Markets Business & Client Solutions, West Africa Head

Job Summary

The role holder is responsible for full end-to-end governance, oversight and reconciliation of Markets products for In-country Financial Markets trades across West African sites .This includes but is not limited to, line management of all team members, both in-country and across West African sites, development of teams, objective setting and support for career progression. Strong understanding of local regulatory requirements, identification of process gaps, review of existing onshore controls and introduction of new controls, maintaining seamless high quality regulatory reporting standards across all West Africa sites and governance for all operational outsourced service undertaken by offshore hubs servicing West Africa.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Clearly define key objectives for all West Africa Markets Business & Client Solutions (MBCS) teams and ensure full alignment to global Objectives & key results (OKRs)
• Provide both local and cross-border team management, ensuring connectivity for all local teams.
• Ensuring consistency of service standards / processes where possible across West African sites.
• Ownership (COO) of all open operational risk issues originating in West African sites and responsible for closing them out as a priority, in partnership with Chief Operating Officer and Risk Managers.
• Act with integrity with stakeholders, ensuring regular follow ups on ad hoc issues and delivery as a priority.
• Understanding and ensuring compliance for all West African local regulatory requirements.
• Attending all local regulatory working groups and local risk committees for West African sites and responsible for remediation of all open risks for West Africa.
• Liaise with and govern Global offshore teams in India / Malysia to ensure services delivered are of high quality, with appreciation of local business nuances.
• To support their country MBCS Country Team Leads to deliver the Markets Business strategy as it relates to role.
  
  

Business

• Management and oversight of the day-to-day operations impacting West African desks. Aligning operations team focus to the business strategy and priorities.
• Monitoring service issues and ensuring the relevant team is proactively reviewing and implementing action plans to rectify issues.
• Ensuring compliance with all Group and Country policies, Code of Conduct, and consistency in execution, and to ensure that statutory regulations and laws as a corporate body are met and satisfied.
  
  

Processes

• Escalation contact for all Market West Africa Sales/FX Trading Desks/Rates/Treasury Market / Change to wealth management (CMPS/) COO.
• Accountable for all MBCS customer service for internal and external customers
• Management of referred issues by Offshore External validation and Foreign exhange money market (FXMM) Settlement and Clearing teams.
• Responsible for coordinating and providing sign off for new local system testing and verification.
• Accountable for ensuring required standards of customer service quality, efficiency, and productivity; and where necessary, approve / agree analysis undertaken by local incountry operations teams, identify and implement process efficiencies and reduce Turn around Time (TAT)
• Ensure compliance with all relevant laws & regulations, responsible for ensuring all processes are documented and up to date.
• Point of escalation for any irregularities observed within job role.
• Reviewing and signing off detailed testing of disaster recovery contingency plans.
• Oversee Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) for West Africa to ensure no thematic or aged breaks are outstanding across all sites.
• Responsible for the local Regulatory projects.
• Responsible to ensure the regulatory reports are rendered within timelines and processes are clear and mitigate operational risks.
• Correctly apply local and group policies, procedures, and circulars to transaction processing.
• Oversee all outsourced processes and risk issues as well as the local contact/escalation point
• Responsible for all local errors, near misses and loss raised ensuring the teams escalate within bank guidelines and all write ups are detailed and concise as well are remediation plans are implemented within agreed timelines.
• Represent West Africa MBCS in Client Journey Service Reviews and Client Service Meetings.
• Accountable for all of Foreign Exchange (FX) Branch suspense account breaks and ensuring they’re matched off quickly.
• Oversight of Nostro and suspense breaks for West Africa.
• Responsible in ensuring all Balance Sheet Substantiations are completed across West Africa on time.
  
  

People & Talent

• Identify and foster local talent within the West Africa teams.
• Consistent upskilling of team members through cross-training and support of soft skills development.
• Provide clear vision and objectives to the West Africa teams.
• Be a thought leader and be a good example to the teams via appropriate behaviours, culture and values.
• Lead and support to MBCS West Africa team.
• Provide detailed cost & feasibility analysis for market & operational initiatives and team transformation.
• Oversight and accountable for all local and global projects which impact the local department’s processes.
  
  

Risk Management

• Escalation contact for any operational risks identified along with the Risk Manager and responsible for ensure appropriate controls and mitigations are put in place.
• Accountable for ensuring all identified control testing defects are resolved, including identification of root causes and any associated process changes required to minimize the probability of process failures.
• Accountable for ensure team is aware of money laundering risks and understand key principles in relation to: Identifying your customer, knowing your customer, reporting suspicions, safeguarding records, and not disclosing suspicions to customers.
• Support Markets Business Client Solutions Cluster Head to execute risk and control responsibilities as a Country Process Owner.
• Ensure operational incidents (losses or near misses) are logged in accordance with relevant polices.
• Ensure root causes reports relating to operational incidents are completed in line with the Banks policies including meeting of all reporting timelines. This includes the implementation of any appropriate process and control changes to minimize the probability of a recurrence.
• Responsible for the proactive identification and escalation / reporting of all exceptions on non-compliance with standard controls.
  
  

Governance

• Provision of oversight for all process ensuring a sustainable level of control is applied to daily processes.
• Undertaking trend analysis of performance benchmark standards (straight through processing attainment, query resolution turnaround times etc)
• Accountable for all External and Internal audits and remediation management
• Owner of country Service Level agreement (SLAs).
• Define and review departmental performance metrics for local and outsourced process.
• Carry out daily and monthly reviews of service provide performance.
  
  

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.
• Support MBCS in achieving 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

• Markets Trading / Sales / COO / Credit Risk / Centre of Excellence (CoE) Sites
• Finance
• Technology
• Legal & Compliance
• Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Regulator & FMDQ Exchange
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Manage Risk
• Manage Change
• Business Governance & Support
• Manage People
• Develop Talent
  
  

Qualifications

Education University Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Maths, Engineerin

Certifications ACI Certified, preferred

Languages English

• This role would require a university degree, 10+ years of relevant experience in financial institution.
• FM products expert in FXMM, Rates, Credit.
• Experience in cross-border team management of multiple teams.
• Market Knowledge: Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the firm operates.
• Risk Management and Control: – Accountable for governance of Key Risk Indicators for West Africa.
• Expert in understanding complex matrix systems and global banking operations.
• Knowledge of Regulatory reporting requirement is required.
• Proficient in PC Skills particularly Microsoft Excel
• Ability to work within a multi-function, multi-discipline team environment with good stakeholder management skills.
• Good communication, Interpersonal and excellent analytical skills.
  
  

Competencies

Action Oriented

Collaborates

Customer Focus

Gives Clarity & Guidance

Manages Ambiguity

Develops Talent

Drives Vision & Purpose

Nimble Learning

Decision Quality

Courage

Instills Trust

Strategic Mindset

Technical Competencies: This is a generic competency to evaluate candidate on role-specific technical skills and requirements

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.

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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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