Mgr, Corporate Action

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Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

Knowledge of Custody operations, Securities Settlements, Corporate Actions, Financial Market Operations. Knowledge of Agent banking, Sub Custody operations and clearing will be an added advantage.

SME in Corporate Actions, Delivering of Asset servicing solutions participating from requirement gathering, support new client CA requirements, support CA business functions.

Experience in projects and operations handling in corporate actions

Knowledge of Confluence, JIRA, ADO and any other defect tracking tools is advantage.

Good knowledge on International and Domestic Corporate actions with experience in Mandatory and Voluntary processing of events, Swift messages MT56X Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and able to handle variety of fast changing situations in terms of work clients' requirements (Exp 8-12 yrs)

Processes

Analysing and evaluating the current business processes a company has and identifying areas of improvement.

Researching and reviewing up-to-date business processes and new IT advancements to make systems more modern.

Presenting ideas and findings in meetings

Ability to drive and run transformation initiatives.

Training and coaching staff members

Creating initiatives depending on the business's requirements and needs

Developing projects and monitoring project performance

Collaborating with users and stakeholders

To escalate issues as they occur and coordinate communication to senior stakeholders.

Manage the performance and development of staff across the unit.

Co-ordinate various testing in respect of new application and processes relating to Corporate Action activities and check reports for confirmation and sign-off.

Handling Internal and External Auditors and clarifying all queries in a timely manner.

Managing KCSA related queries, timely updating of volumes in PS tool and encouraging active participation in CSR activities.

To support Migration of the new activities.

Complete all mandatory e-learning as and when it required.

People and Talent

Collaborative skills and should be able to work with staff across locations and grades.

Risk Management

To ensure all control / operating procedure and documentations are properly followed.

To ensure compliance to all established procedures, regulations and the Group Guidelines.

To keep track of changes (internal and external) affecting Clients and communicate such changes, along with impact analyses, on a pro-active basis, through newsflashes, market insights, operations guides and through other routine communication.

Governance

In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and / or activities are ceased.

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.

Key Stakeholders

Business partners across countries, Central operations, GBS SSO Management team and Larger SSO team.

Qualifications

5 to 9 years of relevant work experience in the following areas :

Excellent oral / written communication skill / good system skills.

Worked in corporate action processing team and have experience in approving the transactions.

Knowledge of various types of corporate action and swift message formatting

Knowledge of allied products like Settlements, Fund services and reference data will be an added advantage.

Should have handled people in the Prev org, able to give feedback to staffs.

Stake holder management

Need to work closely with I.T team to resolve the system issues, should be able to articulate properly the same to senior staff in the I.T forums.

Skills and Experience

Spot Opportunities

Communication

Collaborate

Deliver Sustainably

Achieve Results

Solve Problems

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.