Job ID: 37823
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Transaction Banking
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 26 Aug 2025

SUMMARY

The Financing & Securities Services (FSS) business has a unique footprint in Asia, Middle East, and Africa, and offers a growing range of products, including direct custody, global custody, funds services, trustee services, transfer agency, prime services, and agency securities lending, to a number of client sectors including banks, investors, intermediaries, sovereigns, fund managers insurance companies and corporates.

The jobholder is responsible for Product Management of FSS’ Global Custody responsible for (i) enabling a competitive product suite that will retain the existing book of business; (ii) developing new products and services to respond to market changes and generate new revenue streams, especially in the Investors & Asset Owner client segment; and (iii) to ensure these is done within a controlled and compliant environment

• Dynamically manages the entire suite of FSS’ Global Custody-related products.
• Rationalizes the existing target operating model of FSS’ Global Custody and associated the product suite to maintain our competitive edge:
• Identify opportunities to drive further growth for FSS.
• Ensure an efficient & simplified operating model (including removing any impediments to growth) across Global Custody components, including:
• Contractual Structures.
• Operational Services.
• Treasury, FX & Cash.
• 3rd party agent network.
• Client Services.
• Ancillary services (such as fund order routing, contractual services, withholding tax services).
• Leads the functions under Global Custody Product Management, to drive client agenda and business goals,
• Manages the regional and local product resources to provide insightful analysis of industry developments, market changes and competitor offerings to identify threats and opportunities, assess the impact on clients and offer appropriate and innovative product solutions.
• Works collaboratively with members of the FSS stakeholders, Financial Markets (FM) Treasury & FX, Client Coverage (CC), as well as Transaction Banking Cash (TB Cash) teams to ensure cross-product, cross-business opportunities are realised.
• Maintains close contacts with key clients to maintain strong familiarity with changing view and priorities within the industry.
• Leads the FSS’ Global Custody Innovation agenda, ensuring FSS are outpacing industry peers in both thought and delivery leading to commercialisation.

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

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Performance Management
• Industry Knowledge
• Marketing Strategy and Positioning
• Product Design and Development
• Securities Laws and Regulations (SLR) Compliance

The jobholder is responsible for Product Management of FSS’ Global Custody responsible for (i) enabling a competitive product suite that will retain the existing book of business; (ii) developing new products and services to respond to market changes and generate new revenue streams, especially in the Investors & Asset Owner client segment; and (iii) to ensure these is done within a controlled and compliant environment

• Dynamically manages the entire suite of FSS’ Global Custody-related products.
• Rationalizes the existing target operating model of FSS’ Global Custody and associated the product suite to maintain our competitive edge:
• Identify opportunities to drive further growth for FSS.
• Ensure an efficient & simplified operating model (including removing any impediments to growth) across Global Custody components, including:
• Contractual Structures.
• Operational Services.
• Treasury, FX & Cash.
• 3rd party agent network.
• Client Services.
• Ancillary services (such as fund order routing, contractual services, withholding tax services).
• Leads the functions under Global Custody Product Management, to drive client agenda and business goals,
• Manages the regional and local product resources to provide insightful analysis of industry developments, market changes and competitor offerings to identify threats and opportunities, assess the impact on clients and offer appropriate and innovative product solutions.
• Works collaboratively with members of the FSS stakeholders, Financial Markets (FM) Treasury & FX, Client Coverage (CC), as well as Transaction Banking Cash (TB Cash) teams to ensure cross-product, cross-business opportunities are realised.
• Maintains close contacts with key clients to maintain strong familiarity with changing view and priorities within the industry.
• Leads the FSS’ Global Custody Innovation agenda, ensuring FSS are outpacing industry peers in both thought and delivery leading to commercialisation