Manager, Funds Due Diligence

Job ID: 25258

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Private Banking & Wealth Management

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 4 Jun 2025

Job Summary

This part of the team primarily responsible for conducting due diligence on managed investments providers and products ranging from ETFs, mutual funds and alternative investments. The team's coverage is global, including both offshore and onshore products across Standard Chartered Bank's footprint.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy*

• Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role

Business*

• Lead team responsible for fund providers and fund products due diligence
• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates
• Contribute to the overall growth in funds AUM across the bank through MI solutions across both PvB and retail segments

Processes*

Funds/ ETF/ ILP due diligence

• Deliver high quality due diligence for Managed investment Providers new on-boarding.
• Perform Biennial provider reviews of Managed Investment Providers on timely manner.
• Deliver efficient and comprehensive due diligence for Managed Investment products.
• Perform Annual PRR/Performance review on Managed Investment products with accuracy and engage country MI teams for a timely completion of client notification and system update.
• Other governance related reports

Fund Select Support:

• Supporting and maintaining ongoing collaterals for recommended products.
• Offering support in terms of quantitative analysis

People & Talent*

• Lead team through example and build the appropriate culture and values.

Risk Management*

• Ensure all works to be processed and completed with full adherence to internally policies

Governance*

• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which we operate managed investment.
• Closely work with country Managed investment teams to ensure our works to fulfil the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

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*

• Country MI teams
• Country CMPS (for ETF)
• Country Banca (for ILP)
• WM CFCC team
• Portfolio Management Group (Credit Risk)
• WM COO team

• Fund management companies

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in the Fund Selection team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Skills and Experience

NA

Qualifications

1. Qualified CFA

2. Minimum 5-7 years experience

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.