Executive Manager - Corporate Credit - Fixed Income Investments

About the role
Embark on a journey where your unique contributions are celebrated and your professional growth is embraced. In this position, you will manage and actively execute a corporate credit investment mandate by analyzing and positioning fixed income exposures across diversified markets. You will balance risk and return considerations while overseeing portfolio construction and execution, monitoring macroeconomic, geopolitical, and market risks, and optimizing capital, liquidity, and risk-weighted asset utilization to support the company's risk appetite, investment objectives, and medium-term financial performance.

About the business area
Treasury & Investments Group
The Treasury group offers a diverse range of conventional and Islamic banking solutions and is responsible for the Group’s funding, investments, and centralized risk management activities. This includes managing the company’s borrowings, issuance of debt securities, and using derivatives to mitigate financial risk while investing in various instruments, including green bonds, short-term placements, and corporate and sovereign debt securities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and actively execute a corporate credit investment portfolio by developing, implementing, and refining portfolio strategies across developed and emerging markets, informed by issuer fundamentals, relative value analysis, and prevailing market conditions.
• Position exposures across capital structures, tenors, and currencies, actively rebalancing holdings in response to changing risk, liquidity, and return dynamics while ensuring portfolio construction remains aligned to the company’s risk appetite, delegated authorities, and investment objectives.
• Continuously assess portfolio composition to optimize liquidity, capital deployment, and risk-weighted asset utilization, ensuring sustainable performance outcomes and resilience across market cycles.
• Devise and implement corporate credit strategies that maintain adequate portfolio liquidity while supporting benchmark and budget performance objectives through effective use of market intelligence, counterparty insights, and relative value opportunities.
• Actively manage portfolio growth within approved limits by balancing return generation with regulatory, capital, and liquidity constraints, ensuring compliance with applicable requirements and internal policies.
• Identify, structure, and seek approval for new market, product, or issuer opportunities, overseeing their implementation to enhance portfolio performance, capital efficiency, and the robustness of the investment platform.
• Oversee portfolio construction and execution by determining appropriate position sizing, diversification parameters, issuer and sector allocations, and liquidity profiles, ensuring consistency with approved mandates and risk limits.
• Execute and supervise primary and secondary market transactions to achieve best execution outcomes, taking into account pricing, market depth, timing, and transaction costs.
• Manage portfolio rebalancing and trade lifecycle activities in a disciplined manner to support efficient implementation, effective liquidity management, and alignment with portfolio objectives under varying market conditions.
• Monitor credit, market, and liquidity risks by assessing geopolitical, economic, and market developments and their potential impact on corporate credit exposures.
• Review issuer performance, ratings movements, spread behavior, stress scenarios, and portfolio attribution, escalating material risks and recommending mitigating actions to ensure alignment with approved risk appetite, governance standards, and long-term investment objectives.
• Engage with external stakeholders including market counterparties, issuers, and interdealer brokers to source investment opportunities, manage positions, and support effective liquidity and risk positioning.
• Act as a subject matter expert and primary contact point for corporate credit assets and balance sheet-related transactions, facilitating structured internal and external dialogue on market, liquidity, and risk considerations.
• Analyze financial, market, and trading data to identify trends, emerging risks, and investment opportunities across corporate credit markets.
• Assess the impact of these insights on portfolio performance, liquidity, and capital efficiency, and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders to support portfolio positioning, risk management actions, and strategic planning.
• Ensure all investment activities, recommendations, and execution decisions comply with internal policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain appropriate documentation, approvals, and audit readiness to safeguard the company and uphold strong investment governance standards.
• Contribute to the preparation of the business area’s budget and manage and monitor financial performance against the budget, identifying and rectifying unsatisfactory performance promptly and capitalizing on potential performance improvement opportunities.

Job Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in Corporate Credit or Fixed Income portfolios, with a strong understanding of market dynamics, trading behavior, and relevant regulations across developed and emerging markets.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• CFA, FRM, or equivalent preferred.
• Expertise in corporate credit analysis, fixed income markets and instruments, financial statement analysis, portfolio construction and risk management, interest rate and spread risk awareness, liquidity and capital management, investment governance and controls, stakeholder communication, and collaboration.

What we offer

• Competitive Salary: A competitive market salary along with eligibility for participation in rewarding variable pay plans.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Includes market-leading medical insurance, group life and personal accident insurance, paid leave and leave airfare, employee preferential rates on loans and finance facilities, staff discounts and offers, and children’s education assistance (for certain job levels).
• Flexible and Remote Working Options: Flexible working arrangements, subject to eligibility and job requirements, to promote work-life balance.
• Learning and Development Opportunities: A variety of exciting learning opportunities, including structured instructor-led courses, a comprehensive e-Learning catalog, on-the-job training, and professional development programs, all aimed at facilitating continuous learning and personal development.

At the company, we are dedicated to creating a respectful, caring, and disciplined work environment that aligns with your career ambitions.