Business

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Technology, Transformation & Operations (TTO) has a dedicated Financial Market Operations which supports the market clients and products within Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB). FM Operations has responsibility for the execution, control and continuous improvement of processes to support our Products & Clients. FMO has 3 distinct functions – Product Management, Regional/Country oversight and Processing Functions (Service Providers). This role has oversight for product management of Financial Market Commodity Operations including Futures, Listed and OTC Derivatives and Physical Commodities.

Processes

• Maintenance of brokers, contracts, accounts in the banks systems to ensure STP trade flow
• Top Day Trade Monitoring and allocations for ICE Group, CME Group (NYMEX, COMEX, CBOT) and LME and other exchanges as required/ onboarded.
• Monitoring Lifecyle events and clearing
• Trade and Position Reconciliation
• Front Office – Back Office (FOBO) Reconciliations
• Open interest management
• Managing intra-day and EOD cash margin calls
• Option Abandonment/Exercise/Expiry
• MIFID II CPR Position Reporting and CME/ CFTC Large Trader (Position Reporting) to the relevant exchanges
• CME FX Delivery Process
• Balance Sheet Substantiation and Accounting management
• Back Office system processing and EOD running
• Collateral management

Skills And Experience

Required Experience:

• Subject matter expert on Exchange Traded Derivatives with a core understanding trade and post trade processes
• ETD trade, position and cash reconciliations inclusive of fees & commission management
• Additional knowledge of expiry and trade life-cycling is highly desirable.
• Minimum 3 years Financial Markets experience ideally from a top tier bank.
• Understanding of front to back process and systems flows
• Strong understanding of commodities products including Base Metals, Precious Metals, Structured Inventory
• Product, Energy, Power & Gas. Financial and physical knowledge needed and highly advantageous.
• Knowledge of Carbon Emissions and Voluntary Carbon Credits and experience of ICE Endex and CBL exchanges desirable.

Required Skills

• Analytical and process improvement mindset
• Strong inter-personal skills:
  • Confident communicator able to adapt style to Front Office and Hubs colleagues.
  • Ability to influence demanding individuals.
  • Demonstrate strong teamwork and values mindset.
• 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.
• Knowledge of vendor systems supporting ETDs (ION XTP, FIS, GMI or equivalent) Bloomberg, Murex v2.11 and v3.1 preferable plus LME SMART, LME SELECT, ICE Admin, ICE FEC, ICE ECS, CME Deliveries Plus, CME FEC
• Proficient in Excel (pivots, lookups and basic VBA an advantage)

Role Specific Technical Skills And Competencies

• Internal Controls
• Operational Functions
• Process Improvement
• Products and Services
• Relationship Management
• Risk Management

Qualifications

Education

• University degree preferred

Languages

• Mandarin will add advantage

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.