officer and Line Manager.
• Adhere to policies including escalation and compliance requirements, and follow any other relevant internal controls and procedures as they relate to process, products, policies and regulations.
Operational Excellence
• Assist in implementation of service and efficiency improvement initiatives in Securities Services and facilitate transfer of best practice
Premier Client Service
• Participate in annual or as agreed Service Reviews for premier clients.
• Reviewing service performance with the clients and generate ways to continuously improve service level standards
• Periodically, accompanying BAMs on sales calls to sell our service capabilities and/or to resolve clients’ operational and service issues
• Provide pro-active client updates
• Leveraging on metrics and client insights to understand client’s needs, and identify opportunities for improvements in service, product solutions, utilization and optimizing channel usage, up-selling and cross-selling etc.
• Making proactive calls on clients to improve the utilization level of facilities, increase transaction volume, identify opportunities for channels and referrals for the business
• Build trusted partnerships with clients at the daily transactional / operational level
• Follow up with clients to complete/ participate in market survey
Key stakeholders
Internal
• Client Coverage
• Group and Regional Product
• FSS Sales and RMs
• Risk Manager
• Functional teams and functional partners, CFCC, Legal, SSO
External
• Key clients and potential clients
• Key market participants, i.e. key brokers/dealers, industry group
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.
Skills and Experience
• Client Service Skills
• Industry Knowledge
• English language
Qualifications
Education Bachelor or Master
Licenses Trust License, Internal Audit & Control
Languages Fluent in English & Chinese, Taiwanese preferrable
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.