Director, Portfolio Manager
About this role
JOB SUMMARY / INTRODUCTION
Develop, manage, and optimize money market, smart cash, and High-Quality Liquid Asset (HQLA) portfolios aligned with client mandates, liquidity objectives, and internal investment views. Translate strategic and tactical views into actionable portfolio positioning across short-duration fixed income, cash and liquidity instruments, calibrated to HQLA eligibility, LCR, RWA, duration and risk constraints. Collaborate with research, treasury, and risk teams to refine relative value and security selection and ensure alignment between top-down and bottom-up investment processes. Execute portfolio decisions while adhering to investment guidelines, risk parameters, and performance targets, operating within an augmented operating model in which FAB retains full ownership of assets, operations, and regulatory accountability.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Construct and manage money market, smart cash and HQLA portfolios, leading on relative value and allocation decisions across short-duration and liquidity instruments
- Manage several liquidity and short-duration strategies with different risk/return, duration and liquidity mandates
- Conduct fixed income and money market research with an emphasis on issuer, security and relative value selection (govies, SSA, GSE, repo/reverse repo and swaps)
- Develop risk management strategies to protect HQLA eligibility, LCR/RWA objectives and client assets, ensuring portfolio stability and compliance
- Assess investment performance and report to findings to the Chief Investment Officer
- Perform financial forecasting to run scenario analysis and stress testing
- Money market & short-duration investment strategy
- Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM)
- HQLA / LCR / RWA optimisation & cash and collateral management
- Portfolio strategy development
- Portfolio risk management & compliance
- Investment performance
REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep knowledge of money markets, short-duration fixed income and liquidity instruments (govies, SSA, GSE, repo/reverse repo, interest rate swaps) and of HQLA, LCR, NSFR and RWA frameworks to drive portfolio performance and navigate markets
- Ability to develop and implement investment strategies that align with the firm’s goals and targets
- Strong ability to analyze investment performance and trends
Familiarity with portfolio management and trading tools (e.g., SimCorp, Bloomberg, BlackRock Aladdin, Markit) and experience operating within an outsourced / augmented mandate model with independent trade validation, reconciliation and collateral controls
Company at a glance
FAB, the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions offers an extensive range of tailor-made solutions, and products and services, to provide a customised banking experience. Through its strategic offerings, it looks to meet the banking needs of customers across the world via its market-leading Corporate and Investment Banking and Personal Banking franchises.
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, in Khalifa Business Park, the bank’s international network spans over 19 countries, across the world, providing the global relationships, expertise and financial strength to support local, regional and international businesses seeking to do business at home and abroad. In line with its commitment to put customers first, to Grow Stronger, FAB will continually invest in people and technology to create the most customer-friendly banking experience and will support the growth ambitions of its stakeholders across the global network in which the bank operates.
To empower its customers and clients to Grow Stronger, FAB is initiating a powerful movement, which goes beyond banking. The Grow Stronger movement represents the bank’s promise to support its stakeholders’ goals and growth ambitions, providing ideas, tools and expertise to help them become stronger, today and in the future. Through a strong, diversified balance sheet, leading efficiency and a solid corporate governance structure in place, FAB is set to drive growth forward.
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- Learning And Development Initiatives
- Training
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