Job Summary
Financial Markets eTrading has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive multi-year year product roadmap. The FM eTrading technology team is a specialist team of individuals hired to evolve the bank’s single dealer and multi dealer platform services in a way that will differentiate Standard Chartered in the markets it participates in.
Business*
Forthcoming roadmaps include adding new asset classes to the platform, implementing regulatory changes, building more sophisticated hedging tools and generally implementing new initiatives to make the eCommerce business more competitive and successful in the marketplace.
Business Knowledge Requirements:
• Experience of working in the eCommerce technology function of an Investment Bank, Financial Services Company or Technology Company.
• Understanding of pricing for FX products (Spot, Forward, Swap,NDFs)
• Understanding of different types of order products (resting, algo)
• Understanding of FX cash product hedging
• Understanding of the broad landscape of an eCommerce environment
• Understanding of post trade workflows for eCommerce activity
• Understanding of the various bodies of regulation that impacts financial markets today
Key Responsibilities
Processes
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large multi-asset eTrading trading system development team that is distributed between London, Singapore and Bangalore. The successful candidate is expected to:
• Capture requirements to a good level of detail to cover all scenarios and permutations
• Breakdown requirements to support the Agile methodology and produce stories that are easy for development teams to pick up
• Experienced in the delivery of complex software delivery projects in an agile environment
• Experienced in ADO and Confluence tools to facilitate requirements capture
• Experienced in managing stake holders
Governance
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 the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles:Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environmen
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Skills and Experience
Key stakeholders
· Provide coordination and project management to ensure successful delivery of projects
· Act as an intermediary between business stakeholders and the development team
· Assist in the requirement gathering with a multitude of stakeholders from different disciplines within the bank and of different levels of seniority
Other Responsibilities
· Have the knowledge and confidence to apply critical thinking to make the necessary decisions to progress the project. And at the same time, understand the limits of their responsibility & expertise and know when to solicit decisions from other members of the project (business or technology)
· Help rollout features to business users post go-live
Our Ideal Candidate
· 12+ years’ Experience of working in the eCommerce technology function of an Investment Bank, Financial Services Company or Technology Company
· Analyse and understand requirements from stakeholders. Challenge status quo and the reflex of solutioning, focus on the core requirements
· Assist in the requirement gathering with a multitude of stakeholders from different disciplines within the bank and of different levels of seniority
· Partner with technology team to deliver strategic solution by consistently enhancing the product
· Responsible for comprehensive E2E testing of the product and leading discussions as a change agent
· Ability to manage stakeholders effectively.
· Be an active member of the scrum team, contributing to the solution build and delivery, reviewing test cases, closing out open issues/questions, assisting with sprint planning and retrospective
· Understanding of the various bodies of regulation that impacts financial markets today
· Have the knowledge and confidence to apply critical thinking to make the necessary decisions to progress the project. And at the same time, understand the limits of their responsibility & expertise and know when to solicit decisions from other members of the project (business or technology)
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· FX, Orders and lifecycle knowledge
· FX Cash Products, Money market products on Single Dealer or Multi-Dealer platforms (Dealer-to-Client) e.g. ION or Bloomberg
· In depth FX Cash pricing knowledge
· Experience of working as a technical BA in front office in the investment banking industry
· Experience working on multiple FX ecommerce system
· Understanding of FIX APIs
· Knowledge of client algos
· Understanding of hedging workflows
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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