Middle Office, Specialist

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role Responsibilities

• Trade capture, coordination and life-cycling for both vanilla and structured products of Fixed Income, Credit Vanilla and Derivatives, Financing 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
• Local management of:
  • Hubs: Drive global alignment and consistency, Follow The Sun support
  • Local Market: standardize where applicable, tailored processes/controls
• Challenge vendor costs / services across the lifecycle
• Operations representation for Sales and Trading, primary point of contact of local business teams
• 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
• 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.

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.

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

• University degree preferred

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience required.
• Team Lead Experience is an advantage.
• Proficient knowledge of Financial products Fixed Income, Credit vanilla and derivatives, Financing (loan, note).
• Expert knowledge of Credit derivatives and Financing structured product preferred.
• Understanding of products front to back operation process.
• Analytical mindset
• Strong inter-personal skills:
• Confident communicator - able to adapt style to 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)

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
front officesubject matter expertsproduct controlfinancial marketstrade supportfixed incomefinancial productsmiddle officecredit derivativesstructured products