Analyst, Middle Office

Job Description

Job Summary

Join our dynamic Middle Office team in Financial Markets (FM), where you'll play a pivotal role in providing value-added support to Sales and Trading teams, driving operational efficiency, and ensuring effective risk management. As the conduit between Front Office and Operations, you’ll work across Macro, Credit, and Equity products, interacting with global stakeholders and clients to solve complex challenges and shape strategic decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Partnering: Collaborate with Front Office, COO, and global teams to drive efficiency, enable new business, and deliver strategic FM initiatives.
• Process Management: Oversee trade capture, life-cycling, PnL flash runs, and query resolutions to mitigate risks and ensure operational readiness.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the local point of contact for Macro Trading and Sales Desks, building strong relationships across regions and functions.
• Continuous Improvement: Innovate processes, partner with Technology for transformation projects, and drive consistency across global operations.
• Risk Management: Ensure regulatory compliance, address audit findings, and foster a strong risk-aware culture within the Middle Office team.
  
  

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Expertise in financial markets, derivatives, and end-to-end trade execution workflows.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across functions and geographies.
• Proficiency in data analytics tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Alteryx.
• Resilient, adaptable, and forward-thinking, with a focus on continuous learning and innovation.
  
  

Qualifications

• University degree preferred.
• Vast years of experience in financial markets, with a focus on Middle Office functions.
• Knowledge of industry regulations, technology tools (Murex, Bloomberg, Markitwire), and FM products (FX, Rates, Credit, Commodities).
• Proven leadership and team management experience.
  
  

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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Standard Chartered Bank