Analyst, Financial Market Ops at Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria

Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria – We attract talented individuals. Not only can they give you the benefit of their experience, they also reveal a closer, more personal look at the wide range of global opportunities we offer. At the core of the Group’s people strategy is our focus on employee engagement. Engagement is a key driver of productivity and performance, which creates the foundation of our performance culture. We encourage and focus on the behaviours that bring out the very best from every employee, assessing their performance not just on results but on how those results were achieved. To further embed these behaviours we have a remuneration programme in place, carefully designed to incentivise our employees to live our values every day.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Analyst, Financial Market Ops

Ref No: 2200018599
Location: Lagos
Job: Operations
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent

Role Responsibilities 

• The role holder for providing support within Financial Markets Operations.

Strategy:

• To work closely with Manager Product Delivery FXMM and Associate, FM Ops – Product Delivery Fixed Income to ensure services delivery are of top quality.

Business:

• Ensure day to day operating compliance with all relevant local and global regulatory requirements and industry best practice

Processes:

• Serve as a maker in Depo-X for all Interbank secured Takings and Placements.
• Responsible for Country FMO document and work with respective desk officers to ensure their document are filed/stored daily for easy retrieval.
• Work with the various external Validation teams to ensure all Shape failed confirmation dispatch are promptly treated.
• Maintain the team’s register to ensure all incoming and outgoing document are well tracked.
• Responsible for obtaining the bank’s CRR statements weekly from the CBN and ensuring same is updated in TLM.
• Responsible for reconciling daily, weekly and monthly to confirm that all regulatory returns were dispatched timely as per procedure and any exception escalated.
• Collation and production of unit’s weekly update for OTI and Regional Input.

Risk Management:

• Escalate immediately seniors any situation identified not in conformity with BAU processes

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 FMO Nigeria 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

• GBS India
• FM front office
• WMPS
• Other Operations Departments.

Other Responsibilities:

• Serve as an alternate to the Operations Assistant in charge of Fixed Income processing.

Our Ideal Candidate 

• This role would require a good Bachelor’s Degree, 1+ years of relevant experience preferably in banking Operations
• Market Knowledge: – awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the firm operates. Must be conversant with various regulations that impact financial markets in the location, specifically Central Banks of Nigeria circulars relating to FXMM
• Risk Management and Control: – ability to identify risks and escalate it. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the bank, Financial Markets and the role the individual plays in managing them.
• Proficient in PC Skills Microsoft Excel and word
• Good communication and analytical skills.

Application Closing Date
24th August, 2022 (11:59:00 PM).

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online