Senior Officer

Job ID: 39711

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 11 Sept 2025

Job Summary

• As a Commodities Specialist, you'll support our trade documentary processes by accurately preparing, reviewing and maintaining commodity related documentation, supporting strategic decision making and subject matter expertise to ensure consistent delivery of a high-quality service to our customers.

• You'll be a key part of our Trade Documentary team, who are responsible for supporting the efficient execution of Trade Finance operations within the Bank. The team are vitally important to the Bank's core strategy, handling transactions globally and minimising risk. You'll be part of a global, purpose-led business with the resources to support your unique career aspirations. This is your opportunity to solve complex problems, drive innovation and change, to help us achieve our strategic ambitions. Trade Documentary sits within our Transformation, Technology and Operations function.

About our Technology & Operations Team

• Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

• When you work with us, you're protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We're driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

Key Responsibilities

• You'll be ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality services, exceeding customer expectations and working accurately and efficiently, showcasing good business processes and sound judgement.
• Provide subject matter expertise and support to internal stakeholders.
• Ensure transactions are handled with in the allocated approved limits at all times, on a continual basis.
• Understand our workflows and processes, and prioritise transactions based on business and client requests.
• Maintain process documentation, including workflow diagrams, department operating instructions and process manuals.Identify opportunities for process optimisation and automation to enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk.

Skills and Experience

• Significant prior experience in trade finance operations within a banking or financial institution.
• Experience document checking under letter of credit.
• Knowledge of sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML).
• Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialists (CDCS) certification is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Trade Finance products, including export negotiations, guarantees and documentary collections.
• Knowledge of international trade rules and practices, including Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP600), International Standby Practices (ISP98), International Standard Banking Practice (ISBP745) and Uniform Rules for Collections (URC522).
• Familiarity with Trade Finance systems and technologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.

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.