Product Manager, Equities

Job Summary

Product and asset class owner for Equities and its online trading platform in country. Responsibilities include driving of the country product strategy and proposition to meet revenue targets, ensuring for a differentiated trading platform, related service and project deliveries, oversight of governance and processes matters.

Key Responsibilities

Drive Business Performance
•    To drive Equities (Online Trading) revenue and AUM growth to meet business targets, including new business and strategic initiatives.
•    Provide regular and timely product/platform updates to clients and frontline teams (RMs / call-centre) where required, including corporate action matters.
•    Work closely with cross functional counterparts across products, from governance, process, L&C, operations and technology to ensure for a robust platform.
•    To be responsible for the innovation and delivery of new products, platform capabilities and campaign/promotion ideas.
•    Utilise analytics to support key business decisions with value added strategic and tactical analytics, together with ongoing monitoring of the business line and identify areas of opportunities and growth.
•    To support and partner with operations to ensure the smooth flow of the trading processes with minimal errors, including platform settlement and corporate action matters
•    Collaborate with various internal Stakeholders (Group/country CMPS, Operations, Client Experience, Call-centre, Investment Advisory and Strategy, Asset Allocation teams and Investment Advisors, Wealth Client Engagement, Marketing) to provide quality trading platform.
•    Oversee the timely and on-time delivery of strategic projects and platform enhancements, with strong vendor and technology project team management.

Governance and Risk Management
•    Assist the team to ensure that Equities product governance matters are kept up to date and in accordance with internal and external governance standards and regulatory requirements, including Country Addendum (CAs) for the product line.
•    Ensure adequate and appropriate processes are in compliance with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those of Compliance, Technology and Operations, Finance.

•    To monitor and grow the portfolio for Equities in a stable and diversified manner.
•    To develop enhanced platform tools and capabilities, ensure training and improve systems to ensure the strong and stable growth of the equities product line.
•    Partner with Operations and technology teams to ensure that processes on trading, settlements and corporate actions activities are robust to ensure that client experience is maintained.
•    Maintain awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory obligations and requirements in-country and expectations relevant to the role.

Key Stakeholders
•    County and Group Wealth Teams
•    Wealth Client Engagement Teams
•    Wealth Operations Teams
•    Technology
•    Marketing
•    Legal & Compliance

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values across Consumer, Private and Business Banking (CPBB).

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.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Preferably a graduate degree with 3+ years of experience in financial markets and/or products.
•    Strong Financial & Data analysis skills.
•    Experience in Retail or Consumer Banking segment with global markets knowledge is preferred.
•    Familiarity with current Fintech and investment capabilities will be an advantage.
•    Able to work independently and engage senior management in the Bank and collaborate across teams to drive business objectives and implement the team’s long-term strategy.
•    Driven and results-oriented and able to adapt in a fast-paced environment.
•    Drive and lead regulatory change discussions which require the team’s engagement. Participate in Audits, manage regulatory incidents and communications on product and drive the process, product and system changes to reduce regulatory breaches.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Independent
•    Investment Products Knowledge
•    Project coordination
•    Planning skills
•    Fast learner

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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