Associate, Official Institutions Group

Job Summary

The Official Institution Groups sits within the Financial Markets Global Research team. The primary function of the team is to provide rating advisory to the Bank’s sovereign and multilateral clients – workstream referred to as Sovereign Ratings Advisory (SRA) for the purpose of this Job Description. The SRA function provides Governments and select Multilateral clients with strategic advice on how to best manage their credit ratings and position their sovereign credit narrative with the three main credit ratings agencies (CRAs): S&P, Moody’s and Fitch. They team acts as a conduit between the sovereign / multilateral clients and the CRAs by facilitating various interactions throughout the year.

Strategy/Business

• Deliver the SRA mandate across the following areas of engagement:
• Sovereign / Multilateral review meetings and engagements with Credit Rating Agencies (CRA)
• Facilitate dialogue with CRAs at key forums
• Deliver capacity building and rating strategy/ roadmap to clients (as applicable)
• Helping clients devise communication strategy around credit positioning for CRAs and Investors
• Lead interactions with senior government officials and staff at Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) on all matters relating to SRA
• Ensure highest standard of client management and advisory
• Assist and advise clients in obtaining / maintaining ratings from international rating agencies including advising on rating related matters, such as methodologies and processes
• Bring strategic thought and vision as to how the sovereign credit landscape regionally/globally is evolving and where areas of opportunities and challenges lie for the Bank’s sovereign and multilateral clients
• Build and maintain working relationship with Senior Leaders in Rating Agencies, other key official sector stakeholders
• Maintain team’s interaction and visibility with key senior analysts, to deepen understanding on their line of thoughts
• Demonstrate Familiarity with rating agency methodologies. Prepare thematic or industry notes for internal senior management and potentially external clients.
• Provide ratings expertise in strategic banking/ advisory deals with multilateral institution clients
• Provide the bank with global sovereign debt insight and expertise
• Drive efforts to ensure the Bank is up to speed on the latest efforts relating to sovereign debt distress and the related impacts
• Provide technical knowledge around sovereign restructuring and related impacts
• Represent the Bank in various fora such as GSDR, IIF, Paris Club
  
  

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Support all aspects of work of the official institutions group within the research function
• A specific focus on Sovereign Ratings Advisory business and ensuring delivery of highest quality work within timelines.
• Facilitate Sovereign / Multilateral rating review meetings and engagements with Credit Rating Agencies (CRA)
• Deliver capacity building and rating strategy/ roadmap to sovereign and multilateral clients (as applicable)
• Helping clients devise communication strategy around credit positioning for CRAs and Investors
• Support interactions with government officials on all matters relating to the Sovereign Ratings Advisory business
  

Risk Management

• Understand and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the Groups policies, procedures and the Group Code of Conduct
• Completion of all mandatory risk and compliance training including e-learning
  
  

Skills And Experience

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.
• Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment, SRA Best Practices Paper
  
  

Key stakeholders

• Build a broad and effective network within and outside the bank
• Senior leaders and key decision makers at Governments, MDBs, and Official Sector institutions as applicable
• CCIB, Financial Markets and FI coverage partners as applicable
• Senior Stakeholders at Rating Agencies
• Key Competitors
• FM teams on Official Institutions related conversation
• GCM Origination teams on MDB ratings related matters
• Other relevant business stakeholders
  
  

Other Responsibilities

• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Business or Functional policies and procedures
• Provide guidance to fellow colleagues across Banking on SRA related matters
  
  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor degree with 0-2 years’ experience in banking and/or research
• Risk & AML certified as stipulated by Bank policy
• An interest in geopolitics, macro-economics and how global events shape Sovereign credit globally will be an advantage
• An interest in sovereign credit rating methodologies will be an advantage.
• Curiosity or experience in analysing Sovereign Balance Sheets and how external ratings are established and evaluated
  
  

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Risk Management and Internal Controls
• Manage People
• Risk Management - Operational
• Business - Market Knowledge
• Business - Products and Processes
• Ratings Advisory
  
  

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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