Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Overview

We are looking for motivated and outstanding candidates to join the Financial Markets Operations (FMO) team. You will need passion, tenacity, and resilience in an ever-changing environment.

We welcome graduates from a diverse range of degree disciplines. Bring your hard-working attitude, and we will invest in your learning and capabilities to be future leaders in our organization.

About Financial Markets Operations

We are a global operations team supporting the financial markets business by providing operations solutions in foreign exchange, rates, commodities, credit markets, and financing and securities services.

We operate in 40 countries and employ some 3000 colleagues globally. Our mission is to support financial markets to increase return on tangible equity for our shareholders safely, sustainably, and securely.

About our Program

Graduates who join our program will go through a learning and development journey before being placed into our operations roles. During this learning journey, we will invest in helping you build the skills and capabilities needed to succeed in a career in operations. In this excellent learning environment, we will provide you with domain knowledge of our products and other technical and meta-skills relevant to being a successful operations professional of the future.

We provide opportunities for you to engage with our senior leaders globally, pitch your ideas and demonstrate your problem-solving skills. You will be assigned a mentor to advise you and be a sounding board to support you throughout your journey.

We help you build relationships as we recognize that your network of contacts is an invaluable asset throughout your career. Our program will challenge you to be the best version of yourself and as an exceptional candidate to own your development.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which FMO operates.

Processes

• Basic understanding of FMO processes to be able to carry out entry level tasks.

Risk Management

• Ensure effective first line identification, management, monitoring and reporting of risks is undertaken in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) in a way that is consistent with the authority and responsibilities of the role.
• Effective management of operational risks and compliance with all applicable internal policies, external laws and regulation.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which FMO operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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

• Specialist FMO Graduate Programme and L&D Onboarding
• FMO MT, LT and colleagues
• Business Leaders, Risk / compliance and control partners and Country HRBPs

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree holder (Less than 2 years completion and / 2 years of working experience)
• Professional Qualification (ACCA / CIMA) - Completed / Pursuing Level 3 or Masters (Less than 2 years completion and / 2 years of working experience)

Qualities

• Positive mindset, agile and Well-rounded individuals (Ability to collaborate, be curious and have fun)
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and judgement skills
• Results oriented, attention to detail, and good research abilities
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Contributions to your community (e.g. volunteering) will be an added advantage
• Basic / Intermediate proficiency in MS Office suite (ie. Word, Excel and Power Point)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Disruptive Innovation
• Financial Services Industry
• Internal Controls
• Operational Functions
• Planning, Tactical, Strategic
• Process Improvement
• Process Management
• Products and Services
• Relationship Management
• Risk Management

\xc2\xadAbout 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 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 - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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