Associate VP, Treasury Services

Standard Chartered; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Wellbeing support via Unmind

Learning and development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Standard Chartered Singapore is seeking an experienced professional to join Treasury Services as the central real-time nostro and liquidity management lead. You will work on intraday funding forecasts, MEPS+ monitoring, and proactive cash management to support Treasury Markets and other business units on a global basis.

You will partner with Treasury Markets to ensure timely funding decisions, manage intraday liquidity risk, and provide accurate MIS and reports while helping shape the Target

Qualifications

• 10 years' relevant experience in Banking operations
• 2 years’ experience of funding and liquidity management
• Prior people manager experience
• Good verbal & written business communication

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for real time nostro management processes including intraday liquidity monitoring and management of the firm’s central bank accounts in the MEPs+ system
• Calculate and provide funding forecasts to Treasury Markets on an intraday basis with adherence to cutoffs; analyse root causes of forecast swings
• Proactively manage payment scheduling systems to meet throughput and time-critical payments
• Monitor MEPS+ for regulatory compliance (MCB, GPS) and raise issues to Treasury Markets promptly
• Reconcile forecasted vs actual nostro settlements in near real time; investigate reconciliation exceptions and alerts
• Serve as a key partner to Treasury Markets for real time funding and liquidity decision-making
• Manage Nostro accounts across SCB Singapore including payment switches to optimize liquidity
• Provide Nostro MIS and control reports to support intraday liquidity risk measurement and management
• Collaborate with Treasury Markets to identify opportunities to enhance the operational support model
• Contribute inputs on process/system changes in Treasury Services and support rollout of intraday liquidity platform in Singapore
• Support global initiatives and contribute to the Treasury Services Target Operating Model within the network

Skills

Analytical skills

People management

Leadership

Problem solving

Prioritization and delegation

MS Office proficiency

Risk management in processes

Tools

MEPs+ system

Job description

• Seated alongside Treasury Markets on the trading floor, act as central point of contact for Treasury as well as other businesses and operations teams within Singapore and around the globe.
• Primary purpose is to support the forecasting and intraday liquidity management of the bank’s central bank a/c at the MAS

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible and accountable for real time nostro management processes that include:
• Intraday liquidity monitoring and management of the firm’s central bank accounts in the MEPs+ system.
• Calculation and provision of funding forecasts to Treasury Markets in line with agreed cutoffs on an intraday basis. Provision of root cause analysis on key funding drivers and forecast swings.
• Proactive management of payment scheduling systems to ensure the firm’s throughput requirements as well as time critical payments are met
• Monitoring MEPS+ to facilitate compliance with all regulatory requirements such as MCB and GPS, raising any issues to Treasury Markets on a timely basis
• Reconciliation of forecasted vs actual nostro settlements in near real time.
• Immediate investigation of reconciliation exceptions and alerts
• Being a key business partner and support mechanism to Treasury Markets to ensure effective real time funding and liquidity management decision-making.
• Proactive account management across all accounts held for SCB Singapore including payment switches across accounts to manage liquidity and funding
• Provision of Nostro MIS and control reports to support Treasury Markets in the measurement and management of intraday liquidity related risks.
• Engage with Treasury Markets to further identify opportunities to enhance the operational support model.
• Be responsible / accountable / consulted / informed in providing inputs regarding any process / system changes in the Treasury Services function / related upstream & downstream functions. This will include taking a central role in the development and roll out of the new intraday liquidity platform in Singapore
• Be responsible /accountable /consulted / informed re initiatives to bring in client centricity in the overall process universe of the unit, as applicable.
• Work within the global Treasury Services team to assist in the build out of the Treasury Services Target Operating Model within the group Network and Nostro Management organisation.
• Engage with and support global initiatives where required.

• Ensure 100% compliance at all times to the group’s risk management framework as applicable Governance
• Comply with all the group standards, policies, procedures and guidelines as applicable and values of the Bank at all times.
• Adhere to Group Code of Conduct at all times.
• Ensure compliance to the group’s risk management framework as applicable.
• Treasury, Financial Markets, Country Financial Markets Operations, Group Financial Markets Operations, Finance, Country CIO

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10 year's relevant experience in any Banking operations
• 2 years’ experience of funding and liquidity management
• Prior people manager experience
• Good verbal & written Business communication

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Excellent analytical capabilities
• Good people management skills.
• Strong leadership qualities and interpersonal skills
• Problem solving / Trouble shooting skills
• Prioritization and Delegation of activities
• Expert knowledge nostro / liquidity / cash management functions and processes.
• Proficient in PC skills, particularly MS Office
• Ability to identify, mitigate and eliminate risks in processes.

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.

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