Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

Leads a team for effective management of investment funds proposition and services to maximize growth of bank\xe2\x80\x99s fee-based income growth and Asset Under Management.

Strategy

• Building a business line that can sustainably grow income and AUM through comprehensive product proposition.

Business

New Product Development

• Manage the end-to-end development of investment products including but not limited to mutual funds to grow fee income revenue and assets under management across segments.
• Lead product ideation or product sourcing, provider sourcing, product approval, provider approval, pricing strategy, seeking sponsorship, training to various segment including Personal, Preferred, Priority and Priority Private.
• Establish new product marketing strategy including product direction, positioning strategy, pricing, promotion.

Investment P&L Management

• Manage investment fee income revenue and related investment product activities required to meet corporate financial goals.
• Manage cost to target cost / income ratio to meet department and organizational financial goals.

Processes

Product Provider Management

• Conduct due diligence on new product provider and recommend to Group for approval.
• Perform periodic due diligence and maintain recorded documentation on existing partners to ensure minimum provider standards are met.

Product Marketing and Management - Work with investment advisors to provide on-going product related support and activities to grow fee income and AUM. This includes but not limited to

• Collaborate effectively with IA Group and Local CPBB management to formulate and implement local investment fund services strategy and business plans within Group and Country guidelines, to achieve Investment Fund Services targets.
• Coordinate investment seminars to increase the level of knowledge and understanding of investments Funds.
• Coordination of active product updates (internally and externally).
• Prepare and coordinate portfolio rebalancing management to best adapt to market conditions.

People and Talent

• Constantly upskill, reskill and train key stakeholders (client relationship teams and IA teams).

Governance

• Ensure the implementation of appropriate systems and operational procedures to support investment sales and securities transactions and the effective administration of customer accounts.
• Implement appropriate rules and guidelines to ensure that all internal and external, legal, compliance and risk management requirements are met within IA - related sales and service activity.
• Product record keeping, manage corporate actions with related stakeholders and manage interface with internal stakeholders and external product providers.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s 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

• Client Relationship teams, Investment Advisors, CPBB Marketing, Operations, Retail Analytics, Client Experience, Affluent Segment Proposition, Wealth Management teams, external partners

Our Ideal Candidate

• IPCC, FIMM
• CFA / CFP preferred

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Portfolio Theory
• Asset Allocation
• Market Knowledge (SIF)
• Products and Processes

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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