Associate Director, Client Management

JOB SUMMARY

• We are hiring a Client Manager to support the Financial Institutions portfolio within our Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
• The Client Manager is the pivotal relationship in the Client Delivery team responsible for delivering exceptional
• client account management. The Client Manager is responsible for proactively managing the client account on all day to day maintenance activities to ensure the highest level of client service and relationship health.

About our Client Management Team

If you're motivated by providing outstanding service to clients, then our Client Management team could be the perfect fit for you. We ensure seamless delivery for all our clients across different processes and services. You'll learn about the whole client lifecycle and be given the opportunity to build on your specific skills and experiences to drive your career in a direction that suits you. At the same time you'll have the autonomy you need to drive change, ensuring we are continuously innovating to develop the banking that everyone needs to thrive in the future.

About our Technology & Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you're protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We're driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the highest level of client service and risk mitigation through proactive client account management support with client on-boarding, credit monitoring and flow maintenance
• Actively engage and collaborate with clients, RMs and Product Partners to understand and respond to any issues/concerns relating to the ongoing account maintenance including highlighting any unusual utilization patterns to coverage teams
• Ensure general portfolio hygiene of client data from a quality control perspective i.e. correct client tagging, limit information, segment classification etc..
• Review and follow up on Unsettled (FX) Past Due Trades reports & Failed trades reports with Operations
• Support Loan Drawdown, Cash Management, Trade Offerings & Audit Confirmations
• Seek transactional approvals as necessary (i.e. trade, cash) and release trade offerings on time to ensure faster TAT on trade transactions.
• Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group's arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas

Our Ideal Candidate

Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of client delivery processes and adherence to standards and controls
• Client focused mindset with demonstrated success in building strong client relationships and/or engaging and servicing clients effectively
• Ability to meet the client's account maintenance needs and effectively support the GAM/FAM with all process, reporting and documentation management requirements including CDD and Credit support
• Sound analytical skills to identify emerging risks, analyse transactional reports and identify issues

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in corporate banking or other relevant environment
• Risk & AML certified as stipulated by Bank policy for Client Manager role
• Strong product knowledge including cross-product operational knowledge and/or experience
• Knowledge of coverage policies core to the responsibilities of this role i.e. CDD, Credit and Bank legal documentation frameworks
• Strong understanding of Credit & AML Risk

Role Specific Technical Competencies (As per JD)

• Manage Conduct
• Risk Management and Internal Controls (SIF)
• Business - Strategy and Business Model (SIF)
• Problem Management Process

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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