Job Summary
- This headcount is part of the CMPS (Capital Markets Products and Sales) Team focusing on offering Direct Access service (DACS) to Private Banking clients.
- DACs team offer a bespoke FX margin trading service to sophisticated private banking clients who are active in the asset class.
- Responsible for driving DACS revenue, providing proactive advisory directly to clients including idea generation, margin & risk management and execution support.
- Work closely with Private Bank Front Office in new DACS clients prospecting.
- Providing backup support to team in ensuring continual client coverage.
- Ensuring compliance with all internal and regulatory requirements.
- Maintaining good relationship and to work closely with internal and external stakeholders including the front, middle and back offices.
- Providing support to ad hoc projects in relation to specific aspects of desk activities.
Key Responsibilities
Business
- Achieve yearly team FX target with awareness of risk and control
Processes
- Ensure awareness of execution processes and deliver quality execution service. Ability to identify and suggest ways of enhancements to existing processes.
Risk Management
- To proactively manage risk for both bank and clients
Governance
- Awareness of overall business 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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Degree(s) in relevant subjects such as Business, Economics and Finance related preferred.
- 7 plus years experience in a bank with FX margin trading experience.
- Experience in FX margin trading, with experience in direct handling of PB clients preferred.
- Proficiency in mandarin is preferred, as the role will require regular interaction with Chinese clients.
- Ability to work with a high level of attention to details to ensure quality trade execution.
- Required to perform holiday duties & early shifts.
- Ability to work under a fast paced environment.
- Good in internal and external stakeholders management.
- Strong work ethic with high level of self-motivation and initiative.
- RNF and CACS holder is required.
- CMFAS Qualifications is required - Paper 1A or 1B, 5, 6, 6A, 8, 8A as well as CACS 1, CACS 2 and FMRP.
- Basic analytical and technical skills that can be practically applied to day-to-day operations.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Analytical Thinking
- Market Knowledge
- Products and Processes
- Understand FX as an asset class
- Understand FX margin trading
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.
Recruitment Assessments
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