Senior Investments Learning Consultant

At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals.

The Franklin Templeton Academy, a global business unit of Franklin Templeton Investments, seeks an elite, highly engaging presenter and extremely credible professional with deep investments industry knowledge to join us as a Senior Investments Learning Consultant in our Singapore office. Your principal mission is to deliver compelling, timely, relevant knowledge to financial professionals and investors as a value-added service to our partners.

The Senior Investments Learning Consultant will work closely with internal business units to design, update and deliver training modules for our customers who consist of bankers/financial professionals, institutional clients and sometimes for end investors.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of this position?

• Providing engaging and interactive training sessions to investments industry professionals with varying levels of industry knowledge. Educate clients on topics spanning markets knowledge, investment concepts, industry practices, and relevant professional development skill courses, primarily in English.
• Writing content for and developing investment training materials.
• Updating, enhancing and translating existing investment education materials to be used in:
• Existing instructor-led course material, including virtual classroom sessions
• In-person classroom sessions
• Digital wealth management platforms or social media
• Responding to group and individual needs and managing classroom logistics
• Contributing to project team meetings and supporting training deliverables

What qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?

• University degree and relevant work experience in Business or Education. Candidates with advanced qualifications such as M.B.A or Ph.D. in Finance and Economics are a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of teaching or professional training experience
• Exemplary presentation and group facilitation skills
• Exceptional and highly engaging presentation ability
• Knowledge and interest in global financial markets
• Highly creative in presenting complex financial information
• Knowledge of digital wealth management platforms and social media in Asia a plus
• A commitment to be a consistent and reliable team member who delivers quality results and meets deadlines in a fast-paced team environment
• Fundamental competence with basic business tools; the Microsoft Office suite – PowerPoint in particular
• Experience using a range of technologies for training and effective communications, including mobile communication software, videoconference and web-based systems
• Self-driven with a positive attitude and strong ability to work independently and autonomously
• Fluency in English is required. Other regional languages, like Mandarin or Thai, a plus.
• Willingness to travel across Asia (up to 40% of the time) to conduct trainings where needed, with possibility to travel intercontinentally

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees.