Market Product Specialist
The Role Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- To provide professional FI
product service and support to the CMPS Kenya team, Relationship Managers
and Investment Advisors with a view to increase flows and growth in the
country.
- Segments Covered: CPBB
- Regions Covered for FI: Kenya
- Develop tools & calculators to
improve efficiency on the FI execution desk
- Generate new business by working
closely with RMs, IAs.
- Provide quality economic
information to CMPS frontlines as part of education and promotion of Fixed
Income.
- Deal Execution on Fixed Income.
- Update and Maintain FI MIS on an
on-going basis.
- Online Fixed Income – Channel
development, enhancement and trouble shooting.
Start of Day
- Send opening Foreign Exchange
Rates to Frontline, GBS and clients (Mid rates, Counter rates, Special
rates & revaluation rates)
- Compose and disseminate the Daily
Market Flash to Kenya & Uganda frontline – Execute Kenya
- Send FX Revenue Tracker (EOD)
Book FX for CPBB clients.
- Provide term sheet/pricing for
LCY & FCY Fixed Income Securities to RMs & IAs
- Execute FI transactions on Bloomberg.
- Conduct auto FX set ups for
Personal, Premium and Priority Clients (Proxy)
- Settlement of FI trades through
Custody and GBS.
People and Talent
- Work closely with all
stakeholders to ensure efficient pricing, speed of response and
information sharing.
- Co-ordinate with traders to keep
abreast of Market movement.
Risk Management
- Ensure to highlight any potential
risk if any.
- Regular process reviews to pick
key themes that may point to emerging risks
- EOD sanity check on all deals
booked to arrest anomalies
Governance
- Ensure all laid down policies are
adhered to in the execution of our business and highlighting areas of
concern
- Ensure Regulatory and internal
compliance.
Regulatory and 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 Kenya CMPS 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
- CPBB Frontline and Heads of
Segment
- Governance
- Wealth Proposition Manager
- GBS teams
- Digital Channel Developers
- Retail Analytics
Our Ideal Candidate
- Regulations & Market Practice
(Kenya) – Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
- International Introduction to
Securities & Investment (Kenya) – CISI – Chartered Institute for
Securities & Investment
- ACI Dealing Certificate ACI – The
Financial Markets Association
- Degree or equivalent
Role Specific
Competencies
- ACI
- CISI
About Standard Chartered
We’re an international bank, nimble enough to
act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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 behaviors. 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
- Be 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,
parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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 – some of our roles use
assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you’ve
applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news.
It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our
recruitment process.
