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Requisition Number: 54586
Job Location: Gandhinagar, IND
Global Grade: Band 6
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 04/08/2026
Posting End Date: 18/08/2026
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Job Summary
- The Principal Officer (PO) serves as the key regulatory and governance leader for the AIF at GIFT City. The role is to ensure that all the activities of the FME, but not limited to fund management, risk management and compliance, are in accordance with the provisions of these IFSCA, SEBI regulations, and various circulars and guidelines issued thereunder, with a strong focus on investor protection, ethical conduct and transparency. The PO acts as the primary interface with IFSCA and other authorities, ensuring the firm operates within the highest standards of compliance and governance while meeting investment objectives in the best interest of investors
Key Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities:Regulatory & Governance Compliance:
- Ensure full adherence to IFSCA (Fund Management) Regulations and internal compliance frameworks.
- Serve as the principal liaison with IFSCA; oversee all filings, reports, and disclosures.
- Report any non-compliance immediately and ensure corrective action.
- Review and strengthen internal controls and risk frameworks
Fund & Investment Oversight:
- Oversee portfolio and fund management in line with scheme objectives and investor interests.
- Monitor investment limits, valuation, and reporting accuracy.
- Ensure transparent and fair investor communication.
Investor Protection & Grievance Handling:
- Review investor complaints periodically and ensure prompt resolution.
- Maintain high standards of disclosure and client communication.
Ethics & Conduct:
- Uphold IFSCA’s Code of Conduct – integrity, honesty, fairness, and transparency.
- Avoid conflicts of interest and ensure all dealings are at arm’s length.
- Comply with internal policies on gifts, entertainment, and ethical behaviour.
Leadership & Coordination:
- Coordinate Compliance, Fund Management, Risk, and Operations for regulatory alignment.
- Present periodic compliance and governance updates to the Board.
- Foster a culture of ethics, discipline, and accountability.
Our commitments:
- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- We promote a healthy work-life balance and a supportive environment that values individual well-being.
- We offer flexibility, empowering employees to manage their time effectively in line with personal and professional commitments.
- We provide excellent learning and growth opportunities, fostering continuous professional development.
- We uphold a strong value system built on integrity, respect, and accountability.
Required Skills
- High level of integrity, accountability, and professional ethics.
- Customer-centric mindset with a strong commitment to a long-term role.
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities efficiently within a lean team structure and take complete ownership of assigned deliverables.
- Sound understanding of securities market regulations and proven ability to implement compliance frameworks in practice.
Skills and Experience
- Graduate/ Post Graduate, consistent academic career
- Extensive sales experience (2 to 5 years)
- Sales focused and highly target oriented
- Able to pick up new concepts quickly
- Able and excited about going out to meet new customers
- Competitive awareness & benchmarking
- Excellent communication, interpersonal & relationship building skills
- Banking knowledge
- Management Information Skills
- Good Interpersonal Skills
- Customer and Service Orientation
- Banking knowledge
- Management Information Skills
- Competitive awareness & benchmarking
- Coordinate customer events for the cluster along with the product team
- Aggressive Sales call plans to acquire large prospective customers through referrals.
Qualifications
- Professionally qualified individual and a member of ICAI / ICSI / ICMAI, or holder of a post-graduate qualification or diploma (minimum one year) in finance, law, accountancy, business management, commerce, economics, capital markets, banking, insurance, or actuarial science; or qualifications such as CFA, FRM, or any other certification approved by the Authority.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in securities or financial products in roles such as portfolio/fund manager, investment advisor, broker, investment banker, wealth manager, research analyst, credit rating analyst, market infrastructure professional, financial regulator, or consultant in areas like fund management, due diligence, or transaction advisory.
- Prior exposure to PMS/AIF operations is desirable.
- Strong understanding of IFSCA/SEBI frameworks and fund governance standards.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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