If you re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HongKong Shanghai Banking Corporation and discover how valued you ll be.
HongKong Shangai Banking Corporation is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 62 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Product Specialist
Principal responsibilities
- Manage the needs of 65+ business entities that make us approved funds and Exchange Trade Funds including Global Private Banking, Retail Wealth, Insurance and Hang Seng.
- Drive strategic priorities and commercialisation initiatives across funds business. Ensure the funds product offering is best-in-class and aligned views and the economic environment.
- Collaborate with investment due diligence organisational due diligence and asset manager relations team as well as external stakeholders in company local teams and with asset managers to identify and define product needs and bring to market.
- Work with business entities on requests for new fund coverage and build investment cases for new fund requests.
- Co-ordinate product-related activities and ensure fund launches and related initiatives are followed through to completion and appropriate reporting made to Group management as required.
- Assist with strategic growth aims including through the production of reports, presentations, and management of data to support strategic decision making.
- Assist with group financial planning through collaboration on individual market funds businesses and forecasts as well as assisting with the prioritisation of future capital investment to improve existing capability and build new technologies.
Requirements
- 3 years or more of prior experience in the Funds / Asset Management industry.
- Practical knowledge and experience of financial markets, the macroeconomic environment, risk management, regulations and their application to the fund market.
- Proactive, positive attitude and ability to multi-task especially under pressure to meet time sensitive deadlines.
- Demonstrable written and verbal communication skills.
- An analytical mindset and attention to detail, with strong numeracy skills and ability to process and summarise key information to inform strategic decision making.
- Team player, strong organizational and time management skills.
- Experience in Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint. Ability to quickly process information gathered into slide format for senior stakeholder engagement.
- Professional qualifications / certifications like Masters with Finance, Charted Financial Analyst or a desire to achieve these is a positive.