Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst

Job Summary
We are seeking a dedicated Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst to join our in CCR London team within Standard Chartered. The role is London-based where most of the traders and salespersons are sat. Europe has become an increasingly active place for the Markets business, requiring frequent interaction between the 1st Line of Defense and 2nd Line of Defense.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring robust risk management practices in the traded products domain, specifically focusing on traded credit risk across European markets. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and communicating the Traded Risk Framework, managing risk exposures, and supporting governance and strategic alignment initiatives.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders including business partners, Market Risk, Finance, Legal, and Compliance teams to uphold the integrity and transparency of risk-return decisions. Your work will contribute significantly to the sustainable growth and risk appetite conformity of the bank's financial markets operations.

Joining our team offers the opportunity to be part of a globally respected financial institution committed to innovation and continuous improvement, and to develop your career in a dynamic and inclusive environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor counterparty risk exposures and limits, and understand material changes, provide early warnings on credit deterioration and managing exposures proactively.
• Exercise direct ownership of Risk Control and Monitoring for Traded Credit Risk within Financial Markets businesses throughout Europe, ensuring risks are assessed accurately and transparently.
• Address queries from the business on new trades, risk methodologies and processes.
• Support Head CCR Europe for any CCR related asks.
• Effectively communicate and implement the Traded Risk Framework across traded products within Financial Markets, ensuring compliance with group policies and improving governance and reporting processes.
• Maintain strong oversight of risk/return decisions, assuring they align with the Group's standards and risk appetite, and are managed with integrity.
• Engage with internal stakeholders such as Market Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Finance to raise awareness and manage product risks effectively within Financial Markets.
• Enable business operations by approving product programs and country-specific addendums, defining counterparty limits for liquidity management and trading activities, and refining credit excess approval guidelines that enhance turnaround and approval criteria.
• Contribute actively to the function's strategic objectives and collective agenda for traded risk management.
• Develop and maintain risk management capabilities, skill sets, and infrastructure to meet evolving business demands.
• Ensure operational risks within the traded risk management function are managed effectively, and that all activities comply with internal policies and external regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree or higher qualification in Finance, Economics, Risk Management, or a related field from a recognized institution.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in a counterparty credit risk role within the second line of defence, covering financial institutions credit risk.
• Good understanding of counterparty credit risk and solid traded products knowledge, specifically FX, interest rates, and secured financing products.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and risk metrics.
• Demonstrated teamwork skills with an ability to collaborate effectively across diverse stakeholders and departments.
• Good commercial and risk acumen with sound judgment in balancing risk and reward.
• Excellent communication abilities to articulate risk concerns and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A proactive approach to continuous learning and professional development.

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.

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