Investment Advisor
Standard Chartered
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work to achieve business strategy and financial budget in terms of revenue targets, AUM growth and profitability.
- Work to ideate and communicate house views on market outlook and actionable ideas and product solutions.
- Work with WM Investment Products as part of Country Advisory Council to provide monthly actionable ideas and product solutions.
- Ensure daily morning huddle at branches to brief current market direction and investment solutions.
- Ensure smooth management of weekly investment seminars at branches by utilizing Group IASG and in-country expertise.
- Manage clients’ investment through frequent and consistent portfolio review and advice.
- Ensure proper and timely training for frontline prior to product / campaign launch.
- Work closely with distribution channels to provide coaching and improve frontline sales competency.
- Ensure all transactions follow all regulations and controls set by the Bank and external regulatory authorities; which includes but not limited to KYC, proper documentation of transactions, risk-profiling, pre-investment forms.
- Ensure periodic updates of new regulatory requirements and / or operating procedures to sales force.
- 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.
- Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association
- Relationship Managers, Sales Team Managers, Cluster heads, Product Managers, Head of Investment Advisory and Strategy, Head of Managed Investments, External partners
- IPCC, FIMM, relevant Banca and takaful licenses
- CFA / CFP preferred
- Portfolio Theory
- Asset Allocation
- Market Knowledge (SIF)
- Products and Processes
- 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
- Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
- Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off including annual, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.