Job Description

Job: Retail Banking
Primary Location: Asia-Singapore-Singapore
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 18/Aug/2022, 6:49:04 AM
Unposting Date: Ongoing

Role Responsibilities
We are looking for a dynamic individual to join the Platform and Strategic Initiatives team, an integral part of the Group Managed Investments team (Wealth Management) within Standard Chartered Bank.
Group Managed Investments team covers Funds, Alternative Investments and ETFs and owns the approval process for these products across the retail and private bank segments. The Platform and Strategic Initiatives team in turn supports the Managed Investments team for primarily non due diligence matters.
This is an Associate/ Associate Director (Band 6-7) role, based in Singapore, with a hybrid WFH + WFO setup. Responsibilities
Distribution Agreements

• End to end management and coordination of Global Distribution Agreements and other onboarding documents for Funds and Alternative Investments.
• Lead project management for migration of existing global distribution agreements to Clearstream Fund Centre, and key contact point for the Clearstream Fund Centre relationship.
• Management of KYC forms as part of third-party fund provider’s due diligence on SCB.

Sales Data Management

• Overall responsibility and ownership of all Managed Investments sales, revenue and AUM data collation and dissemination.
• Ensure timely publication of performance/sales trends data of the Managed Investments business to internal/external stakeholders.
• Work closely with key fund partners to manage the sales data required for business meetings as well as for senior stakeholders.

Fund Marketing Materials

• Ensure timely publication and accuracy of data for client friendly fund marketing materials (Fund Select List, Fund Select Tearsheet, Fund Select Guidebook, Fund Select Snapshots).
• Lead project management for automation of fund marketing materials.

Project Management

• Support and assist the team in all projects related to Managed Investments.

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.
• Lead the Platform and Strategic Initiatives team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s 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

• Product teams, Legal, CFCC, COO teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Singapore/Wealth Management/Group MI; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); N/A.

Our Ideal Candidate

• University Graduate with 5+ years of experience in the wealth management/asset management industry, with broad knowledge of both front office and middle office work.
• Competent in Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience with utilising Lipper, Morningstar, Bloomberg databases.
• Communication and analytical skills are paramount.
• Able to work independently, but also be an effective team player.
• Meticulous and attention to detail is key.
• Enjoy working in a challenging, fast paced environment.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Products and Processes
• Market Knowledge

About 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 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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