Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Financial Markets has expertise combined with deep local market knowledge to deliver a variety of risk management, financing and investment solutions to our clients. The FM team offers capabilities across origination, structuring, sales, trading and research. Offering a full suite of fixed income, currencies, commodities, equities and capital markets solutions, FM has firmly established itself as a trusted partner with extensive on-the-ground knowledge and deep relationships.
• Within FM, the Modelling & Analytics Group (\xe2\x80\x98MAG\xe2\x80\x99) is accountable for design, development and delivery of real-time pricing models, risk models, and core infrastructure, enabling intraday and daily pricing and risk management activities, and portfolio level analytics including reporting and capital computation.
• The purpose of this role is to lead all aspects of Macro business-related model change management delivery globally for FM MAG group outside the core capabilities of quant modelling and writing applications. This leadership role includes strategic design and planning of delivery to requirements set by the Global Head of Macro Trading and their senior leadership team; syndication and stakeholder management with Macro MT, Global Head RMA, Global Head TRM, CIO FM IT, Global Head Traded Risk GMV, Global Head FM Middle Office and other senior leadership; programme and project management both within MAG and in partnership with FM IT where applicable; and driving to completion the delivery and production release of business change.

Strategy

• Through business engagement identify additional project delivery opportunities for business growth, cost savings and improved business risk management
• Facilitate business strategy design and gathering of project-specific business requirements
• Always balance tactical deliveries - supporting business needs - with the long-term strategic development of the platform

Business

• Build and collaborate with a network of expert contributors to explore design response to strategy and business requirements in order to distil options and make recommendations for senior management decision
• Work with technical teams, vendors and quantitative specialists to facilitate delivery of new products/payoffs and to achieve better financial performances with through deeper liquidity and better tools and algorithm to price, internalize flows and manage risks
• Work with clients in conjunction with Relationship Managers, and other colleagues in sales, research and trading to develop a thorough understanding of each prospective client\xe2\x80\x99s electronic trading needs

Processes

• The candidate must be familiar with project reporting across multiple audiences from working groups to steering committees and provide reporting to numerous programmes as well as have experience running complex programmes and multiple books of work simultaneously
• Ensure that governance of each project is established and adding value to delivery
• Ensure all projects, releases, processes, change requests respect internal policies and frameworks and pass internal audits. The candidate must have direct experience of facilitating delivery of projects into production/BAU use in a financial institution and understand the nuances of the different levels required to have a systems optimally supported, retain flexibility in release and ensure the solution is cost effective
• Manage escalations, ensures all teams addresses issues and questions pro-actively and diligently. Be able to deep dive in questions whenever required.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations amongst colleagues and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure active communication of vision, priorities and progress to the business to foster engagement, awareness and motivation
• Contribute to continuous process improvement and sharing best practice.

Risk Management

• Adherence to all Group Policies and relevant legislation covering credit, operational, reputational risk among others.
• Commitment to Group Code of Conduct
• Timely completion of all e-learning, attestations and requests for information.
• Ensure miss matched or failed trades are dealt swiftly as per process and that appropriate risk flags raised
• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them

Governance

• Ensure that governance of each project is established and adding value to delivery
• Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
• Ensure adherence to governance and to all local and global regulations relevant to the product line.
• Demonstrate a willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner where required

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• MAG and Global Resource Management

• Macro Trading, Structuring, Sales

• Product management teams

• Risk Functions (e.g., Traded Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk, Operational Risk)

• Operations and Middle Office (e.g., Sabre Middle Office)

• Product Control and Finance

• Group Model Validation

• FM IT

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5 plus years of experience in Banking Industry in a Financial Markets Environment.
• Project manager experience with strong interpersonal skills at senior levels. Able to bring consensus and drive arbitrages.
• Experience working in a Front Office environment, facing heads of desks. Ability to work, prioritise and deliver under pressure.
• Solid Financial knowledge, including analytics and models. Experience in counterparty credit risk and regulatory capital is a plus.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project Manager expertise and strong interpersonal skills at senior levels.
• Able to bring consensus and drive arbitrages.
• Self-starter, delivery oriented with a \xe2\x80\x9cCan do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude. Able to navigate through the bank\xe2\x80\x99s IT, remove blockers and deliver solutions to the business.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of Business Communication (written and spoken)
• Multicultural awareness, personal authority, integrity, and ethics

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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