Associate Director, Treasury Risk & Trade Risk Management Pakistan

Job Summary

Treasury Risk is defined as the “potential for insufficient capital, liquidity or funding to support our

operations, the risk of reductions in earnings or value from movements in interest rates impacting

banking book items and the potential for losses from a shortfall in the Group’s pension plans”.

Role

The role’s primary aim is to ensure an appropriate funding profile and diversified sources of both unsecured and secured funding for the bank. This is done by managing the liquidity portfolio within an appropriate risk appetite to protect the liquidity of the bank whilst optimising for cost of funding and charging out the costs of liquidity and capital appropriately across the business lines. The role also focusses on:

• Ensuring potential loss of earnings or economic value due to adverse movements in interest rates foreign exchange are appropriately captured, measured and managed.
• Maintaining a usable set of capital and liquidity actions options in relation to BAU and recovery and resolution.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable regulations pertaining to Capital Risk, Liquidity & Funding Risk, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (“IRRBB”) and Pension Risk
  
  

The role also covers Traded Risk Management with particular focus on Market risk which is the risk of losses resulting from adverse changes in the value of positions arising from movements in market prices across commodity, credit, equity, FX and interest rates risk factors. Coverage will include daily monitoring and managing the price risk for Treasury Markets and Rates and FX businesses.

Key Responsibilities

• Inform the development of strategy planning work with the provision of all necessary Treasury and Traded Risk related inputs. Encourage the development of an appropriate risk culture and discipline
• Participation in ad-hoc projects and requests (e.g., as required by senior management and SC departments).
• Maintain appropriate relationships with regulators and rating agencies and liaise with internal / external auditors.
• Daily administrative matters of the local market risk, counterparty credit risk and treasury risk monitoring.
• Maintenance of relationship with local business units to provide traded and treasury risk support.
• Assist CCR regional teams in monitoring & reporting of FM positions from CCR perspective.
• In-depth product knowledge, Financial Markets instruments (capital markets, derivatives) and consumer banking.
• Implement Traded and Treasury Risk Management framework and policies.
• Implement sound controls and consistent processes.
• Uphold and reinforce the independence of the Function from those whose responsibility is to maximise short-term revenues and profits.
• Enhanced liquidity monitoring and keeping an eye on balance sheet trends and capital issues.
• IRRBB exposure monitoring and limits review on semi-annual and ad-hoc basis.
• Reviewing and challenging Recovery Plan.
• Advisory capacity for market risk limits (price risk) on limits issues (applications and excesses). This includes monitoring the applicability of the limits, policies, and standards to the local context.
• Represent Traded and Treasury Risk and support respective Country/ Executive Risk Committee on Country Traded and Treasury Risk Management.
• Provide guidance to FM sales, Structures, Relationship Managers, and Credit Officers about appropriateness and the suitability assessment of FM products.
• Undertake impact analysis of any market developments on the trading and banking book portfolio.
• Contribution to regular risk summaries for senior management in Traded and Treasury Risk.
• Help reviewing market risk limits framework on semi-annual and ad-hoc basis.
• Help designing new risk measures, reports and processes.
• UAT testing of new systems and reports.
• Ensure all market risk, counterparty credit risk and treasury risk activities are identified and monitored on a timely basis. This includes timely investigation and reporting of limit excesses of approval by the regional / Group Office.
• Review and analyse key exposures, limits, and their utilization in view of prevailing market conditions.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, standards, Codes and applicable external laws and regulations.
• 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
  

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.