Job Summary

This role could be based in Hong Kong and China. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based. 

Responsibilities

The role holder’s primary responsibility is to facilitate the team’s coverage of Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) exchange rate and interest rate markets. The candidate’s responsibilities include: information and data collection, monitoring regulatory changes and market developments, facilitate the building and maintenance of data models, contribute to the team’s analysis of FX and rates markets, and contribute to report publications and answering client inquiries. At a later stage, we expect the candidate to be more actively involved in conversations with both internal stakeholders (sales, trading, relationship managers, capital markets, securities services, and other teams) and the bank’s external clients globally.

• Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates to ensure that Greater China Macro Strategy research coverage is aligned with the bank’s footprint.
• Contribute to the Greater China Macro Strategy research team to help deliver world class content in Greater China macro strategy (FX, rates) research materials
• Work with the team to build models, track developments, and follow other factors that have an impact on Greater China FX and rates markets, to provide timely analysis and updates to both internal stakeholders and external clients, conduct strategy research to provide trade ideas, conduct client meetings and present at external events to discuss SCB house views
• Maintain and update models related to the Greater China exchange and interest rate markets, and facilitate data and information collection, and analysis of related markets
• Provide regular data and other information updates to the Greater China strategy team, the broader research team, internal stakeholders, and external clients
• Contribute to the team’s market analysis, preparation of presentation materials, report production, and other matters related to the coverage of these markets

Risk Management

•    Be responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group
•    Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them
•    Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control environment in Global Research 

Governance

•    Ensure adherence to the product governance both individually and within the global team
•    Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory
     requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Be responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge fellow executives effectively; and willingness to work 
     with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.

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.
•    Work with the China Macro Strategy team to achieve outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients;
     Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.

Skills and Experience

•    Analytical Thinking
•    Communicating Complex Concepts
•    Derivatives
•    Effective Presentations
•    Global Economic Analysis (GEA)
•    Mathematics of Financial Instruments
•    Oral Communications
•    Written Communications

Qualifications

•    Ideally for degree holder of relevant subjects, and experience of Investment Research, including emerging markets.
•    Advanced Product Knowledge
•    Advanced Financial Analysis
•    Advanced Client relationships 
•    Advanced Business and People management
•    The ability to write to a high standard and have excellent communications skills is essential.
•    The candidate must be able to speak and read both English and Mandarin

Location

• Preferably Hong Kong or Shenzhen (Mainland China)
• Other Mainland China locations (Shanghai/Beijing) can be negotiated for the right candidate

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.