Lead, Structuring

Key Responsibilities

• Work with respective Product Heads, Sales Heads and in-country Heads of Financial Markets to help grow the structured credit business in line with SCB’s overall strategy.
• Provide inputs for the Regional Credit Structuring team to drive service excellence via robust product support, bespoke solutions and strategic cross-asset guidance.
• Ensure that the Financial Markets structured credit product suite is delivered regionally with demonstrable Client focus in support of our objective to become core bank to our clients.
• Help build Product and Client Structuring business regionally and ensure the continuing growth and stability of the business.
• Work with respective FM Product teams and relevant Regional/Country Heads, identify the initiatives needed to grow the Credit Structuring business on a short, medium and long-term basis.
• Help to build good working partnerships between CIB teams, Product teams and FM sales teams in the region in order to provide a seamless and coordinated interface to our Clients in delivering our structured credit products and services.
• Work in partnership with stakeholders to deliver new product capabilities to enhance efficiency and expansion of the business.
• Structuring is not responsible under the ORF (Operational Risk Framework) as 1st & 2nd line; for executing / completing, and for supervising any of the FM processes.

Additional Responsibilities

• Enforce a culture of risk management and ensure that the teams comply with the risk management processes in place.
• Provide impartial guidance of matters of product / client appropriateness and suitability.
• Discourage transactions with unmanageable market risk profiles.
• Ensure that adequate and appropriate systems and controls are in place to comply with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those governing all Risk types, Compliance, Technology and Operations, Finance and Reputation.
• Escalate any risk issues and concentrations. Where appropriate, carry out remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting.
• Protect the stability, long-term sustainability and reputation of the Bank.
• 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 team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles including but not limited to Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance etc.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

• Financial Risk Management.
• Quantitative Techniques.
• Securities Laws and Regulations (SLR) Compliance.
• Portfolio Management.
• Market Risk.

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.