Associate Director, CIB Markets DQM Model Risk Management

Job Summary 

CIB Markets has expertise combined with deep local market knowledge to deliver a variety of risk management, financing and investment solutions to our clients. The CIB Markets business offers capabilities across origination, structuring, sales, trading and research. Offering a full suite of fixed income, currencies, commodities, equities and capital markets solutions, CIB Markets has firmly established itself as a trusted partner with extensive on-the-ground knowledge and deep relationships.

Within CIB Markets, the Modelling & Analytics Group (‘MAG’) is accountable for design, development and delivery of real-time pricing models, risk models, and core infrastructure, enabling pricing, market data, intra-day risk reporting capability, and portfolio level analytics including reporting and capital optimization.

About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)  

For more than 170 years we’ve support clients with their transaction banking, financial markets, corporate finance and borrowing needs and provide solutions to nearly 20,000 clients in the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.

Key Responsibilities

The role of Associate Director, CIB Markets DQM Model Risk Management is a new role focusing primarily upon business risk management and governance tasks for CIB Markets-owned models, applications and services (referred to as Deterministic Quantitative Methods (‘DQMs’)), with these activities critical to supporting independent review of DQMs, governance approval, regulatory engagement, and business activities in accordance with PRA Supervisory Statement SS 01/23.

You’ll work on diverse markets projects and dedicated applications to support individual teams to process millions of trades and thousands of users. We’re looking for highly qualified individuals to deliver robust, high-performance software and quantitative analytics to support pricing and risk management requirements.

• Engage and work in collaboration with all relevant partners throughout the model risk cycle, with particular focus on identification, capture of expert knowledge of existing DQMs, and facilitation of independent review and other relevant model risk governance processes.
• Build a relationship with senior stakeholders and engage with them to assist in delivery of programmes and models to required standards.
• Use detailed understanding of CIB Markets DQMs and DQM networks to support activities which rely on this understanding, including accuracy and completeness of the CIB Markets DQM inventory.
• Support DQM lifecycle planning and facilitation of DQM delivery as well as broader programmes which include DQM delivery requirements.
• Business management/chief of staff support.
• Manage and coordinate business risk activities including annual risk control assessments.
• Applying the knowledge of the risk and control environment to support operational and model risk management activities

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate – 

• 2+ years of banking industry experience in a financial markets environment
• Experience with governance, oversight and controls in a banking environment, with model risk specific experience an advantage
• Knowledge of financial market products, market conventions and regulatory requirements is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management and project coordination skills

Role Technical Competencies 

• · Financial forecasting, modelling and analysis.
• · Risk management, financial risk, and credit risk and operational risk.
• · Balance sheet management.
• · Experienced in using and adapting to client behaviors and preferences.
• · Financial Services regulatory experience.
• · Data analysis and visualisation.
• · Industry knowledge

Key stakeholders*

•           MAG quant developers

•           Model implementation delivery (MAG Cortex, SABRE, FM IT, etc.)

•           Group Model Validation

•           Business colleagues

•            Regional and Asset Class Heads of Trading

•            Group Model Risk Policy & Governance

•            Valuation Control Methodology colleagues

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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