Key Responsibilities
Trade Settlement:
• Processing of Settlements transactions, Reporting of Trade Status,
• Ensuring that all the trades that ought to have been sent to the market have actually been sent and the status updated in System.
• Checking of Funds and Holdings prior to settlements
• In case of Failed trades, the same have been updated with the correct reasons
• Contractual Settlements processing
• Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
• To ensure all control/operating procedure and documentations are properly followed.
• To ensure compliance to all established procedures, regulations and the Group Guidelines.
• To keep track of changes (internal and external) affecting Clients and communicate such changes, along with impact analyses, on a pro-active basis, through newsflashes, market insights, operations guides and through other routine communication.
Strategy
• Client First approach to handling processing.
• To ensure all control/operating procedure and documentations are properly followed.
• To ensure compliance to all established procedures, regulations and the Group Guidelines.
• To keep track of changes (internal and external) affecting Clients and communicate such changes, along with impact analyses, on a pro-active basis, through newsflashes, market insights, operations guides and through other rout
Business
• Client First approach to handling processing.
• To keep track of changes (internal and external) affecting Clients and communicate such changes, along with impact analyses, on a pro-active basis, through newsflashes, market insights, operations guides and through other routine communication.
Processes
• Other than the listed R&R, the candidate should have a flair for learning and process improvement
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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
• GBS Operation leads, Country operation leads, Front Office and middle office
Skills and Experience
• Securities / Trade Settlement Operations (Fixed Income)
• Settlement Markets, Custodians & Depositories
• SWIFT & Securities Settlement Messaging
• Trade Matching, Confirmation & Exception Management
• Reconciliation, Risk & Operational Controls
• Settlement Systems / Platforms
Qualifications
• Graduate/Postgraduate with 6+ years of relevant work experience in the following areas:
• Trade Settlements and Mutual Fund Investment Management
• Exposure to Regional / Domestic Settlements operations, SWIFT Tags.
• Hands on experience in handling systems such as Clearstream / Euroclear / BBH/BNY will be added advantage.
• Knowledge of various settlement markets and swift message formatting
• Knowledge of allied products like corporate actions, Fund services and reference data will be an added advantage
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.