Associate Director, FM Middle Office Credit

The Role Responsibilities

Business

• Financial Markets Middle Office was set up in 2016 to deliver first class trade support, business enablement and accurate / timely trade representation in order to meet obligations to clients, counterparties and regulators. We are product and process subject matter experts aligned to the Global Financial Markets business providing follow the sun support, a continuous improvement mindset and industry connectivity.

Processes

• Trade capture, coordination and life-cycling for vanilla Credit and Structured Credit products.
• Understanding and manage query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation, in order to minimise risk
• New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives and drive Operational readiness
• Challenge vendor costs / services across the lifecycle
• Operations representation for Sales and Trading, primary point of contact of local business teams
• Be up to date and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
• Adherence to Ops Risk Framework standards of implementation and process management.
• Periodic review of DOI, process note, daily check-list to ensure complete and accurate recording of process procedure
• Able to lead team members to initiate, plan and execute projects and initiatives. 

Local management of:

• Hubs: Drive global alignment and consistency, Follow The Sun support
• Local Market: standardize where applicable, tailored processes/controls

Operations representation for external/internal and regulator scheduled audits:

• Ensure Audit points are addressed within timelines

Drive continuous improvement and innovate:

• Partner with Technology to deliver transformation
• Work with FM and FMO stakeholders to identify booking model improvements and drive efficiency

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

• FM, FMO, Product Control, Finance, Risk, Legal, Operational Risk

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of relevant working experience in the middle office function and carrying out relevant support activities with in-depth knowledge of the relevant product and ideally experience as a team manager/team leader.
• In-depth knowledge of financial markets, credit derivatives, financing products and understanding of products front to back operation process.
• Possesses an analytical mindset along with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to confidently communicate, adapting one’s style to both Front Office and offshore colleagues.
• Demonstrate strong teamwork with internal and external groups
• Thrive on working in fast paced environment while maintaining attention to detail
• Fast learner with the ability to think out of the box and provide solutions
• Proficient in Excel (pivots, lookups and basic VBA an advantage)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Vanilla Credit products knowledge – Bond, CDS, Repo, TRS.
• Structured Credit products knowledge – TRCLN, BOLN, Bond TRS, Loan TRS, Structured Repo, Structured Rate Loan.
• Understanding of Risk and P&L
• System knowledge – Murex, Bloomberg, APEX.

About Standard Chartered 

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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