Job Summary

•    Business expansion needs

Key Responsibilities

•    Coordinate the creation and maintenance of fixed income market, sector, and individual security views across global market.
•    Collaborate with colleagues across the CIO Office to formulate and articulate house views on fixed income and demonstrate the quality of these views through strong investment performances.
•    Support the communication of CIO Office views through high-quality written, verbal and multimedia communication channels for both internal and external audiences.
•    Act as a strong advocate of CIO Office fixed income views in engagements with internal and external clients.
•    Partner with key stakeholders, including relationship managers, investment advisors and product specialists to support client meetings and contribute to fixed income idea generation.
•    Provide guidance, mentorship and professional support to junior team members to foster their development and growth.
•    Ensure the maintenance of a high-quality governance framework underpinning the investment decision-making and view-formation process.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of experience seasoned Fixed Income Investment Strategist with experience in credit analysis and formulating investment recommendations across corporate and sovereign bond markets.
• They possess strong macroeconomic knowledge and a proven ability to develop market views covering both Asian and developed credit markets.
• Experience from buy side and private banks preferred.
• The individual should be an effective communicator, capable of articulating investment insights to internal stakeholders and clients through written and verbal channels.
• A collaborative mindset, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to mentor junior team members are essential.
• Business communication excellence is required.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Fixed Income Strategy & Credit Analysis
• Macroeconomic Research and Market View Formation
• Bond Valuation Methodologies and Investment Recommendations
• Asset Allocation and Portfolio Construction Knowledge
• Statistical Analysis and Investment Research Techniques
• Team Mentoring, Governance, and Investment Decision-Making Frameworks Support

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.

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