Job Summary

•    Lead a team of FX strategists to deliver high quality and timely ideas to the frontline and to clients on opportunities and risks in FX and commodity markets.  
•    Lead the FX discussions in the Global Investment Committee meetings, ensuring high quality input. 
•    Collaborate with different teams within the CIO to deliver high quality publications and presentation materials.
•    Be the face of our FX and commodity offering, both internally and with clients, elevating the Bank’s Wealth Solutions proposition through publications, media interviews, client presentations and social media engagement. 

Key Responsibilities

CIO Office/Wealth Solutions profile
•    Collaborate with the CIO of Fixed Income and FX and peers to promote the CIO Office capabilities across the Affluent spectrum, especially within the Private Bank. 
•    Define and deliver a refreshed FX strategy to improve our capabilities across the franchise, especially within the Private Bank
•    Develop a following within the Private Bank via presentation and client interactions. 

Global Investment Committee 
•    Lead the conversation on the FX market outlook, unearthing and sharing diverse perspectives without trying to convince different investment committee members of a certain view
•    Ask probing questions in FX and other areas to uncover different perspectives and help other GIC members to gain a better understanding of the views being presented 
•    Deliver alpha in your personal views. 

FX Output
•    Ensure high quality and timely trades/conviction calls on currency pairs and partner with the Capital Markets Product Solutions group on structured product ideas. 
•    Track and report the performance of our recommendations in a consistent manner. 
•    Deliver a consistent high quality of communication materials. 
•    Develop content that is easily accessible to the frontline and clients, especially within the Private Bank. 
•    Actively promote the CIO Office’s FX advisory offering to RMs and IAs in a consistent way

Cross-asset publications 
•    Ensure high quality and timely FX and Commodity input into our cross-asset publications. 
•    Provide feedback to other team members to improve the quality of the cross-asset sections of publications. 

Governance:
•    Ensure the FX Strategy teams are aware of and follows the highest level of governance standards and ethical behaviour. 

Regulatory and 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

•    Global, Fixed Income & FX, North Asia and AMEE CIOs to ensure the consistency of messaging across all publications 
•    Regional Private Bank Heads (GCNA, ASA and AMEE): To ensure the team’s/third party output is fit for purpose. 
•    Private Bank Market Heads to ensure we deliver our content to UHNW clients through meetings and presentations
•    Compliance & Risk Management Teams: Partnering with these teams to ensure that the DPM business adheres to regulatory requirements and risk management frameworks.

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the team
•    Stay updated on global market trends, regulatory changes, and investment opportunities that may impact the FX strategy function. 
•    Ensure any suggested changes to the FX Strategy offering are relevant for the business and integrated into digital platforms as appropriate. 

Our Ideal Candidate

•    10 years+ of FX experience, including a strong background in macroeconomics.

•    Strong knowledge of FX, market sentiment, risk management, and financial markets. 

•    Self-starter with a strong drive to shape and develop the FX function while maintaining excellent collaboration.

•    University degree in finance, economics, or related. CFA qualification is an advantage.

•    Ensure the FX Strategy teams are aware of and follows the highest level of governance standards and ethical behaviour. 

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 

•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Writing skills
•    Client Facing Experience
•    Multi Asset Investment
•    FX, Rates Strategy 
•    Macro
•    Leadership 

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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