ED, Market Insights & Strategy
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About the Role
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is seeking an experienced Executive Director to join the Market Insights & Strategy team within Global Markets. The role involves producing fixed income research, analyzing GCC markets, and providing insights to internal stakeholders and clients.
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Responsibilities
- Be a key, research producing member of the Market Insights & Strategy team within the Global Markets division
- Provide internal stakeholders, senior management, and clients with regular, timely and value accretive insights and analysis
- Ownership and primary responsibility for compiling and publishing periodic Fixed Income research reports focusing on GCC fixed income market
- Analyze new issues (sukuks & bonds) in the GCC fixed income market, analyzing issuer/fundamental risk and proactively provide views on pricing and risk reward
- Monitor primary and secondary fixed income market in the GCC and border EM to identify trends and opportunities
- Keep a close watch on broader macro and credit events/data for maintaining house view on markets
- Support other analysts within the Market Insights team with their publications and daily workflow
- Training/mentoring junior analysts
- Work very closely with the senior leadership team of the bank's Global Markets division for its strategy and transformation projects
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of experience required with in depth knowledge of regional geopolitics and Asian macroeconomics in global financial markets
- Extensive experience in writing client facing reports and presentations
- Proven track record in terms of knowledge and expertise on GCC risk markets and geopolitics / oil
- Creative thinker in terms of how to construct, narrate, and present key themes and topics
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Job Summary
- To be a key, research producing member of the Market Insights & Strategy team within the Global Markets division of FAB.
- Successful candidate will work as an integral part of the team in providing internal stakeholders, senior management, and clients with regular, timely and value accretive insights and analysis across the team’s stated areas of coverage.
- Recognized as an experienced member of the Global Markets team regarding GCC fixed income markets in particular.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the provision of regular, timely and relevant insights to Global Markets colleagues (traders & sales teams), broader CIB colleagues across the business units and RMs, senior leadership of the bank, and indeed clients through a variety of publications including but not limited to Morn
- Ownership and primary responsibility for compiling and publishing periodic Fixed Income research reports focusing on the development of GCC fixed income market.
- Responsible to look at new issues (sukuks & bonds) in the GCC fixed income market, analyzing issuer/fundamental risk and proactively provide views on the pricing and risk reward.
- Monitor primary and secondary fixed income market in the GCC and border EM to identify trends and opportunities.
- Keep a close watch on broader macro and credit events/data for maintaining house view on markets and keep stakeholders updated about global/local economy.
- Support other analysts within the Market Insights team with their publications and daily workflow.
- Be one of the main go to people within the team as such will be responsible for having the relevant up to date expertise and information to provide all stakeholders information and analysis that they may request.
- Plays a crucial role in enhancing the output of the Market Insights & Strategy team and increasing its visibility both internally and externally.
- A key producer of published reports which will be distributed directly to our clients and posted on the Market Insights section of the corporate website.
- Responsible for further developing the quality of reports published by the Market Insights team and enhancing the various distribution channels used to increase our reach.
- Training/mentoring junior analysts.
- Work very closely with the senior leadership team of the bank's Global Markets division for its strategy and transformation projects.
Experience Required
- Minimum of 10 years of experience required with in depth knowledge of regional geopolitics and Asian macroeconomics in global financial markets.
- Extensive experience in writing client facing reports and presentations
- Proven track record in terms of knowledge and expertise on GCC risk markets and geopolitics / oil
- Creative thinker in terms of how to construct, narrate, and present key themes and topics to key stakeholders, senior management, and clients.
About Us
- First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the largest bank in the UAE and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions.
- We offer a comprehensive range of personal and private banking services, including credit cards, Islamic banking, investments, loans, and mortgages.
Life at FAB
- Working at FAB means being part of a team of talented and passionate individuals with a shared vision to support the ambitions of our stakeholders to 'Grow Stronger.'
Career Development
- FAB offers unique career choices, a chance to innovate, craft solutions for the future, and express yourself in a performance based culture that will unleash the best in you.
Our Values
- At FAB, we place our customers at the core of our activities, live our values each day in every way, celebrate achievements, and empower each other to deliver leading solutions.
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