Quantitative Analyst
Standard Chartered Bank

Job Info

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Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Working with traders, structurers, and other modellers to execute product development plans in line with business priorities.

Business

• Awareness of the economic, market and regulatory environment in which FM operates, especially as regards model and analytics capabilities

Processes

• Develop and maintain models for the pricing and risk management of derivative products.
• Delivery of model documentation and testing material.
• Improving and maintaining existing analytics.
• Research into alternative models and numerical techniques as well as ongoing assessment of models published in industry or academic literature.
• Provide day-to-day support for relevant business units.

People & Talent

• Strong academic qualifications in a quantitative subject (e.g., Financial Mathematics, Master's, or PhD)
• Experience developing/validating financial markets derivative pricing/risk models in an international bank
• Good knowledge of interest rate or credit models, numerical methods, stochastic calculus, and probability theory
• Good communication skills (verbal and written English)
• Some knowledge of C++ programming is essential
• Knowledge of financial market products, market conventions and regulatory requirements
• Knowledge of functional programming is a plus

Risk Management

• 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.

Governance

• Ensure models are developed and maintained in-line with the applicable policies and standards.
• Comply with the Operational Risk Framework.
• Proactively support the implementation of the Group Model Risk policy.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead the [country / business unit / function/[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.] *

Key stakeholders

• Trading, Sales, and Structuring business colleagues
• MAG developers
• Market Risk Analytics
• Model implementation delivery (MAG Cortex, SABRE, etc.)
• Group Model Validation
• FM model risk management

QUALIFICATIONS

TRAINING, LICENSES, MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• EDUCATION Qualifications in quantitative subject (e.g., Financial Mathematics, Master's, or PhD)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strong academic qualifications in a quantitative subject (e.g., Financial Mathematics, Master's, or PhD)
• Experience developing/validating financial markets derivative pricing/risk models in an international bank
• Good knowledge of interest rate or credit models, numerical methods, stochastic calculus, and probability theory
• Good communication skills (verbal and written English)
• Some knowledge of C++ programming is essential
• Knowledge of financial market products, market conventions and regulatory requirements

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 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

• 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.

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 100,000 USD to 100,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

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