Senior Product Manager, Sub-Advisor Solutions @ Standard Chartered

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

Think client, do the right thing. To investigate, analyse and report any exceptional findings owing to concerns arising from various monitoring activities. Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Governance

• Able to work independently, but also be an effective team player. Conduct thorough analysis and ongoing monitoring of sub-advised investment funds, including performance evaluation, risk assessment, and portfolio attribution analysis.
• Assist in the selection and due diligence process for potential new sub-advisors, including evaluating investment strategies, investment process, performance track record, team structure, and compliance and operational risk management

People & Talent

• Able to demonstrate initiative. Enjoy problem-solving and able to think out of the box, delivering client-centric solutions and building strong stakeholder relationships. Diligent, meticulous, well organized and willing to take on ad-hoc tasks delegated. Stay up-to-date on industry trends, and competitive landscape related to sub-advisory services.

Risk Management

Role Responsibilities

• Responsible for sourcing and identifying potential investment strategies to support the development and growth of our sub-advisor proposition across asset classes
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with experience in portfolio analysis, risk assessment, and performance evaluation to deliver high quality written assessments based on quantitative and qualitative analysis to assist selection and due diligence process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to manage and develop internally and externally approved collaterals
• Provide product training to both distribution and frontline staff

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business

• Seeking a highly motivated and experienced Fund/ Investment Analyst with an entrepreneurial attitude to support the development and growth of our sub-advisor proposition. Enjoy working in a challenging, fast-paced environment and able to meet tight deadlines.

Processes

• Live with integrity while performing due diligence and performance monitoring. Meet all governance and regulatory reporting requirements. Prepare regular reports and presentations to committees, internal and external stakeholders and clients.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Global Managed Investment Teams, Investment Advisory Teams, Front Office staff, CIO Office, Discretionary Portfolio Team, Sustainable Investment Team.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 4 + years of experience in investment analysis, due diligence, and/or portfolio management, preferably with a focus on sub-advised funds.
• Good knowledge of global equity and/or fixed income markets.
• Strong analytical, writing and presentation skills.
• Experienced user of mutual fund databases (Morningstar/Bloomberg) would be an added advantage.
• Relevant skills/experience as a product manager.
• Professional - Product Knowledge, Product Launch, Operational Knowledge and Governance.
• Mandarin or Cantonese language would be advantageous as the scope of the role will be to work on clients from predominantly in the North Asia-based market.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Experience in investment
• Funds Analysis
• Investment Analysis
• Morningstar / Bloomberg

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers

Employement Category:

Employement Type: Full time
Industry: Banking / Financial Services
Role Category: General / Other Software
Functional Area: Not Applicable
Role/Responsibilies: Senior Product Manager, Sub-Advisor Solutions

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Keyskills:   product development sales product management delivery portfolio analysis marketing