Country Business Manager, FM India

Requisition Number: 44782

Job Location: Mumbai, IND

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 24/11/2025

Posting End Date: 14/01/2026

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Job Summary

• The Country Business Manager for Financial Markets business will support the Financial Markets Business Heads in executing FM India strategy, implementing business initiatives, helping ensure adherence to regulations and policies and provide risk & governance related support

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Definition and implementation of the local FM strategy and business initiatives;
• Execution and delivery of the global FM agenda locally.
• Partner with local support functions and stakeholders to unblock any business issues.

Business

• Articulation of business performance to stakeholders, and manage business under performance;
• Support the FM Country Head in supervising and coordinating in-country audits.
• Provide business support on dealing room management, e.g., capacity planning, business continuity, access controls, Service Level Agreements, licensing, etc.
• Business budgeting and forecasting requirements for businesses
• Driving and management of a prudent cost culture

Processes

• Continuously seek out process simplification and re-engineering opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders including GBS and ensure submissions are made on a timely basis
• Ensure that the submissions are accurate, complete, reconciled (where relevant) and specific to the requirements

People & Talent

• Manage & develop a high performing team of business managers supporting in country FM business – SCB India and GIFT City branch
• Be the "connector" between global and local and export best practices.

Risk Management

• Identify, assess and mitigate operational risks in-country.
• Establish and execute controls, monitor, report and escalate operational risks where appropriate in- country.
• Supervise and coordinate in-country audits;

Governance

• Operate effective supervision of FM, Treasury Markets and Wealth Management Product Sales (WMPS) staff in the dealing room, where applicable
• Support the FM Country Head in running of the Business Risk Forums (BRFs) and represent FM in other relevant risk / governance forums
• Ensure dealing room staff adhere to internal and external processes and procedures, and governance practices set out by the FM Process Governance Committees.
• Keep up to date with India & GIFT City regulations to assess impact / business opportunities and manage any changes to business processes and infrastructure.
• Liaise with the regulator (RBI) on data requirements for FM including fronting of the annual inspection exercise on behalf of FM

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 the FM COO India 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.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Financial Markets Head India
• Regional Business Management Chain
• Product & Sales Business Management Chain
• FM Business Heads
• FM Operations
• Finance
• FM Compliance
• FM Risk Functions – Market Risk, Traded Credit Risk, Operational Risk
• Audit & Assurance

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Financial Markets business and products;
• Professional Qualification (e.g. CA, MBA, CIMA, CFA) preferred.
• Strong Excel, and PowerPoint skills;

Skills and Experience

• MS Excel & Power Point Skills

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.