Senior Analyst, Middle Office

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Join us as a subject matter expert in Commodities Products, encompassing a wide range of commodities from Oil to Carbon. You'll leverage your expertise in derivatives, trade life cycles, and physically traded commodities to drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Key responsibilities include representing us in IBA Auctions, managing day-to-day processing, and driving efficiency improvements in collaboration with Technology and FM teams. As the primary liaison between Operations and Sales/Trading Desks, you'll ensure smooth communication and act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders.

If you're ready to shape the future of Commodities Operations and drive global consistency, apply now!

Job Summary:

• Subject matter expert in Commodities Products: Oil, Agricultural Products, Base Metals, Precious Metals, Gas & Power, Carbon
• Good working knowledge of Derivative products, Options, ETD & OTC trade life cycle, and Physically traded Commodities
• Act as a Representative in IBA Auctions, ensuring effective participation and adherence to market standards
• Own query remediation, trade life-cycling, and day-to-day processing to minimize risk
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation, partnering with Technology and FM teams
• Serve as the primary point of contact between Operations and Sales/Trading Desks
• Build strong relationships with Hub teams to facilitate efficient communications and issue resolution
• Monitor daily KPIs against SLAs

Responsibilities:

• Own query remediation, trade life cycling and day to day processing to minimize risk
• Serve as a primary point of contact between Operations and Sales/Trading and FM teams
• Act as a Representative in IBA Auctions, ensuring effective participation and adherence to market standards
• Own query remediation, trade life-cycling, and day-to-day processing to minimize risk

Our Ideal Candidate

• Good working knowledge of Derivative products and Financial Markets in particular Commodity Products
• Excellent Excel skills and VBA knowledge preferred
• Proactive and agile mindset to help drive efficiencies
• Good communication and interpersonal skills to manage relationships with Sales and Trading

About 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 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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