Key Responsibilities

The role holder’s primary responsibility is to contribute to the China macro strategy team’s research coverage and report production on the China FX market and work closely with internal stakeholders (including Sales, Trading, CIB Relationship Managers, Capital Markets, Transaction Banking and China opening team) to provide high quality services to the Bank’s clients globally.

Strategy/Business

•    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
•    Lead the coverage of Taiwan exchange rate and interest rate markets, 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
•    Facilitate the coverage of China fixed income markets, including cash bonds, IRS ,and other derivatives
•    Contribute to Greater China strategy reports, and other joint reports with broader teams
•    Maintain and update models related to Taiwan and mainland China market’s FX and interest rate markets

Processes

•    Ensure adherence to all internal and external regulations
•    Ensure compliance with procedures and controls as a result of changes in products, systems, policy or regulations

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.  

Key stakeholders
Internal
•    Markets Sales and Trading
•    CIB Relationship managers
•    Legal and Compliance
•    Transaction Banking
•    Capital Markets
•    Corporate and Public Affairs
•    Support functions incl. Operations, Finance and Technology

External
•    All key clients and potential new clients

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Global Research team. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

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 Mandarin

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.