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<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Summary</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">The role holder plays a leading role in relation to Market Risk Management related activities in the Traded Risk Management (TRM) function. Specifically, this role focuses on assessing the risk, implementing controls, investigating and escalating breaches, daily monitoring of risk exposures across all asset class. The role holder is also responsible to manage the team, guiding and holding accountability of the teams’ deliverables.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Key Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• To uphold the integrity of the Group's risk/return decisions, and in particular for ensuring that market risks for Rates , Commodities, Credit Trading (Flow, Structured, ABS, Loans, Repo and Equity), Global Credit Markets “GCM” (Bond and Loan Underwriting), FX Trading, FX Options are properly assessed, that risk/return decisions in these areas are made transparently on the basis of this proper assessment and are controlled in accordance with the Group's Risk Appetite.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• To ensure the Risk Management Framework is effectively embedded in Market Risk.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• To exercise direct Risk Control Ownership for Market Risk.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• To ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Daily monitoring of risk exposures</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Perform market risk related control, including investigation of all limit excesses and escalating limit breaches. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Assess risk through established process and highlight concerns to senior Traded Risk Management for consideration</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Define and review the market risk control limits on a semi – annual and adhoc basis ensuring that these activities operate within risk appetite. Monitor adherence to these limits, developing new reports where necessary.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Review risks of issues as they arise in day-to-day operations and determine the appropriate course of action, flagging out concerns to senior Traded Risk Management staff where necessary.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Collaborate with other stakeholders to oversee the management of the business including the drafting of policies, standards and procedures and reviewing testing and development.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Liaising with front office on new trades approval, booking requirements, and limits</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Participation in ad hoc projects and requests (eg as required by senior management, internal and external audit, other SC departments)</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Provide risk / market analysis on key markets for daily/weekly/monthly risk updates (highlight key risk issues where appropriate) and provide ad hoc analysis as required on an event basis.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Build a technical understanding of various products and limits structure</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Assist senior managers to prepare market commentary</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Perform data quality review of VaR time series</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Liaise with traders and Market Risk teams regarding market data issues affecting P&L and risk.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Develop familiarity with the market data related static data in Risk Infrastructure (SABRE) and Asset Control.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Assist with new market data set up and associated historical rate generation where required.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Strategy</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Encourage the development of an appropriate risk culture and discipline within the team. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Inform the development of strategy planning work related to Market risk.</span><br><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Business</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Adapt and communicate the strategic intent and collective agenda for Traded Risk Management.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Maintain and develop the Traded Risk Management capabilities, skills and infrastructure to meet ongoing business needs and plans.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Meet regulatory reporting requirements.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Processes</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Run, review and adapt all processes where a member of Traded Risk Management is the identified first line process owner.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure effective management of operational risks within the Function and compliance with applicable internal policies, and external laws and regulations.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Continuously improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of Market Risk </span><br><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">People & Talent</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values within Traded Risk Management and across the wider organisation.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Train and guide team members of the Traded Risk Analyst team.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Risk Management</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure that the exposures in the risk reports are correctly computed before being reported to the management.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Assess the Market risk profile of the Group and maintain alignment with risk appetite by rebalancing of risks or controls that may be required in response to internal and external factors.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Analyse and present trade and limit request to the senior management, including structured transactions.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Initiate a stress test and scenario analysis programme for Market risk, review the results and assess their implications.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure that effective management response plans are in place to respond to extreme but plausible Scenarios.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Perform data maintenance and analysis tasks for all Financial Market products.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Perform regular regulatory reporting tasks.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Uphold the integrity of risk/return decisions, by challenging business and control function heads to demonstrate that risk origination and control decisions are properly informed and consistent with strategy and risk appetite.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Direct appropriate response to material events or other risk issues that come to the TRM's attention.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Provide balanced and informed assessment of Market risks from acquisitions and major change initiatives.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Design, maintain and effectively communicate a framework for setting Market risk control parameters across the Group, including policies, control standards, risk exposure limits and other control levers in order to maintain the Group's risk profile in line with the overall risk appetite set by the Board.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Challenge the effectiveness of risk control activities and address any significant gaps or weaknesses that may exist.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Maintain a good understanding of the requirements of the Group's key external stakeholders in respect of Market risk management and ensure these are well understood internally and reflected in internal procedures.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Obtain assurance regarding the effectiveness of Market risk controls and compliance with applicable laws & regulations.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Review, in consultation with Finance, valuation and product control policies and procedures.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Governance</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Align the Group's Market risk management approach to the Risk Management Framework and oversee its effective application.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Develop and maintain risk identification, measurement and modelling capabilities that are objective, consistent and compliant with applicable regulations.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure that material risk exposures and related issues are reported to the responsible risk governance committees and to the Board Risk Committee.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Ensure effective mechanisms are in place to assign Market risk authorities to suitable named individuals in line with their skills and judgement. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealings with regulators.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Regulatory & Business Conduct</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• 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.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"></H2> </div><div><p><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Key stakeholders</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Internal:</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Global Head of various Asset Class</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Heads of Trading for various asset class</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Markets COO Office</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Business and Product Heads</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Group Internal Audit</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Group Enterprise Risk</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Group Operational Risk </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Group Compliance</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Market Risk Reporting Team</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Middle Office Team</span><br><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">External:</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Key local regulators in the region </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• The Group’s external auditors</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Local governance bodies<br></span><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Other Responsibilities</span></strong><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Traded Risk Management </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Skills and Experience</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• 10+ Years of experience in Market Risk</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Masters degree in Finance or some quantitative subject (Science, Engineering)</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Substantial experience in Market Risk products, including demonstrated success in a similar role. In-depth knowledge and technical skills related to Financial Markets, Market Risk and Credit Risk.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Experience in managing a team.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Demonstrated track record in successful management and ability to manage risk in geographically dispersed and highly varied product base.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Analytical approach.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Technical background, with experience in developing codes in Python, VBA will be useful</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Very good writing and communication skills. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Takes ownership of assigned tasks and can manage mini-projects to final delivery</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Disciplined operator with commitment to high standards of personal and professional excellence coupled with strong inter-personal and communication skills</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Dedicated individual with creative thinking skills and the ability to work independently </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Possess strong leadership qualities </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Willing to learn and be able to overcome a steep learning curve in a relatively short period.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Results oriented, with demonstrable experience in driving complex change management initiatives.</span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Relevant relationship management experience - with corporate customers at the most senior levels and regulators.</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• Financial Risk Management certification from GARP will be preferred. </span><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">• CFA certification will be an added advantage. <br><br><strong>Role Specific Technical Competencies</strong><br>• Manage Conduct<br>• Manage Risk<br>• Manage People<br>• Market risk<br>• Credit derivatives<br>• ABS<br>• Equity <br></span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About Standard Chartered</b></H2> </div><div><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Together we:</p> <ul> <li><b>Do the right thing</b> and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do</li> <li><b>Never settle,</b> continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well</li> <li><b>Are better together,</b> we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>What we offer</b></H2> </div><div><p><b>In line with our Fair Pay Charter,</b> we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.</p> <ul> <li><b>Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,</b> with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.</li> <li><b>Time-off</b> 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.</li> <li><b>Flexible working</b> options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.</li> <li><b>Proactive wellbeing support</b> 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</li> <li><b>A continuous learning culture</b> to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.</li> <li><b>Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,</b> one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:14.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Recruitment Assessments</b></H2> </div><div><p>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.</p> <p>Visit our careers website <a href="https://www.sc.com/en/global-careers/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.sc.com/careers</a></p></div></div></div>

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