Investment Editor

Job ID: 40011

Location: Mumbai, IN

Area of interest: Retail Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 15 Sept 2025

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
Responsible for the quality of written documents published by the CIO team. The person will ensure that all reports and communications published by the CIO team are written succinctly and persuasively with an aim to communicate complex investment ideas to non-institutional clients and general readers.**Business**
- Editorial responsibility for the quality of the CIO Office’s publications, including grammatical and visual uplifting, and to provide approval from the editorial perspective, prior to publication’s release
- editing and/or ghost writing of Op-eds, publications and social media posts
- To make the CIO office publications more accessible and digestible
- Collaborate with in-house asset class/product experts to edit and publish product-related content
- Communicate effectively technical financial terms in simplified layman terms for our variety of readers
- Work effectively under tight time pressure and keep up with developments in the financial industry
- Coach junior CIO team members in honing their writing skills

**Processes**
Responsible for editing and the subsequent workflow publishing and approval of CIO team publications (in English) within tight deadlines and meeting high editorial quality standards.
Any non-minor edits must be referred back to the author before publishing and approving in the workflow.**People & Talent**
Collaborate with senior CIO team members to ghost-write opinion columns on various investment topics which can be pitched to external media organisations if needed
Coach junior CIO team members in honing writing skills**Risk Management**
Holds strong understanding of communication guidelines to ensure risks involved with client-facing materials are adequately controlled and mitigated.**Governance**
Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations prescribed for CIO team publications.**Regulatory & 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**
- Asset class heads in CIO Office
- Chief Investment Officer
- Wealth Proposition, Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing, Content Management teams

**Other Responsibilities**
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Chief Investment Office; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures**Qualifications**
- Education-University graduate or equivalent
- Languages-English (fluent)

**Skills and Experience**
- English language writing
- English language editing
- Understanding of financial markets
- Coaching skills

**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