Executive Director

Job description / Role

Job summary

Drive the macro sales strategy for UAE institutional clients and leverage the brand of SCB in the GCC region to support development of a new market hub for global hedge fund clients.

Develop and maintain a strong partnership with trading, structuring, research, corporate & institutional coverage, transaction banking and other key stakeholders across the bank.

Leverage existing relationships and knowledge of multimanager hedge fund industry to drive production across FXO/FXC/IRD and local currency bond markets across all regions.

Key responsibilities

• Appropriately deliver SCBs capabilities to clients through face-to-face meetings, conferences, and calls to determine financial market needs, as applicable.
• Serve as SCB ambassador to growing multimanager community in UAE and drive marketing efforts to that effect.
• Leverage existing hedge fund relationships and facility built through experience to build a new client community and bind it effectively to the SCB brand.
• Deepen investor relationships and improve dialogue around market ideas with key clients through increased client contact.
• Identify and cultivate prospective accounts with the goal of growing the FX, interest rate and credit business.
• Provide product solutions in FX, rates, or credit, based on individual knowledge and competency.
• Emphasis on cross asset and cross border collaboration in order to maximize client service and returns and ensure footprint product is delivered into UAE based clients.
• Stretch target for core clients with close coordination.
• Awareness and understanding of the groupu2019s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

• Manage an account list to a minimum total income.
• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the group operates.
• Obtain introductions to prospective customers and make a persuasive business case for the use of SCB products and services in preference to current sources, leveraging existing relationships.
• Establish and maintain high level contacts with current and target customers through sales calls, entertainment and visits, in order to develop relationships and gain insight into their future plans and needs.
• Provide seamless backup for colleagues when they are unavailable to deal with their clients.
• Learn all applicable booking and risk systems and maintain excellent attention to detail.
• Each FM salesperson is responsible for ensuring that a transaction is appropriate for the client.

• Monitor the utilization of each customers trading limits with SCB, obtain specific approval for any excess likely to arise as a result of a particular transaction and make an appropriate recommendation to CIB where a higher limit may lead to additional profitable business.
• Adherence to all group policies and relevant legislation covering credit, operational, reputational risk among others.
• Commitment to group code of conduct.
• Timely completion of all e-learning, attestations and requests for information.

• Understand and comply with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws and regulations, including those governing anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions; the groupu2019s policies and procedures; and the group code of conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters.

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the groupu2019s 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.
• Assist the investor sales team to achieve the outcomes set out in the banku2019s conduct principles: fair outcomes for clients; effective operation of financial markets; financial crime prevention; the right environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Institutional & corporate clients
• Banking and product partners across the bank
• FMATT
• Regional head of financial markets
• Product management teams
• Structuring management teams
• Partner FM regional heads
• Trading heads
• Technology, finance, control and risk functions
• Regulators

Other responsibilities

• Demonstrate Here for Good and the groupu2019s brand and values in daily behaviour.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under group, country, business or functional policies and procedures.
• Train and develop backup for the top accounts you cover, ensuring they provide similar market color and a similar level of service.
• Designate backup, by name, in away notes for top 10 accounts.

Our ideal candidate

• Cross selling
• Customer behavior and preferences
• Interest rate risk management
• Investment banking services
• Investment consulting
• Loan origination
• Market risk
• Prospecting
• Sales proposal and presentation
• Securities laws and regulations (SLR)
• Foreign exchange

About Standard Chartered

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Job Function: Finance, Business Analysis & Consulting

Company Industry: Marketing, Advertising & PR