Standard Chartered—Officer, Fx and payments

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Description: Job Summary Role Purpose • Control FX and Payments Banking activities, perform required authorisations and checks, and ensure adherence to established standards and benchmarks. • Deliver timely, controlled and efficient FX, cash settlement, payment, reconciliation, client-reporting and regulatory-reporting services for Securities Services clients. • Maintain effective relationships with clients, Stock Exchanges and internal stakeholders while supporting continuous automation and implementation of market and regulatory changes. Key Responsibilities Core operational delivery • Book FX deals for Securities Services clients in line with standing or specific instructions and process inward and outward telegraphic transfers. • Manage daily ALM and client reporting and daily, weekly and monthly reporting to RBI, SEBI, FIU and the Exchanges. • Ensure timely exchange pay-in and pay-out, RTGS/NEFT payments, funding availability checks and support for early-morning or night-shift client funding requirements. • Compute Capital Market Exposure and contingent liability and support CRILC reporting. • Complete daily cash reconciliation and sundry/suspense reconciliation, maintaining required controls and procedures. Process improvement, controls and stakeholder outcomes • Drive automation across cash settlement and regulatory reporting to improve speed and reduce manual-entry risk. • Maintain processing capability above industry standards while ensuring compliance with Key Control Standards. • Implement new market and regulatory changes impacting operations and maintain effective contingency, cross-section and knowledge backups. • Maintain constructive relationships with clients, Stock Exchange officials and other Bank sections/divisions. • Operate as a non-people-leader role, while contributing to knowledge sharing, backup readiness and collaborative delivery. Skills and Experience Must-have Skills • Securities Services banking operations (Advanced) • FX booking, inward/outward remittances and client interaction (Core) • FEMA requirements for FII inward and outward remittances Other Skills • NSE/BSE and Clearing Corporation byelaws, rules and regulations • Cash settlement, payment processing and funding controls • Regulatory, ALM and client reporting • Cash and sundry/suspense reconciliation Qualifications • Key Experiences: At least 5 years of Securities Services banking operations experience; direct client interaction for inward and outward remittances; working knowledge of securities operations. • Certifications / Qualifications (only where mandatory): Graduate / Post Graduate Degree. Motivations • Delivering accurate, timely and well-controlled payment, FX and cash-settlement outcomes. • Solving operational and regulatory challenges through automation, simplification and stronger controls. • Building trusted working relationships with clients, market infrastructure and internal teams. 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.