Associate, FM Sales

Job Summary

• Macro sales role for BBD clients including Central banks, Private banks, Regional and International banks.
• Develop a thorough understanding of each allocated customer’s business, and understanding of their potential needs for Financial Markets products;
• Responsible for marketing, ideation and execution of client trades in adherence to SCB values, conduct and compliance requirements.
• Cross selling of all Macro products including FX, Fixed income, Options as well as the e-platforms and onshore markets access.
• High level of autonomy and able to work independently within the team and stakeholders including clients, prospects, trading, structuring and infrastructure partners.
• Ensure adherence to all internal and external regulations.
• Ensure that all processes in country are adhered to in line with approved policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Achieve budget goals.
• Provide seamless backup for colleagues as required.
• Help deliver the strategic direction and performance of BBD sales by working with the local as well as global sales team.
• Identify various cross sell opportunities for the various parts of the bank with the target set of investors.
• Actively engage Structuring, Trading, Relationship and Risk Management teams to facilitate optimum client risk solutions.
• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.

Processes

• Liaising with clients and executing trades and orders in line with SCB’s policy and procedures consistent with all FM Sales staff globally including Order Handling, Record Keeping and Best Execution.
• Accountable for ensuring appropriate frameworks and operational infrastructures are in place to enable the business processes to be efficient, appropriate and compliant with internal policies, procedures, codes and applicable external laws and regulations.
• Monitor the utilization of each client’s trading limits with SCB, obtain specific approval for any excess likely to arise as a result of a particular transaction.
• Continued provision of best in class service to help build the financial markets relationship. Taking responsibility for the global financial market’s relationship for key clients where appropriate. This will require liaison with Relationship Managers and SCB product specialists.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management

• Adherence to all Group Policies and relevant legislation covering product, operational, reputational risk among others.
• Commitment to Group Code of Conduct.
• Timely completion of all e-learning, attestations, expenses and requests for information.

Governance

• Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas.
• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Willingness to ‘speak up’ in the event of any realized or perceived breach of group conduct rules or laws by colleagues.
• Willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.

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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate

• 2+ years of experience in Financial Markets Sales Macro Products with bank clients is required.
• Fresh graduate with Business Administration degree can also be considered.
• Strong knowledge in Macro Products including FX, Fixed income, Options as well is preferred.

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.

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