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Job Summary

• The Vice President - APAC Head, Uncleared Margin Services is the senior regional operations leader for the Uncleared Margin function within the Global Margin Operations team. The role is accountable for the end-to-end delivery, control and evolution of uncleared margin services across APAC, managing the complexity created by multiple countries, legal entities, currencies, products, market infrastructures, time zones, client conventions and local regulatory requirements while ensuring alignment with the global operating model.
• The role provides regional ownership for complex margin arrangements spanning derivatives, repo, securities lending, Prime Services, structured transactions, local-currency and other bespoke collateral structures. It translates country-specific legal, regulatory, credit, tax, documentation, custody, settlement and market-practice requirements into scalable operating models, system capabilities, controls and clearly governed exceptions.
• As the principal Margin Services partner for APAC clients and Markets stakeholders, the role supports client retention, new-country and new-product onboarding, and sustainable business growth. It evaluates complex requests holistically, balancing client and commercial outcomes with regulatory obligations, credit and liquidity risk, operational resilience, technology dependency, control readiness, capacity and cost.
• The role leads the APAC Margin Services organisation, establishes strong country-to-region-to-global governance, and acts as the senior escalation point for service issues,



high-value disputes, settlement risk, incidents and delivery constraints. It drives simplification, automation and standardisation while preserving necessary local controls and ensuring seamless support across APAC market hours.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• Define and execute the APAC Margin Services strategy, aligned with regional client priorities, country growth plans, global service standards, risk appetite and applicable regulatory obligations.
• Design a scalable regional operating model that accommodates APAC country, legal-entity, currency, custody, settlement, documentation and market-infrastructure differences without creating uncontrolled fragmentation.
• Maintain a forward roadmap for APAC regulatory change, new markets, recent products, client propositions and infrastructure developments, translating demand into coordinated process, technology, data, control and capacity outcomes.
• Prioritise regional investment and change using client value, growth opportunity, regulatory and credit urgency, operational risk, control readiness, technology complexity and strategic fit.
• Drive convergence toward automated, resilient and standardised services while defining clear principles for necessary country-specific or bespoke solutions.

Business




• Own the regional operational relationship for priority APAC clients and act as the senior Margin Services partner for APAC Trading, Sales, Product, Client Coverage, COO and country teams.
• Support business growth through controlled onboarding of new clients, countries, legal entities, exchanges, products and complex collateral arrangements, with clear feasibility, risk, cost, capacity and delivery assessments.
• Structure pragmatic operating solutions for local-currency margining, country-specific repo and securities-lending models, structured and Prime Services requirements, non-standard settlement flows and bespoke reporting.
• Build trusted relationships with clients and internal partners across diverse APAC markets, ensuring clear service ownership, culturally effective communication and timely resolution of complex issues.
• Represent APAC priorities in global operations, technology and investment forums while protecting global standards and preventing unmanaged local variations.
• Provide senior ownership of material regional service issues and business-critical events, ensuring rapid mobilisation, transparent communication and sustainable resolution.

Processes
• Lead the APAC Uncleared Margin function within Global Margin Operations, overseeing end-to-end services including agreement and static-data readiness, trade and exposure validation, IM, VM and Independent Amount calls, disputes, collateral allocation, settlement, interest, substitutions, returns, portfolio reconciliation, reporting and exception management.
• Manage APAC Margin Operations to ensure accurate and timely booking of margin calls and collateral movements, prompt response to inbound calls, and timely acknowledgement of all margin communicatio

📌 Vice President- Head, APAC Margin Services (Bengaluru)
🏢 Standard Chartered Bank
📍 Bengaluru