Standard Chartered India | Team Leader, Markets Onboarding Client Data - Global Markets

Responsibilities

• The role acts as a subject-matter resource for complex agreement-data queries, applies maker-checker controls, coordinates with Markets Contracts, Legal, Sales, Relationship Managers, Margin Operations, Credit, Compliance, Technology and downstream consumers, and contributes to remediation, audit support, system enhancements and continuous improvement.
• Maintain control evidence, including completed Data Entry checklists and supporting documents, in the approved repository and iCDMS record; promptly remediate identified exceptions and preserve a clear audit trail.
• Identify operational, data-quality, conduct and regulatory risks; escalate material issues, recurring error themes, unclear ownership, system defects and breaches through the agreed governance channels.
• Respond to stakeholder queries using the executed agreement and system record as the authoritative basis, clearly distinguishing data-entry responsibility from legal interpretation and policy ownership.
• Manage assigned work to agreed service levels, prioritising regulatory, client, risk and business-critical requests while communicating realistic timelines, dependencies and exceptions.
• Support downstream consumers by ensuring agreement data flows accurately to platforms and processes used for margining, exposure, risk, netting, booking controls and regulatory reporting.
• Participate in iCDMS/TCDS enhancements, impact assessments, user-acceptance testing and implementation readiness for new products, regulations, data attributes and downstream integrations.
• Analyse error trends, manual touchpoints, hand-offs and legacy-data gaps; recommend practical improvements that strengthen data quality, reduce rework, improve turnaround time and minimise operational risk.
• Maintain current working knowledge of Global Markets products, agreement structures, process procedures, control standards and system guidance.
• Prepare and maintain process documentation, user guides, training material, management information and evidence packs for governance, audit and assurance reviews.
• Review executed legal documents and supporting instructions and accurately capture required contractual and static-data attributes in iCDMS/TCDS for ISDA Master Agreements, legacy and regulatory CSAs, IM/VM CSAs, GMRAs, GMSLAs, fund agreements and other supported document types.
• Interpret agreement provisions covering termination, branches, governing law, product scope, thresholds, minimum transfer amounts, independent amounts, eligible collateral, interest, netting, regulatory attributes and related terms; obtain Legal or Markets Contracts clarification where wording is bespoke or ambiguous.
• Perform maker or checker responsibilities independently, validating the correctness, completeness and validity of data against executed documents, approved checklists and supporting approvals before changing a case to Executed status.
• Partner with Markets Contracts and Legal, Markets Sales, Relationship Managers, Margin Operations, Credit, CVA, Compliance, Client Onboarding, Technology and other Operations teams to resolve onboarding blockers and enable clients to become operationally ready to trade.
• Share subject-matter knowledge, support cross-skilling and onboarding of colleagues, and provide clear guidance on complex cases while preserving maker-checker independence.
• Netting and Regulatory Data

Qualifications

• Knowledge, Governance and Team Contribution.
• Experience in Global Markets Operations, Markets Client Onboarding, agreement data management, legal-documentation operations, client static data, collateral operations or a comparable controlled operational environment.
• Hands-on experience reviewing executed financial-markets legal agreements and translating contractual terms into structured system data.
• Working knowledge of ISDA, CSA, GMRA and GMSLA documentation and the operational implications of netting, collateral, margining, regulatory and product-scope terms.
• Experience operating maker-checker controls, managing exceptions, supporting audits or control testing, performing root-cause analysis and maintaining evidence to defined standards.
• Experience collaborating across Legal, Sales, Relationship Management, Credit, Margin Operations, Compliance, Technology and Operations, including the ability to resolve dependencies and communicate escalations.
• Exposure to system change, UAT, data remediation, process improvement, management information and training or knowledge-transfer activity is desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience in finance, commerce, business, law, operations, data management or a related discipline.
• Relevant training or certification in derivatives, financial markets, operational risk, data management, business analysis or process improvement is advantageous but not mandatory.
• Professional proficiency in English, including the ability to interpret complex contractual wording and prepare clear written responses, procedure documents and audit evidence.

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is an international banking group headquartered in London, with a strong focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It was formed in 1969 through the merger of Standard Bank and The Chartered Bank.

Its Indian global business services centres hire finance professionals for financial control, stress testing, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Present in India for over 150 years, with global business services centres in Bengaluru and Chennai