Associate Markets Sales

Job Summary

Define key responsibilities to reflect the duties and responsibilities of this role.

• Distribute Flow / Derivative products of multiple asset classes (FX, Rates, Credit, Commodities, Money Market, etc) to Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) clients.
• Develop and maintain existing clients for the purpose of maximising client experience, revenues and enhancing the reputation of Standard Chartered in the market.

Business

• Ensure all deals are done within counterparty limits.
• Ensure all deals are done are appropriate and suitable to clients (under Enterprise Appropriate Framework (EAF)).
• Develop and maintain existing clients.
• Distribute flow / derivative products of multiple asset classes.
• See Employee portal for more details.

Processes

• The job is responsible under Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) / Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) as 1st line – MARKETS Sales.

Risk Management

• Be responsible for controlling and mitigating risks to the firm in the course of MARKETS Sales business. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the firm and the role the individual plays in managing them, especially but not limited to those relevant to Sales, is required.
• Include all relevant responsibilities Under Risk Management Framework for first line / execution.

Governance

• Help to ensure effective governance, oversight, and controls in the Sales business
• Have awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the firm 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.
• Lead the [Japan Sales team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• [Japan local regulator e.g. Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA), Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) prescribed responsibilities and Rationale for allocation].

Key stakeholders

Internal

• Work with Traders and Structuring to provide good prices and ideas to our clients
• Work with Risk / Control functions to ensure all risks associated with the conduct of business are reasonable and mitigated
• Work with Coverage and other Flow / Structured Sales closely

External

• Develop and maintain new / existing Client business
• Work under strict compliance with rules by Regulators

Qualifications

• Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: University graduate
• Licences and Certifications/accreditations: Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) License Type 1
• Professional Memberships: n/a
• Bank training: On the job training
• Languages: English, Japanese

Skills and Competencies

• Markets - economic analysis & macroeconomics
• Markets – technical analysis
• Markets – fixed income analysis
• Markets – forwards and futures – hedging
• Markets - products - foreign exchange
• Markets - products - interest rates options - caps & floors
• Markets - products - interest rate & currency swaps
• Markets - products - money markets
• Markets – products – credit derivatives
• Markets – products – commodities

About Standard Chartered

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.

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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 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.
• 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.