Director, Equity Specialist

Job Summary

• Part of the Capital Markets Products and Solutions team (CMPS)

• Manage the New York cash equity market shift.

• Achieve the Direct Access Clients (DACS) team budgets.

• Provide precise and best execution of cash equity trades to DAC clients.

• Provide professional advice with respect equity-related products and trade ideas to both internal and external clients under the DACS platform.

• Monitor DACS clients’ orders.

• Support in execution of equity structured products for the Private Bank after Asian Hours

• Deal with day-to-day administrative tasks in relation to trade input and data requests, etc.

• Perform night, holiday and weekend duties (on a rostered basis) to ensure uninterrupted services to both internal and external clients.

• Ad hoc project work.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the cash equity execution business.

Processes

• Responsible for accurate executing of trades

Risk Management

• Ability to identify risks and trade issues

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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.

• 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 (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• Private bank front office and Retail front office

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CMPS; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Our Ideal Candidate

• 7+ years of seasoned equity specialist to Manage the New York cash equity market shift with strong expertise in cash equities execution, preferably within a global markets or private banking environment.

• Proven ability to deliver best execution and manage high-touch client relationships to Direct Access Clients (DACS).

• Experience in structured products will be a plus as there will be support in execution of equity structured products for the Private Bank after Asian Hours

• Proven ability to deliver best execution and manage high-touch client relationships to sophisticated institutional or direct access clients.

• Demonstrates strong market awareness across US and European equities.

• Highly disciplined in risk, regulatory compliance, and operational accuracy, with the ability to operate in a fast-paced, execution-driven environment.

• A collaborative professional who can effectively partner with front office stakeholders while maintaining client-centricity and precision.

• RNF and CACS holder is required.

• CMFAS qualifications is required. Paper 1A or 1B, 5, 6, 6A, 8, 8A (RES1B OR RES12B and CM-EIP and CM-SIP or CM-CMP) as well as CACS and FMRP

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Analytical Thinking

• Market Knowledge

• Products and Processes

• Understand EQ as an asset class

• Understand the how-to in cash equities and structured product trading

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.

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