Assistant Manager

Strategy
•    Exhibit qualities which demonstrate the group’s strategy. 
•    To treat Customer’s with Human touch and understand the importance at every business stage.
•    To support strategic intent, on the growth of business, cross functional advantage and work on cost efficiency. 

Business

•    To establish and maintain a close working relationship with the customers to ensure prompt and effective responses to the various business requirements, queries and requests from them.
•    To be aware of the business targets and ensure compliance.
•    To own the business transactions of Clients and ensure completion at all levels/stages on a sustained basis.

Processes

•    To ensure that all documents are accurately checked, processed and released in compliance with statutory regulatory and internal operational instructions.
•    Ensuring deals are being released as per the Departmental Operating Instructions manual, customer’s instructions and within the timeliness and accuracy standards specified.
•    To ensure transactions are handled with in the allocated approved limits at all times, on a continual basis. 
•    Continuous Improvement in Productivity to the standards prescribed for the Processes from time to time.
•    Comply with Group Money Laundering Prevention Policy and Procedures to the extent applicable and escalate any unusual/complex transaction on the AML aspect to the AML advisors.

People & Talent 

•    To ensure the team is well managed, planning for the day/week. 
•    To ensure planned leaves and enough back-ups created for seamless business delivery. 
•    To ensure on-going training for Staff on the DOI, process upgrades and deputing them for product related trainings.
•    To ensure the motivation levels of the Staff is kept high always.
•    To encourage Staff to participate in C3, CSR activities. 

Risk Management
•    Upholding the Values of the Group and Company at all times.
•    Compliance with all applicable Rules/ Regulations and Company and Group Policies.
•    To identify risk on a continual basis and derive mitigants on a sustained basis. 

Governance 
•    Comply with Group Sanctions Policy and Procedures.
•    Comply with Local Sanctions Policy and Procedures, if any.

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.
•    Lead the Trade Operations Team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.  
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. 

Key stakeholders
To effectively manage key stakeholders, Country Offices, Regulators, Superiors, Peers, Subordinates. 

•    Academic Qualification: Bcom / MCom / MBA / BE with relevant experience of 8+ years
•    Relevant Trade Certification such as CDCS, CSDG, CTF as applicable to the role.
•    Trade Level II & III certification completion.
•    AML & Sanctions Training, yearly certification. 

•    Technical Competencies
•    Product Knowledge – Collection, LC, Guarantee & OAF
•    Knowledge on SWIFT Gateway & Payments
•    Understanding of Risk Involved in Trade Products
•    Leadership Competencies
•    Manage Risk 

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

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.