Candidates for Senior Manager

Job Description

* About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role Responsibilities Strategy
• Awareness and understanding of the Group s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
Business
• Knowledge of Custody operations, Securities Settlements, Corporate Actions, Financial Market Operations. Knowledge of Agent banking, Sub Custody operations and clearing will be an added advantage.
People and Talent
• Collaborative skills and should be able to work with staff across locations and grades.
Processes
• To monitor if all the cut-offs have been met with.
• To ensure that the DOIs are updated whenever procedures change.
• To have control over pending instructions and follow up for the same.
• To track / report and escalate errors and volumes on a daily basis.
• To plan effective resourcing of staff to handle high volumes during peak time.
• To be the source of reference in facilitating and promoting the understanding of corporate action team requirements.
• To ensure staff follow all control measures and implement any new control as required
• Compliance with the Departmental operating instruction manual and within the timeliness and accuracy standards specified.
• Proactively communicate with the department heads and or managers on operational risk issues. Escalate significant events as appropriate.
• Manage remote teams and influence stakeholders more senior than the roles position.
• Upholding the values of the group and company at all times.
• Continuous Improvement in productivity to the standards prescribed for the processes from time to time.
• Periodic MIS reporting for key stakeholders.
• To act as a SPOC for the team for management of audits.
• Identify potential areas of automation and oversee implementation.
• Compliance with all applicable rules / regulations and company and group policies.
• Carry out all back-up related activities and support other sites and processes as and when suggested by line manager.
• To manage risk and compliance in the processes and put in controls to maintain the same by maintaining low error rate.
• Comply with group money laundering prevention policy and procedures to the extent.
• Carry out tasks and projects as required by the line manager from time to time.
• Adhere group code of conduct as specified in the group policies.
Risk Management
• 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.
Governance
• In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased.
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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association
Key Stakeholders
• Business partners across countries, Central operations, GBS SSO Management team and Larger SSO team.
Our Ideal Candidate
• 8 to 10 years of relevant work experience in the following areas:
• Excellent oral / written communication skill/ good system skills.
• Worked in corporate action processing team and have experience in approving the transactions.
• Knowledge of various types of corporate action and swift message formatting
• Knowledge of allied products like Settlements, Fund services and reference data will be an added advantage.
• Should have handled people in the prev org, able to handle the team s 121, provide them with the performance feedback and rating.
• Should be strong people manager, who can monitor individual staff performance by tracking it against the job objectives provided and assign the process accordingly.
• Should be very good at Stake holder management
• Need to work closely with I.T team to resolve the system issues, should be able to articulate properly the same to senior staff in the I.T forum s
Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

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