Job Summary
• The role will support the Markets Country Business Manager (CBM) and the Markets Country Head in managing and running the Markets business in-country.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
• Execute and implement the local Markets strategy and business initiatives
• Execute and deliver the global Markets agenda locally
Business
• Partner with local support functions and stakeholders to unblock any business issues
• Keep up to date with local regulations to assess impact / business opportunities and manage any changes to business processes and infrastructure
• Provide business support on dealing room management (capacity planning, business continuity, access controls, SLAs, licensing, etc.)
• Business budgeting and forecasting where required
• Drive and manage a prudent cost culture
Processes
• Be the “connector” between global and local and export best practices
• Continuously seek out process simplification and re-engineering opportunities to improve operational efficiency
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders and ensure submissions are made on a timely basis
• Ensure that submissions are accurate, complete, reconciled (where relevant), and meet regulatory requirements
People & Talent
• Operate effective supervision of Markets, Banking, Treasury Markets and CMPS staff in the dealing room, where applicable
Risk Management
• Identify, assess and mitigate operational risks in-country
• Execute controls, monitor, report and escalate operational risks where appropriate in-country
• Ensure dealing room staff adhere to internal and external processes, procedures and governance standards set by the Markets Process Governance Committees
• Support the Markets Country Head in supervising and coordinating in-country audits
Governance
• Support the Markets Country Head in running the Business Risk Forums (BRFs)
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.
• Lead the HK 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.
Key stakeholders
• Markets Heads
• Local front office desk heads, including TM, and CMPS
• Markets Cluster COOs
• Product COOs – Banking, Credit, Macro, Sales
• Compliance, local and global
• Operational Risk, local and global
• Markets Audit
• Markets Operations
• Traded Credit and Market Risk
• Finance, local and global
• CIO, local, and global
• Regulators / regulatory bodies local
Other Responsibilities
• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in HK Markets; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Skills and Experience
• Markets Products
• Project Management
• Governance and Control
• Analytical and Presentation Skill
• Risk Management
• Managing Change
Qualifications
• Educaton: Finance / banking preferable
• Certifications: Accounting, financial risk manager qualification preferable but not mandatory
• Languages: English, Mandarin
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.