Key Responsibilities
- Execute cash bonds, credit structured products, and other approved fixed income instruments across G10 and EM markets in both primary and secondary markets, ensuring competitive pricing and adherence to best execution standards.
- Maintain relationships with counterparties, brokers, and internal stakeholders to source liquidity, improve fills, and manage market impact.
- Provide client coverage support for Private Banking and Retail Banking businesses.
- Collaborate closely with Relationship Managers, Investment Advisors, and Treasury Specialists to deliver efficient execution, market insights, and trade feasibility assessments.
- Offer trade ideas, including execution strategies, liquidity considerations, and pricing levels, while ensuring proper segregation of duties between execution and advisory functions in accordance with policy.
- Support product rollouts and campaign execution for Retail where needed (e.g., new bond offerings), ensuring operational readiness and clear execution workflows.
- Implement long-term strategic and tactical plans to capture business opportunities within the footprint of SCB in Hong Kong for the Fixed Income asset class.
- Manage trade execution and market coverage effectively.
Ideal Candidate
- Bachelor’s degree is preferred (Finance, Business, Economics, or related technical discipline).
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in the financial industry, preferably in Middle Office / Trade Support or related capital markets functions.
- Practical Knowledge of Structured products, foreign exchange (FX), Fixed income products (FI).
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle from execution to settlement.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to investigate and resolve issues
- High attention to detailed and strong control/risk mindset
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work closely with various stakeholders
- Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin (spoken and written)
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.
Recruitment Assessments
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