Job Description

Job Summary
The role requires the candidate to have processing capabilities for various corporate actions, including:
o Corporate Action announcements and related tasks
o Processing client instructions for voluntary/proxy events
o Processing benefit collections
The ideal candidate will have a sound understanding of the corporate actions and be able to efficiently process them.
Key Responsibilities
To assist the Section head and ensure timely and accurate processing and reporting of following transactions / activities

• Tracking of Corporate Action announcements for Equity and Debt securities through Vendor Feeds, Exchange websites, Depositories Circulars, Company notices/offer documents, Newspapers etc
• Recording and reporting of Corporate Actions Announcements to clients and internal stakeholders
• Tracking and Processing of regional custody corporate actions.
• Follow-up, reporting, collection and processing of Corporate Actions Benefits on Equity and Debt Securities
• Execution of Cash and Securities entitlements in clients' beneficiary accounts
• Processing of client instructions for IPOs, QIP, Voluntary Corporate Actions including PUT/CALL options and FDI/FVCI Deals
• Tracking and processing of Proxy events viz. follow-up for agendas/annual reports, execution of proxy instructions, reporting of meeting updates.
• Processing of securities for registration, demat / remat and inward
• To revert to all the queries received from the clients.
• Assist Team Leader/Section Head in any other adhoc assignments

Processes

• Responsible for accurate execution of day-to-day BAU operations of corporate action processing, timely reporting to clients and internal stakeholders. Must ensure all the laid down controls, procedures and regulatory requirements are followed and achieve established targeted standards of productivity.

Risk Management

• Responsible for timely highlighting/ escalating issues, reporting of exceptions and operational challenges, high volumes in assigned BAU operations to Team Leader / Line Manager.

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.
• Lead 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.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• Functional Officers / Managers - Operational matters
• Tech Teams - System related matters
• Ops Review / QA Team - Reconciliations / Audit submissions
• Client Services Team - Client queries / updates
• RTAs / Issuers / Vendors - Corporate Action operational matters
• Depositories / Exchanges / Lead Managers - Information on securities and corporate action offerings

Other Responsibilities

• To perform any job or task resulting from any exigencies as well as those which may be assigned by Team Leader / Line Manager.

Skills and Experience

• Knowledge on capital market
• Awareness of exchange and depository operations
• MS office applications

Qualifications
Graduate of any stream.
Should have

• 2 to 3 years of experience in custody operations/capital markets
• Sound knowledge of Custody operations especially securities market practices in trading and corporate action events.
• Awareness of exchange and depository operations
• Sound knowledge of SWIFT Messaging
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, to deal with counterparties/companies/registrars
• Analytical ability
• working knowledge of MS office applications

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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