Executive Director, Equity Financing & Derivatives - Convertible Bond Trading

Responsibilities

• Drive the convertible bond financing and trading activity for Equity Financing Derivatives (EFD)
• Automate and Straight Through Processing (STP) as many back office and middle office processes as possible
• Work with Financial Markets (FM) Sales and Relationship Manager (RM)'s in the various regions to promote products
• Work with the Head of EFD to deliver the overall product in a coordinated fashion
• Awareness and understanding of the strategy and business model of the Group and Global Credit, as appropriate to the role
• Maximise total product income by ensuring effective end to end client identification, risk management, service and infrastructure
• Work in conjunction with other partners to ensure SCB has a best-in-class equity offering

• Primary goal is to drive the PNL around trading convertible bonds.
• Secondary goal is to back up the rest of team and help drive new initiatives for EFD overall
• Achieving assigned full year objectives as per annual Performance Review (P3) document
• Accountable for setting achievable performance targets relating to business
• Help manage the implementation of Funds and Structured Products strategies and ensure that performance objectives and revenue goals are met and Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) targets managed
• Active performance monitoring - spot areas of underperformance and take corrective action

Requirements

Qualifications
• Education - Good engineering degree and proven ability to handle quantitative models
Training
• Substantial experience of and demonstrated success in structured or flow Credit Trading
• Must possess sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Ability to work with geographically dispersed and highly varied stakeholders

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.