Senior Analyst

Job ID: 33225

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 14 Jul 2025

**Job Summary**
- Middle Office in Financial Markets at Standard Chartered was created in 2017 to provide dedicated Value-Added support to Front Office and enable business growth, better Risk Management, and resolution of queries for Sales and Trading. Middle Office acts as the conduit between many different stakeholders and are a client facing function.
Globally, Middle Office is split out across 13 Locations and covers Macro, Credit and Equity products. They are the main point of contact across Front Office and various Operations groups.
Our Mission Statement entails "Our mission is to become trusted partners to the FM Business by delivering operational efficiency and superior risk management practices, providing critical trade support to Sales and Trading and generate data-driven actionable insights to drive informed decision-making".**Strategy**
- Partner with business and COO to continuously provide value add service to drive efficiency and support business growth
- New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives.
- Constantly seek opportunities to improve global consistency, work closely with the Hubs (GBS) and other regions to close gaps and standardise processes.
- Communicate with clients to solve immediate day to day issues with transactions as well as understand their longer terms needs to shape business decisions in Operations
- Build strong relationship with Hub teams (Centre of Excellence & OTC Derivs Ops) to facilitate efficient communications and speedy resolutions of issues:

- Identify and close knowledge gaps within the Hubs through hands on training
- Daily KPI monitoring vs SLA

**Key Responsibilities**

**Process**
- Trade capture, life cycling, daily funding and PnL flash runs for Macro business.
- Manage query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation to minimise risk exposure.
- New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives:

- Drive Operational readiness.
- Collaborate with global Middle Office and Centre of Excellence to achieve seamless follow the sun model and constantly seek opportunities to achieve process
- consistency.
- Face of Operations to Macro Trading and Sales Desks locally - primary point of contact:

- Insulate FM from post execution processing / queries, represent Operations functions.
- Build team profile with the Front Office
- Stakeholder engagement, 2-way flow of information - “Trusted Advisor”
- Build strong relationship with Centre of Excellence and Trade Control to facilitate efficient communications and speedy resolutions of issues:

- Identify and close knowledge gaps within the Hubs through hands on training.
- Drive continuous improvement and innovate:

- Partner with Technology to deliver transformation.
- Work with FO to identify booking model improvements and drive efficiency.

**Risk Management**
- Operations representation for external/internal and regulator scheduled audits:

- Ensure Audit points are addressed within timelines.
- Achieve regulatory compliance and future proof the Middle Office model through a strong understanding of current rules and anticipation of upcoming regulations.
- Proactive approach to identify operational risks and remediation plans.
- Timely risk incident escalation, propose remediation plans to mitigate the risks and ensure action plans are complete.
- Inculcate a strong risk culture mindset in Middle Office.

**Governance**
- Adherence to Ops Risk Framework standards of implementation and process management:

- Continuous review of procedures and booking models.

**Skills & Experience**
- 3 plus years of relevant working experience ideally within the middle office function.
- In-depth knowledge of financial markets, derivatives (flow and structured), financing products and understanding of products front to back trade execution workflow and operation process.
- Possesses an analytical mindset along with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to confidently communicate, adapting one's style to both Front Office and offshore colleagues.
- Demonstrate strong teamwork with internal and external groups. Introduce and implement new controls and process changes required to support the transformation initiative.
- Thrive on working in fast paced environment while maintaining attention to detail.
- Good to have data analytics skills - PowerBI, Tablueu, Alteryx
- Fast learner with the ability to think out of the box and provide solutions.
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations. Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere. Forward looking with a holistic approach

**Qualification**
- Relevant degree qualification preferred

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Industry knowledge - regulatory and technology tools
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