VP Investment Communications - Personal Financial Service
VP Investment Communications - Personal Financial Service
Category | Back Office / Operations | Salary | - |
Work Type | Permanent | Date | 2008-05-09 |
Location | Tokyo | Ref.# | HTO18851 |
Company Description
*This firm is active throughout the UK and Europe, North and South America, Hong Kong and the Pacific Rim, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa
*All told, this major player in the financial world has more than 9,800 offices in nearly 80 countries, providing consumer and commercial banking services, credit cards, asset management, private banking, securities trading, insurance, and leasing
Responsibilities
*To collect, research, and prepare investment communications contents in a timely manner through printed material and staff briefing, with the objective of enhancing frontline sales effectiveness and professionalism, maximizing sales opportunities, and enhancing service quality to our customers
*To provide existing and potential PFS customers with timely, relevant, and useful information on the market and on the firm PFS' wealth management products and services through printed material and dedicated consultation system tool
*To leverage on standard regional research publications within PFS and enrich them with extra local market information and views
*To liaise within PFS for publication of investment communication materials, manage reference portfolio mixes, and to lead the process of identifying relevant products for each research view
*To work with PFS investment communications counterparts in the region as well as within Japan on sharing of best practices in investment communications
Requirements
*Ability to originate research and views in a timely manner by leveraging on existing materials and researching on available market information
*Ability to write Japanese content in a concise and simple manner
*Ability to translate material
*University degree with a minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience in the financial services industry
*Previous experience in a research and editorial role covering investment markets and FX markets highly desirable
*Has worked with English research publications and able to localize materials into Japanese
*Previous experience in retail banking and understand of retail wealth management products and FX products is a plus
*Understanding of the full range of wealth management products and the role they play in customer's portfolio (unit trust, structured deposits, foreign currency deposits) is a plus
*Able to work under pressure and deliver content in a timely manner, as the time window available to deliver a piece of research may be limited
*Detail oriented and organized to ensure research produced is of a high quality
*Flexible and resourceful in order to be able to originate research through leveraging of existing research publications
Additional Notes
Remuneration:
Negotiable
