Associate

Job ID: 40335

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 24 Sept 2025

JOB SUMMARY

The Credit and Portfolio Management (CPM) team focuses on reinforcing origination discipline, reducing profit and loss volatility and optimising capital and liquidity resources to support the growth of the Corporate and Investing Banking (CIB) and Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business

• Drive efficient and effective asset and liquidity distribution initiatives including the development of cost and balance sheet liquidity distribution options.
• Work with the deal team(s) for execution of transactions (e.g. structured liquidity facilities)
• Participate in the Distribution Forum to co-ordinate distribution strategy consistently across the Bank.
• Actively explore and advance on new types and avenues of distribution to diversify liquidity sources which includes looking into ways to expand the distribution investor base.
• Provide transparency on the cost, effectiveness, and execution risk of a transaction to enable decision-making which includes maintaining discipline on assessing comparable transactions.

Process

• Manage liquidity distribution initiatives (covered bonds, term liquidity, contingent liquidity, etc) including replenishments, run test trades, reporting and transaction management.
• Manage central bank discount windows initiatives for CIB loans including coordination with CPM-FRM, CPM Assets and Treasury to optimise eligible loans.
• Work closely with Technology and Legal to ensure robustness of the Legal Workflow tool.
• Ensure robust governance, reporting and booking of transactions to ensure benefits are taken to the extent committed.
• Support senior members of CPM Distribution in other distribution activities when needed.

People & Talent

• Work with stakeholders within CPM, Treasury, Risk and the Business to determine and execute appropriate distribution initiatives to ensure liquidity resilience.

Risk Management

• Ensure tight adherence to compliance standards in execution of transactions, distribution of assets and liquidity distribution activities.
• Monitor changes in the regulatory landscape and market structure related to distribution activities, including responding to regulatory questions and updates.

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.
• Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Financial Markets Structuring, Sales & Trading
• Capital Markets Solutions
• Client Coverage
• Balance Sheet Securitisation Group (BSSG)
• Credit Risk & Treasury Risk
• Tax
• Legal
• Compliance
• Treasury
• Finance
• Integrated Middle Office
• Operations
• Technology

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Credit and Portfolio Management.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Education: Graduate qualifications (or conversions), Well recognised university degree. Master's in finance will be advantageous.
• 2 plus years of working experience in the finance industry is preferred.
• Analytical mind with problem-solving skills.
• Highly motivated, able to work independently and multi-task effectively as part of a team.
• Strong communications. Able to write well and articulate ideas to management.
• Strong understanding of banking products is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, and able to liaise and coordinate with various stakeholders on various programs.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Knowledge of Product Line under CIB Management
• Balance Sheet Management
• Process Management
• Manage Projects
• Industry Knowledge under CIB Management
• Credit Risk

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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