Director Macro Structuring

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (SINGAPORE) LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (SINGAPORE) LIMITED seeks a senior Structuring professional to lead FX and Interest Rates (Macro) structuring across Corporates and FI client segments in Southeast Asia and Australia. You will identify client needs, build platforms, and provide hedging, risk management, financing and yield enhancement solutions.

You will partner with Trading, Sales and Product heads to grow the regional structuring business, expand capabilities, and ensure a seamless interface to clients.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a Structuring, Trading or Solutions Sales role
• Ability to grow regional macro structuring business with client focus
• Drive service excellence with robust product support and cross-asset guidance
• Lead deal origination and execution for complex transactions

Responsibilities

• Grow the macro structuring business regionally and ensure growth and stability
• Collaborate with product heads, sales heads and country heads to execute regional strategy
• Deliver structured products with client focus to become core bank to clients
• Support deal origination and pitch ideas to clients in the region
• Maintain strong partnerships between CIB, product, markets and sales teams
• Develop and implement new product capabilities to improve efficiency and expansion

Skills

Structuring

Trading

Solutions sales

Client relationships

Risk awareness

Job description

Job Summary

Responsible for the FX and Interest Rates (Macro) Structuring business across Corporates, and FI client segments in Southeast Asia and Australia. Actively identify client needs, build platforms, and provide structured solutions (across hedging, risk management, financing and yield enhancement) to SCB clients across FX and Interest Rate asset classes. Help originate new business and grow product capabilities by partnering with stakeholders in trading and sales. Develop a working knowledge of other asset classes - credit, equites, and commodities, to identify any potential leads and eventually bring in and work with relevant structuring leads for those asset classes.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Work with respective Product Heads, Sales Heads and in-country Heads of Financial Markets to help grow the structured macro business in various countries in the region in line with SCB's overall strategy


• Provide inputs for the global structuring team to drive service excellence via robust product support, bespoke solutions and strategic cross-asset guidance


• Ensure that the structured products suite is delivered regionally with demonstrable client focus in support of our objective to become core bank to our clients

Business

• Help build Macro Structuring business regionally and ensure the continuing growth and stability of the business


• Work with respective Markets Product teams and relevant Regional/Country Heads, identify the initiatives needed to grow the Structuring business on a short, medium and long-term basis


• Help to build good working partnerships between CIB teams, Product teams and Markets sales teams in the region to provide a seamless and coordinated interface to our clients in delivering our structured products and services


• Work in partnership with stakeholders to deliver new product capabilities to enhance efficiency and expansion of the business

Processes

• Manage business and risk process issues by interacting (where required) with representatives on various risk, governance and control committees


• Actively support deal origination in the region working in conjunction with Markets sales and coverage teams to generate ideas and pitch to clients


• Build effective working relationships with key internal stakeholders in CIB.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management / Risk Governance

• Enforce a culture of risk management and ensure that the teams comply with the risk management processes in place


• Provide impartial guidance of matters of product / client appropriateness and suitability.


• Discourage transactions with unmanageable risk profiles.


• Ensure that adequate and appropriate systems and controls are in place to comply with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those governing all Risk types, Compliance, Technology and Operations, Finance and Reputation


• Escalate any risk issues and concentrations. Where appropriate, carry out remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting.


• Protect the stability, long-term sustainability and reputation of the Bank

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 team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles including but not limited to Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance etc


• Effectively and collaboratively identify, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Sales, Trading, Coverage and Control functions

Our Ideal Candidate

• 6+ years of experience in a Structuring, Trading or Solutions Sales role


• Work with respective Product Heads, Sales Heads and in-country Head of Markets to grow the structured macro business in line with SCB's overall market strategy in the Corporate and FI clients space, ensuring the continuing growth and stability of the business


• Ensure that the markets structured products suite is delivered with demonstrable client focus in support of our objective to become core bank to our clients


• Drive service excellence via robust product support, bespoke solutions and strategic guidance


• Manage full deal flow (pitch, originate, execution, documentation and monitoring) for complex transactions to deliver financing, investment, and hedging solutions to clients.


• Work in partnership with multiple stakeholders to deliver new product capabilities to enhance efficiency and expansion