Job Vacancies at Standard Chartered

Role Responsibilities 

• The primary responsibility is the management of the Bank’s liquidity profile, ensuring that it remains within stipulated risk tolerances.
• The job is to raise and deploy liquidity to ensure that the bank is in a position to meet all its obligations at all times (intra-day and inter-day); to meet all regulatory requirements; to diversify the funding base in a prudent manner; to pre-empt times of surplus and tight liquidity and to produce a curve reflective of the banks marginal cost of liquidity.]

Strategy
Be responsible for day-to-day management of the balance sheet

• Provide balance sheet and market insights to HoTM and/or ALCO to ensure prudent and accurate directions from ALCO
• Liaise with other business units to obtain the best possible view of asset pipelines and forecast liability generation
• Communicate the funding requirements / excess liquidity position with the Central liquidity team. Convey capacity on limits
• Ensure adherence to all regulatory requirements and all internal liquidity metrics
• Determine the level of marketable security holdings to facilitate the Bank making payments within the local RTGS system (in relevant countries)
• Raise a flag to senior management on any concerns over the Bank’s capacity to easily meet projected funding requirements

Manage the Liquidity whilst Maintaining Regulatory; stress and Prudent Liquidity Requirements

• Access the money markets as required; either with other banks directly or through interdealer broker; raising and placing liquidity to ensure liquidity limits are adhered to whilst maximising economic value to the Bank
• Being proactive in raising liquidity when it is cheap, deploying it when it is expensive
• Proactively establish and maintain good relationships with direct wholesale customers, including central banks
• Swap funding between currencies to meet liquidity requirements and to minimise funding costs
• Move funding between TM desks as required
• Participate in local central bank operations and facilities, as required
• Provide oversight to TM Support in ensuring adequate intra-day liquidity to facilitate all payments / to meet pay-in obligations with CLS (in relevant centres)
• Liaise with the Repo desk in order to manage a stock of eligible collateral for use within the LAB or act as intraday collateral for RTGS
• Preposition eligible securities at the local central bank to be used as backstop liquidity (where available)
• Decide on the requirement to purchase securities to meet the statutory, stress, payments or prudent requirements
• Decide the need to raise medium term funding

Business:

• Operate within TM’s liquidity and credit limits
• Ensure LM function activities are within MCO, WBG, Stress, MTF and Swapped Funds Guidelines as prescribed by GMR limits
• Flag any potential liquidity limit issues to GMR in advance
• Request for temporary limits to GMR and Credit, where appropriate
• Submit annual limit application to GMR and Credit
• Maintain desired ratios as directed by the Global Head of Liquidity
• Produce daily yield curves for the Bank’s marginal cost of funding in local and major foreign currencies, fixed and floating, for funds transfer from or to the rest of the Bank
• Ensure this curve encourages an overall balance of liquidity yet does not unduly disadvantage any business unit
• Manage the relationship with the local key stakeholders.
• Custody and management of TM’s RWA limit, ensuring adherence to the target set over the semi-annual reporting periods. Responsible for forecasting RWA usage and input into the setting of the limit, after obtaining the relevant balance sheet information from all parties
• Understand and be able to act on the Country Liquidity Contingency Plan
• Ensure a full understanding of what is expected of TM if the plan is activated
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with of the sources of standby and emergency liquidity, including central banks
• Actively monitor for and immediately alert senior management on any evidence that the bank could be about to encounter funding stress
• In case this plan is ever activated, take ownership to raise desired liquidity

Processes:

• Money Laundering Prevention
• Ensure money laundering prevention requirements and procedures are communicated to unit staff in Financial Markets
• Ensure the procedure of suspicious transactions monitoring within Global Markets is followed
• Report any issues related to money laundering prevention arising within the unit to Business MLPO and unit head
• Vet and assist in the investigation of suspicious transaction reports originating from unit staff
• Communicate with Relationship Manager (RM) on money laundering requirements and suspicious transactions.

People and Talent:
Reference all responsibilities related to people and talent matters e.g.

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Employ, engage and retain high quality people.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Conduct:

• Provide leadership in Financial Markets Nigeria and West Africa to comply with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and practices as defined by internal and external requirements. Understand and ensure compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations and guidelines including those governing securities activities, company law, anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions; the Group’s policies and procedures; and the Group Code of Conduct. Take personal responsibility for understanding the risk and compliance requirements of the role. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters.
• Embed the Group’s Values and Group Code of Conduct to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics. Comply with relevant policies, processes and regulations, as part of the culture. Lead by example by displaying exemplary conduct behaviours and take personal responsibility for:
• The conduct of individuals in Financial Markets Nigeria and West Africa, ensuring behaviours set out in the Group Code of Conduct are followed.
• Financial Markets Nigeria and West Africa achieving the outcomes set out in the Conduct Principals and Pillars.
• Both direct and indirect/dotted line managers are individually accountable to proactively communicate, collaborate and agree on the conduct ratings of employees.

Risk Management:

• Provide oversight to TM Support in ensuring that liquidity risk from the commercial balance sheet is being transferred to TM as per policy Ensure that funding costs are accurately reflected, including the impact of stress; and statutory holdings.

Governance:

• Ensure that all compliance and local regulatory requirements are met and reported as appropriate

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
Internal:

• Global Head of Liquidity and his managers
• TM Investment Management
• Sales Desks within FM
• Relationship managers
• ALCO
• Group Treasury
• GMR
• TCRM
• DCM
• SCB countries in region and the major hub TM centres

External:

• Local Banks
• Local central bank, departments involved in Money Market Operations
• Money Brokers
• Direct Wholesale customers

Other Responsibilities:

• ALCO balance sheet strategy
• Prudent Liquidity Policy including benchmarking against other banks
• The degree to which liquidity planning has ensured continued capacity for new deals and business growth.

Requirements

• Possess relevant qualifications.

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Role Responsibilities
The Executive Assistant, is responsible for:

• Assisting the ED, to provide administrative, secretarial support and to primarily run the office and his direct report request.Day to day management of his office
• Assisting the Country/Cluster Managers in providing secretatrial duties.
• Highlighting risk and concerns to the ED, so that it can be highlighted and addressed.
• Support to CMs; contribute to ensuring timely, effective, efficient and quality service delivery of the Department
• Provide support to Chief Financial Officer in the co-ordination of the departmental activities by ensuring that the CFO (and other Finance Managers) meet their objectives and serve internal and external customers in an efficient and timely manner.  This includes ensuring, on a day-to-day basis that matters that require follow up are acted on by the CFO (and other Finance Managers).
• Handle all correspondence and communication including mail, faxes, letters, and memorandums and responding to routine mail, handling telephone and customer enquiries related to the CFO (and other Finance Managers).
• To receive and manage the CFO’s mail and distribute as appropriate.
• Word-processing of all correspondence for the CFO (and other Finance Managers). 
• To provide the appropriate response to customer enquiries and/or re-direct some of the enquiries to relevant officers of the department/ division.
• To respond to client/customer/ supplier enquiries in a professional manner so as to project and maintain the Bank’s image at all times.
• Managing the facilities/office equipments, and any other related tasks
• Maintenance of cost centre control of expenses.
• Organization of logistics for travels, meetings, trainings/ workshops and events.
• Receive and coordinate logistics for all Group/ Regional/ Cluster guests
• Maintaining internal compliance regulations for the team.
• Handle day to day management of the team requests in the office.

Secretarial functions:

• Maintaining an organized and logical filing system and client base
• Management of the CFO’s diary.
• Maintain confidentiality of all correspondence and communication.
• Filing of team member’s expenses, claims, office purchase receipts etc.
• Ensure that all team members comply with Group compliance processes such as clear desk policy, information protection (locking systems while away from seats)
• Process OTTs, BTAs, Chequebooks, Cards etc for the ED/CFO
• Ensure effective and efficient communication across the Cluster.
• Ensure Finance policies are followed across West Africa and escalate where necessary to the ED/CFO on any issues of concern.
• Constant monitoring of Gaps and Potential risk issues so as to ensure that they are closed / mitigated within reasonable timeframe
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Departmental Administration:

• Manage monthly departmental meeting process including timely producing of agenda, minutes etc. Track and follow-up on actions points until closure.
• Handle OL admin for Finance including record keeping on training ; follow-up on staff to complete e-Learning modules
• Co-ordinate Finance departments “My Voice” Impact Planning, monitoring and team building activities
• Co-ordinate Finance CSR activities
• Leave management and tracking.
• Monitoring stationery stocks and ordering new supplies
• Maintain efficient and effective computerised and manual filing and retrieval system.  Manage the Finance and Administration’s archival and retrieval processes.
•  Arrange all travel, hotel reservation and visa arrangements for the CFO and Finance & Admin staff, as well as any visitors who may be coming specifically to do business with Finance.
• Co-ordinate meetings and conference calls for the CFO (and other Finance Managers), which includes correspondence to relevant parties, booking meeting rooms etc; ensuring that all relevant meeting information and materials are distributed in good time.
• Assist with the arrangements of any functions i.e. client or staff related for the CFO (and other Finance Managers) e.g. conferences, group visits etc.
• Assist in general Finance Operational Risk Management and Assurance process, including completion and submission of assigned Country Finance KRIs, KCIs and CSTs.
• Put together Minutes of Meetings
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Support Other Teams within Finance Function:

• Provide support to other teams within Country Finance Function.
• Coordinate and consolidate all key CFO/ Finance presentations (Exco, Board, ALCO etc) within stipulated time frame; ensuring they are of high quality.
• Support the team to compile all documents required by internal/ external auditors and examiners before and during audit
• Raise e-proc requests for Finance, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with the Bank's policy.
• Serve as back-up to Account Payable Manager, when necessary
• Execution of other tasks that may be assigned by Head, Balance Sheet and Performance Management. Some of the tasks include:
• Circulation of the daily FTP rates, Loan- to-Deposit Ratio, daily deposit tracker, Risk Indicator Dashboard
• Update daily balance sheet and daily back testing, deposit tracker,
• Monthly journals and monthly cost reports for the GSFs in Nigeria
• Other ad-hoc tasks directed by the Balance sheet and Performance manager.

Risk Management:

• Highlighting risk and concerns to the ED, so that it can be highlighted in appropriate risk forums.
• Ensure the smooth running of the prjojects the ED is leading .
• Ensure CH’s complete and submit all report and request sent to them for feedback.

Governance:

• Ensure adherence to all Processes, Policies and Procedures.

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:

• Key stakeholder interactions are ED, Country CFOs, Financial Controllers.

Our Ideal Candidate 

• Minimum of 4 years corporate experience
• First Degree (2.2 equivalent) in any discipline from a recognised institution
• Professional accounting qualification (ICAN/ACCA, etc) desirable – Fully or partial.
• Licences and Certifications/accreditations added advantage.
• Proficiency in English language required.