Job Description

Job ID: 28376


Location: Johannesburg, ZA


Area of interest: Operations


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Office Working


Opening date: 3 Jun 2025

About our Transformation, Technology and Operations Team

Our Transformation, 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.

Job Summary

We're looking for a talented Senior Trade Officer, who will be responsible for coordinating and monitoring complex international trade transactions. The role will ensure seamless communication between multiple stakeholders, managing operational workflows and supporting the efficient execution of global trade processes while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards.



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.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure that all documents are accurately processed in compliance with statutory regulatory and internal operational instructions. Maintain process documentation, including workflow diagrams, department operating instructions and process manuals. Maintain high productivity and completion of tasks within assigned cycle times with high accuracy in execution of transactions. Identify opportunities for process optimisation and automation to enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk.

Skills and Experience

Experience in trade finance operations within a banking or financial institution. 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. Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in executing trade finance operations.

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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