Associate Director, Middle Office

Job Responsibilities

• Subject matter exposure of Rates & FX products in terms of product characteristics, risk, market data and P&L:
• Work with internal teams to develop and deliver solutions to improve client experience and generate additional revenue
• Provide day-to-day support to both Trading and Sales activities
• Perform relationship management functions including day-to-day support.
• Work with regional and global teams to facilitate a "follow the sun" support model
• Work with the COO business and technology/project teams on new product offerings
• Support, manage and execute regional/global initiatives
• General communication with Counter parties, IT Support, Credit, Operations, Front Office, Legal and Product Controllers
• New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic Rates initiatives.
• Constantly seek opportunities to improve global consistency, work closely across functions and other regions to close gaps and standardise processes.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders to solve immediate day to day issues with transactions as well as understand their longer terms needs to shape business decisions in Middle Office
• Build strong relationship with internal teams to facilitate efficient communications and speedy resolutions of issues
• Understand the Rates products lifecycle from front to back and be the subject matter expert and key team member for the core systems processing.
• New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives.
• Engage with industry bodies and vendors to identify opportunities to enhances processes and systems and drive efficiency

Job Requirements

Our Ideal Candidate
• University degree preferred
• 5 years of minimum relevant experience in Middle Office Operations with relevant structured product knowledge including Rates & FX products
• English and Chinese preferred

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Process Improvement
• Managing Change
• Operational Functions
• Macro
• Operations Back Office

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.