Toa Payoh - Portfolio Manager, Derivatives (AIA Investment Management)

Join us as Portfolio Manager, Derivatives at AIA Investment Management!

You will also be designing, modelling, structuring and advising on derivatives-based strategies and solutions for Group functions and AIA BUs.

Derivatives Portfolio Management:

• Handle linear and non-linear derivatives portfolios, across asset classes, in line with portfolio mandates benchmarks and key risk metrics, following a rigorous investment process based on solid understanding of macro and markets environments, and a disciplined risk management approach.
• Lead efficiently scarce resources (cash, collateral, risk limits) ancillary to derivatives portfolios.

Derivatives Solutions:

• Drive the implementation of the platform to structure and handle derivatives-centric investment-linked insurance products.
• Provide expert advice to AIA BUs and Group functions to design and optimize their derivatives strategies, based on a deep understanding of relative economic value, liquidity, and geographical nuances between different derivatives instruments.
• Help to define, model and quantify the objectives of such derivative strategies and suggest and similarly quantify alternatives for decision makers on such trades.

Derivatives Infrastructure:

• Support the rollout of new Investment and Derivatives Management systems.
• Support the development of the Derivatives and collateral infrastructure, in particular front-office analytics and portfolio management tools

What you will need:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience of designing and handling linear and non-linear Derivatives portfolios (cross-asset preferred), preferably in an asset management company.
• Excellent expertise and technical expertise in all aspects of derivatives.
• Experience in structuring investment-linked insurance products, and handling associated portfolios.
• Experience of working with LDI strategies and ALM/Actuarial sciences knowledge preferred.
• Experience in collateral management and optimization, and funding markets (repo, securities lending) a plus.
• Experience in developing Derivatives analytics and experience with Blackrock Aladdin system preferred.
• Good interpersonal skills: credible communicator with good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good Teammate and able to communicate in a diverse culture environment.
• Intellectually curious, details oriented, analytical problem solver, proactive and delivery focused. Trustworthy and reliable.
• CFMAS (Modules 3, 5, 6, 6A) preferred.

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