Our Role

Financial Markets Middle Office was established in 2016 to provide world-class trade support, business enablement and accurate and timely trade representation to meet obligations to clients, counterparties and regulators. We are product and process experts aligned to the Global Financial Markets business, providing follow the sun support, a continuous improvement mindset and industry connectivity. 

Job Summary

Trade Control Exception Management staff is responsible to ensure robust Control framework and governance mechanism across FM Macro Business manual trade bookings and Cancel & Amends. Collaborate with Trade Validation Control and FO Supervision functions to ensure effective trade and position Control execution towards managing FM Business Risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery for Exception Management Control across FOBO, FOFO and Interface system exception monitoring and reconciliation break resolution to ensure data integrity and completeness.
• FO Supervision Controls to monitor Trading risk positions, trade capture timelines, Regulatory Compliance and Rogue trading Controls to identify and escalate any exceptions.
• Trade Validation Control involving deal review against external source across OTC products and regions for FM Business. Execute Controls and Reporting, to ensure Risk captured accurately in system compliant to product Booking models.
• New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives and ensure Operational readiness.
• Manage query remediation, other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation to minimise risk exposure.
• Collaborate with FMO Front Office including Trading and Sales Desks and Business COO to support Business Enablement initiatives and Control framework.
• Build strong relationship with internal teams across Ops, Finance, Risk and Technology to facilitate efficient Collaboration and speedy resolution of issues.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovate. 
• Achieve Regulatory and Conduct Compliance and future proof the Middle Office model through a strong understanding of current rules and anticipation of upcoming regulations.
• Adherence to Ops Risk Framework standards of implementation and process management.
• Oversight of Daily Productivity, KPI, KCI and Capacity metrics.

Skills and Experience

• University degree in related subject (preferably in Finance).
• Minimum 5 years of Financial Markets experience - ideally from a top tier bank.
• Previous experience in trade validation. 
• Knowledge of OTC Products: FX, FX Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Commodities, Credit Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Money Market and ESG products.  
• Deep understanding of Financial Markets business and front to back Operational processes. 
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office package (MS Excel and MS Word). 
• Basic knowledge of Power BI and VBA Macro. 
• Proficient communication in English (articulation and writing).
• Strong analytical skills and capability for self-directed research and work.
• Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across country, region, business, and group stakeholders.
• Sharp business acumen, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Availability to work within a shift model to cover US time zone. 

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.