The Role Responsibilities
- Financial Markets Sales delivers comprehensive financing, risk management and investment solutions to the Bank’s corporate, government, and institutional clients.
- This is an exciting opportunity to join the successful and growing Bank and Broker Dealer sales team within Financial Markets, where you will be focused on cross-asset Repo financing and Rates products,
- You will work in close collaboration with trading, structuring, XVA, risk teams to deliver secured financing and rates solutions for the client base in UK/ Europe
Key responsibilities
- Contribute to the global franchise development reviewing all flows and market movements across the various regions, construct trade ideas and communicate to the wider teams
- Support the development of a productive working relationship with the client’s key decision makers through calling, visits, and provision of relevant ideas
- Work with Relationship Managers and Originate new clients with financing requirements
- Diligent coverage of the daily flow business meeting all required standards and procedures
- Assist the automation of product offering and daily tasks for the desk
- Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates
- Deliver on assigned tasks and projects
- Contribute towards identifying opportunities for the desks across geographies and client segments.
- Formulate marketing strategies and assist the team is organising client events
Skills required for the role
- Strong communication skills: verbal and written
- Ability to build a rapport with clients and internal stakeholders
- Prior experience in a financial markets role with exposure to Rates and/or Repo products.
- Good organisational skills and knowledge around onboarding clients, legal documentation, regulations, XVA will be beneficial
- Knowledge of Excel formulas and macros will be advantageous
Processes
- Ensure adherence to all internal and external regulations
- Ensure adherence with the obligations to prevent money laundering under the Group Policy and Standards and under local laws and regulations
- Contribute towards highlighting any need to update procedures and controls as a result of changes in products, systems, policy or regulations.
People and Talent
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations amongst colleagues and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
- Ensure active communication of priorities and progress to the business to foster engagement, awareness and motivation
- Contribute to continuous process improvement and sharing best practice.
Risk Management
- Adherence to all Group Policies and relevant legislation covering credit, operational, reputational risk among others
- Commitment to Group Code of Conduct
- Timely completion of all e-leaning, attestations and requests for information.
Governance
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
- Willingness to ‘speak up’ in the event of any realised or perceived breach of group conduct rules or laws by colleagues
- Willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner
Regulatory and 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.
- Support the Financial Markets team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Local regulator prescribed responsibilities
Key Stakeholders
- FM Regional Heads
- FM Management Teams
- FM Trading, Sales, Structuring, Financing and Research Teams
- Product Partners
- Technology, Finance, Control & Risk Functions
- Legal and Compliance
- Credit and Market Risk Officers
Other Responsibilities
- Demonstrate Here for good and Group’s brand and values in daily behaviour
- Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Our Ideal Candidate
Role Specific Competencies
- FM Product Knowledge
- Ability to contribute to BBD business with suggestions and ideas, requirement to analyse data and contribute to strategy.
- Understanding that there will be time pressure and deadlines.
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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