Associate Business Manager, FM Europe

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank is seeking a Business Manager for their Markets UK team. You will play a crucial role in driving efficiency and ensuring compliance within a fast-paced environment. This position involves strategic planning, risk management, and collaboration between global and local teams, providing an excellent opportunity for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Annual leave and parental leave

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support programs

Continuous learning culture

Inclusive organization embracing diversity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Postgraduate degree required.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint needed.
• Fluency in English mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Act as connector between global and local Markets teams.
• Support the Markets Country Head in running Business Risk Forums.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks.

Skills

Knowledge of Financial Markets products

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Presentation skills

Ability to navigate complex regulatory environments

Education

Bachelor’s or Postgraduate degree

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Job description

Job Summary

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for financial markets and business management? We're looking for a Business Manager, Markets UK to support our Markets Business Heads in executing strategy, implementing initiatives, and ensuring risk & governance compliance.
This role is a unique opportunity to drive business efficiency, manage regulatory adherence, and support front-office operations within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the connector between global and local Markets teams, sharing best practices.
• Support the Markets Country Head in running Business Risk Forums (BRFs).
• Identify and mitigate operational risks, ensuring adherence to local regulations.
• Oversee business continuity planning, capacity management, and licensing.
• Drive a prudent cost culture, managing budgeting and forecasting.
• Continuously streamline and optimize processes to enhance efficiency.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Knowledge of Financial Markets products.
• Analytical, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Ability to navigate complex regulatory environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Postgraduate degree
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Fluent English required.

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.