Assistant Director, CMPS Middle Office

Job ID: 40568

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 3 Oct 2025

Job Summary

• This headcount is part of the CMPS (Capital Markets Products and Sales) Team focusing on supporting CMPS dealing desks across FX, FI and structured products on all deal/order related activities, including trade reconciliation, lifecycle and other administrative activities.

• The incumbent is responsible for providing post trade reconciliation, lifecycle support, reporting and data maintenance.

• Develop and maintain relationships with internal clients, CMPS staff (local and global product specialists, Dept. Head/s), business partners (regional and global LoB Management, RMs, Investment Advisors) and support staff (GCO, Ops, Compliance, Credit, Risk Management)

• Assume responsibility for local MIS requirements

• In order to maintain the highest standard for execution, ensure that all products have the requisite Governance framework; be aware of the various processes as well as adhering to SCB Policies.

• Work on developing regional/country dealing procedures.

• Ensuring compliance with all internal and regulatory requirements.

• Maintaining good relationship and to work closely with internal and external stakeholders including the front, middle and back offices.

• Providing support to ad hoc projects in relation to specific aspects of desk activities, including system testings.

Strategy

• The incumbent has the responsibility to liaise with multiple stakeholders with focus on providing dealing support functions whilst adhering to compliance and market risk controls pertaining to these related activities.

• A high standard of accuracy is required.

Processes

• Ensure awareness of trade booking processes and deliver quality post trade service.
• Ability to identify and suggest ways of enhancements to existing processes.

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values

Governance

• Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Responsible for delivering 'effective governance'; capability to challenge fellow executives effectively; and willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.

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

• CMPS dealing desks
• Risk, Compliance, Operational Risk, Legal, COO
• Employees, Shareholders and Clients
• Function Heads and dedicated functional partners
• External regulatory bodies and commercial/third-party entities

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in ; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).

Skills and Experience

• Analytical Thinking
• Products and Processes
• Information Capture

Our Ideal Candidate

• 3 plus years of dealing support experience.
• Good knowledge on Financial market products
• Communications and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial Spirit and willingness to keep broadening capabilities
• A degree in finance or a technical field is preferred
• Basic analytical and technical skills that can be practically applied to day-to-day operations.
• Knowledge in Excel. VBA knowledge is a plus
• Ability to work with a high level of attention to details.
• Ability to work under a fast-paced environment.
• Good in internal and external stakeholders' management
• Strong work ethic with high level of self-motivation and initiative.

Role Specific Technical Competencies Short Description

• Financial market products
• Dealing support
• VBA and Excel.
• Middle Office

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.

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