Executive Assistant at Standard Chartered Bank

Specific Responsibilities

• Organising the Head of Transaction Banking and Transaction Banking Team’s Schedules:
  • Co-ordinate Head of Transaction Banking’s schedules and Transaction Banking team departmental functions: Meetings, trainings, conferences, webinars and group visits
  • Planning and scheduling meetings and managing appointments
  • Co-ordinating travel engagements and guest arrangements
  • Maintenance of various administrative elements: Org Charts, Trackers, etc
• Business Performance:
  • Participate in articulating Transaction Banking’s business strategy
  • Analysis of Revenues and Returns for Products
  • Preparation of performance presentations for various stakeholders
  • Tracking performance to budget and identifying risks and opportunities to delivering the targeted business performance
  • Analyse and report on the Transaction Banking deal pipeline
  • Co-ordinate accurate forecast submissions within appropriate timelines
  • Ensure accurate and timely data input quality on all group reporting systems i.e Workbench, Peoplesoft, SQL, Tableau etc
• Business Administration:
  • Organise purchase and maintenance of office supplies and oversee expenses for the Transaction Banking team
  • Prepare advances, reconciliations, and claims for the Transaction Banking team
  • Co-ordinate staff training programmes, initiatives and leave plans
  • Engage relevant stakeholders in reconciling the TB costs in alignment with the Cost agenda
  • Liaising with TB West Africa Team and stakeholders – CCIB, Segment and Product heads, Tech & Ops, BORMs/UORMs in relation to the TB Agenda
  • Tracking, registering, and maintaining database of regulatory directives/circulars
• Risk Report: Assist with the coordination and reporting of the Transaction Banking Cluster Forum.
• Any other activity as required by the Group or Region to be delivered to support the Transaction Banking Head’s targets and the Transaction Banking teams’ deliverables from time to time.

Risk Management:

• The ability to interpret the Group’s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures

Governance:

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

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.
• Work with the Transaction Banking team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles, Fair outcomes for clients, Effective Operation of Financial Markets, Financial Crime prevention and The Right Environment  
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Anti-money Laundering:

• Ensure compliance with all client due diligence (CDD), Anti-money Laundering (AML) and sanctions policies and procedures

Key Stakeholders:

• Africa and Middle East Transaction Banking Team (Segment/Business/Product/Sales Heads, Transaction Banking Sales, Product, Implementation, Business Risk, Corporate Service Manager etc)
• West Africa Business Partners (Finance, HR, etc)
• West Africa CCIB Client coverage teams

Other Responsibilities:

• Embeds “Here for good” and Group’s brand and values,
• Performs other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
• Act as a role model, behaving with integrity and demonstrating exemplary conduct
• Ensure effective communication of activity expectation and provide quality feedback as required/appropriate
• Ensure the team is updated on performance and business expectations
• Responsible to the sales managers for all around activity/sales performance/compliance of the area team
• An excellent working knowledge of a wide range of financial products available in the market and competitor product placing and strategies

Application Closing Date
26th Feburary, 2022.