Associate Director, FX Advisory & Solution, Wealth Management

Job Summary

We are seeking an energetic and commercially minded FX professional with a winning mindset and a strong ambition to build a career in foreign exchange advisory and dealing. In this high-impact role, you will deliver timely market insights, tailored FX strategies, and high-quality execution services to Private Wealth and Private Banking clients. You will also collaborate with relationship managers, investment advisors, sales professionals, traders, analysts, strategists, and economists-giving you broad exposure across the investment community and the opportunity to help grow a strategically important business.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute long-term strategic and tactical plans to capture FX business opportunities across the Bank’s Hong Kong franchise.
• Grow the FX client base by delivering professional advisory, distribution, and execution services to Private Banking clients and Relationship Managers.
• Provide timely market updates, actionable FX insights, and tailored investment or trading strategies to clients and key internal stakeholders, including Relationship Managers, Investment Advisors, and DAC.
• Drive achievement of CMPS FX Hong Kong revenue targets through proactive client engagement, product advisory, and execution support.
• Build trusted partnerships with Front Office teams, Relationship Managers, Investment Advisors, DAC, and other key business partners.
• Lead FX product ideation, structuring, feature enhancement, service improvement, and operational upgrade initiatives to strengthen the client proposition and product competitiveness.
• Monitor business performance, competitor activity, and key performance indicators to identify growth opportunities and recommend timely actions.
• Ensure all FX advisory and execution activities comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, control standards, and best execution principles.

Ideal candidate

• A university degree; professional qualifications such as CFA, FRM, or CPA would be an advantage.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience in financial markets, sales, advisory, or dealing; hands-on FX dealing experience is preferred.
• Strong understanding of the wealth management industry, gained within Private Banking or Retail Banking.
• Sound knowledge of FX markets, investment products, client advisory, and execution practices.
• Strong commercial awareness, relationship-management skills, and the ability to translate market developments into relevant client opportunities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluency in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Skills and Experience

• FX advisory, dealing, and execution
• Portfolio theory and asset allocation
• Investment products, processes, and structuring
• Relationship management and client engagement
• Retail and Private Banking credit risk
• Regulatory frameworks and requirements, including SIF
• Strong computer skills; knowledge of Excel macros would be an advantage

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.