Manager - Treasury Services

Job Summary

Your role involves timely and accurate forecasting of approximately 900 nostro accounts across 10 centers, covering intragroup accounts, third-party agents, and central banks, managing around $500 billion in daily liquidity. This responsibility requires close collaboration with funding and trading desks within Treasury and FX, as well as regular coordination with various teams across the bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Successful delivery of treasury functions aligned with daily forecasting, intraday liquidity (IDL) and cash management functions.

• Calculation and provision of funding forecasts to Treasury Markets and FX desks in line with agreed cutoffs on an intraday basis. Provision of root cause evaluation on key funding drivers and forecast swings.

• Intraday liquidity monitoring and management of the firm’s central bank accounts

• Proactive management of payment scheduling systems to ensure the firm’s throughput requirements as well as time critical payments are met

• Reconciliation of forecasted vs actual nostro settlements in near real time, including exception management and manual adjustments.

• Communicate forecasts and related info to the Treasury and FX trading desks.

• Support / deliver strategies linked to forecasting, IDL, and nostro cost related optimization

• Partner with the TS MT to further enhance and build on the team’s Target Operating Model.

• Be a key business partner and support contact to Treasury Markets to ensure effective real time funding and liquidity management decision-making.

• Cash management processes to manage IDL and funding

• Real time forecasting and IDL related KRIs / dashboards for close monitoring and escalation on an intraday basis

• Provision of Nostro MI in terms of next day balance reporting / explanations, monthly cost management, balance trends / root causes

• Familiarize with Group Operational Risk, Group Money Laundering Prevention and other Policy and Procedures to the extent applicable.

• Actively assess risks and potential failure points in the processes handled and help highlight the areas to line managers and risk teams

Our Ideal CandidateExperience:

• Minimum 4 year's relevant experience in any Banking operations
• Minimum 1 years’ experience of funding and liquidity management
• Prior experience in business facing support functions - particularly Treasury and/or FX is useful
• Prior experience in Payments, Settlements / Confirmations (Securities, FX, Rates) is useful

Skills:

• Good verbal & written English communication
• Excellent analytical capabilities
• Proficient in PC skills, particularly MS Office
• Leadership qualities and interpersonal skills
• Prioritization of activities
• Problem solving / Trouble shooting skills
• Ability to identify, mitigate and eliminate risks in processes.

• Nostro Forecasting (capturing multiple products and asset classes including FX, Rates, Money Market, Securities, Client Vostro’s etc)
• Intraday Liquidity Management (throughput, payment queue management)
• Good knowledge of forecasting, IDL and cash management functions and processes (funding driver and variance explains, payment scheduling/throughput, cash sweeps)

Good knowledge of Central Bank, Nostros, Vostro's

• Knowledge in IDL and related areas - systems and processes linked to IDL management and optimization, peak usage, stress metrics and associated HQLA buffers
• Knowledge in front to back flows, particularly related to payments and settlements across asset classes is useful
• Good knowledge of MT / ISO payment and statement related messages (PACS, CAMT, MT9x, MT5x)

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 offerIn 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.