Associate Director, FM Middle Office Credit

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support and learning culture

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking an experienced Middle Office professional to support the Singapore Structured Credit Desk with end-to-end lifecycle management in Murex. You will engage across Vanilla Credit, Structured Credit, and TRS while liaising with Sales and Trading and offshore teams.

The role emphasizes risk-aware processing, audit readiness, and continuous improvement within a hybrid work model requiring 1-2 days in the office and flexibility across UK/US time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Banking, Finance or an equivalent qualification.
• Expert knowledge of Financial Markets, Credit Derivatives, and Financing products.
• Comprehensive understanding of front-to-back product operation processes.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities.
• Confident communicator, capable of adapting style to engage effectively with Front Office and offshore colleagues.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external teams.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment while maintaining meticulous attention to detail.
• Quick learner with innovative problem-solving capabilities.
• Proficient in Excel (including pivots and lookups; basic VBA skills are advantageous).
• Flexibility to work across UK and US time zones is essential.
• Willingness to work in a hybrid model, with 1-2 days per week in the office required.

Responsibilities

• Manage trade capture, coordination, and life-cycling for Financing products (loans), vanilla Credit, and Structured Credit products.
• Oversee query remediation, trade life-cycling, and daily processing tasks, ensuring timely escalation to minimize risk.
• Support new business enablement and solutions, collaborating to deliver strategic FM initiatives and enhance Operational readiness.
• Evaluate vendor costs and services throughout the lifecycle.
• Serve as Operations representative for Sales and Trading, acting as the primary contact for local business teams.
• Represent Operations during external, internal, and regulator scheduled audits:
• Ensure audit findings are addressed within established timelines.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation:
• Collaborate with Technology to deliver transformative solutions.
• Work with FM and FMO stakeholders to identify booking model enhancements and increase efficiency.
• Stay informed and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Adhere to the Ops Risk Framework standards for implementation and process management.
• Conduct periodic reviews of DOI, process notes, and daily checklists to ensure complete and accurate documentation of procedures.

Skills

Murex

Bloomberg

Loan IQ

ClearPar

Loan TRS

Structured Credit

Excel pivots

VBA

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Banking/Finance

Tools

Murex Processing

Loan IQ

ClearPar

Job description

Job Summary

Join a regional Middle Office team supporting the Singapore Structured Credit Desk. This role offers exposure to Loan Total Return Swaps (TRS), structured credit, fixed income, and derivative products, with end-to-end lifecycle management in Murex.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage trade capture, coordination, and life-cycling for Financing products (loans), vanilla Credit, and Structured Credit products.
• Oversee query remediation, trade life-cycling, and daily processing tasks, ensuring timely escalation to minimize risk.
• Support new business enablement and solutions, collaborating to deliver strategic FM initiatives and enhance Operational readiness.
• Evaluate vendor costs and services throughout the lifecycle.
• Serve as Operations representative for Sales and Trading, acting as the primary contact for local business teams.
• Represent Operations during external, internal, and regulator scheduled audits:
• Ensure audit findings are addressed within established timelines.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation:
• Collaborate with Technology to deliver transformative solutions.
• Work with FM and FMO stakeholders to identify booking model enhancements and increase efficiency.
• Stay informed and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Adhere to the Ops Risk Framework standards for implementation and process management.
• Conduct periodic reviews of DOI, process notes, and daily checklists to ensure complete and accurate documentation of procedures.

Skills And Experience

• Minimum of five years of relevant experience in Middle Office functions.
• Comprehensive understanding of Vanilla Credit products, including TRS and Loans.
• Expertise in Structured Credit products, specifically Loan TRS and TRCLI.
• Proficiency with systems such as Murex, Bloomberg, Loan IQ, and ClearPar.
• Experience in Loan Notice Processing.
• Skilled in Murex Processing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Banking, Finance, or an equivalent qualification.
• Expert knowledge of Financial Markets, Credit Derivatives, and Financing products.
• Comprehensive understanding of front-to-back product operation processes.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities.
• Confident communicator, capable of adapting style to engage effectively with Front Office and offshore colleagues.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external teams.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment while maintaining meticulous attention to detail.
• Quick learner with innovative problem-solving capabilities.
• Proficient in Excel (including pivots and lookups; basic VBA skills are advantageous).
• Flexibility to work across UK and US time zones is essential.
• Willingness to work in a hybrid model, with 1-2 days per week in the office 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 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.