Job Summary
The purpose of the role is to partner Relationship Managers and Product Partners to engage priority corporate clients on capital structure insights to further origination efforts. Scope of this engagement can include covering tactical positioning with debt investors to minimise cost of capital raise, funding and liquidity considerations and managing volatility through mitigating regional risk exposure and quantifying inefficiencies amongst others. This can be directly or in conjunction with the senior members within the Capital Structure & Rating Advisory (CSRA) team.
Strategy
The Associate Director is responsible for supporting the implementation of the Capital Structure & Rating Advisory team’s origination, coverage and execution strategy in the APAC region.
Business
• The CSRA team provides thought leadership, best practice insight, corporate finance and rating advice to corporate and FI clients. Content is driven by deep understanding of client needs, sector trends and market themes to help the origination efforts.
• Support seniors in identifying client’s financial needs and solutions
• Prepare under senior’s supervision client ready materials around capital structure optimisation, ratings, acquisition financing, working capital management, or other relevant corporate finance topics
• Support origination and execution of key rating advisory mandates
• Develop sector specific content focussed around topical financial and credit rating trends
• Stay abreast of news flow for clients, sectors and rating agencies methodologies
• Engage with peers in the bank to complete client’s presentations
• Assist seniors in the team in actively engaging with clients, establishing a role as a trusted partner / thought leader in respect of areas of team competence.
• Support seniors in the preparation of internal materials related to the team
• The coaching and support of others in the team, and beyond where appropriate
Processes
• Engagement tracker & pipeline file and CSRA client coverage list kept up to date
• Support with origination pipeline and client selection and report appropriately and timely to Regional Head
• Help to maintain ratings advisory pipeline and deal team
• Ensure Conflict of Interest register remains updated
Key Responsibilities
People & Talent
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values
Risk Management*
- Take the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational and ethical matters, not only responding to requests for advice, but where appropriate taking the initiative in volunteering advice the need for which may not have been appreciated.
Governance
- Maintain a current catalogue of work in progress and completed work, using team-agreed tools and approaches.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- Global Account Managers and Relationship Managers
- Product Partners - Global Credit Markets, Financial Markets, Transaction Banking
- Industries teams
- Economists
- Risk Officers External
- Corporate & Institutional clients
- Rating agencies
- Other conference and media providers
Our Ideal Candidate
- Previous experience of a similar role, in a leading commercial and/or investment banking environment. To include: experience of addressing capital structure and rating relevant topics with corporate clients from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint
- 5 + years of relevant experience and understanding of investment and commercial banking organisational design and a demonstrated ability to ‘navigate’ to achieve client delivery in a safe and sound manner
- Familiarity with rating agency methodologies. Prior experience in rating agencies considered a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to work across cultures and within a dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to appropriately ‘manage’ demands from peers and superiors
- Genuine team-based approach to making the organisation work for the business.
- Comfortable with an advisory/structuring role with significant client contact
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Origination GB – Business Markets
- Origination GB – Cross-Selling
- Origination GB – Financial Statement Analysis
- Origination GB – Knowledge of Customers
- Origination GB – Knowledge of Product Line
- Origination GB – Communicating Complex Concepts
- Origination GB – Understanding Customer Needs
- Origination GB – Analytical Thinking
- Sales – Client relationship management
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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