Job Summary

•    We are seeking a hard-working, detail-oriented Portfolio Analyst who thrives in a structured investment environment and is eager to develop into a strong Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM) professional. The ideal candidate is proactive, intellectually curious, and motivated to support the team across investment, client, and governance activities.

Portfolio Management Support

•    Assist in the day-to-day management of multi-asset portfolios (including implementation, onboarding, operational support).
•    Support Portfolio Managers with the evaluation of new investment opportunities and the selection of securities.
•    Prepare performance, attribution, and risk reports with a high degree of accuracy.

Sales & Marketing Support

•    Assist in preparing client materials, including portfolio reviews, investment commentary, and client pitchbooks.
•    Contribute to after-sales support, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of portfolio-related information.
•    Track and analyse flows across the different products managed by DPM team.

Product Management & Governance 

•    Participate in the business development and enhancement of the DPM product offering.
•    Conduct performance attribution analysis and provide insights on portfolio improvements.
•    Adhere to governance procedures, performing accurate risk oversight and compliance checks.
•    Support the preparation of materials for governance and investment committee meetings.

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.

Key stakeholders

•    Senior Portfolio Managers within DPM team
•    DPM Middle and Back-office teams
•    Advisory & Managed Investment Teams
•    Front Office (Relationship Managers, Investment Advisors)
•    Risk, Governance and Compliance functions

Skills and Experience

•    Portfolio Analytics 
•    Risk & Compliance Oversight 
•    Performance Attribution & Reporting 
•    Market & Economic Analysis
•    Data Handling & Automation (Excel, Bloomberg, VBA) 

Our Ideal Candidate

•    2 to 6 years of experience in an investment-related role within private banking, wealth management, or asset management.
•    Strong interest in portfolio management, performance analytics, and investment analysis.
•    Detail-oriented, diligent, and highly motivated to learn in a fast-paced and growing business.
•    Strong analytical skills, with an aptitude for automating workflows and handling quantitative tasks.
•    Strong governance orientation, with high accountability and attention to detail.
•    CFA designation or progress toward CFA preferred.

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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