AD or Director, Loan Syndicate, Africa

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure awareness and understanding of CIB's and Market's strategy and objectives globally as well as the specific objectives and strategic priorities of the Loan Syndicate and Syndicate & Portfolio Management business.
• Help deliver the Regions and the overall Global TPI budget.
• Develop relationships with the loan investor universe, in order to achieve primary and secondary distribution volume targets whilst maximizing skim income.
• Assist in reducing stick positions through sales and distribution across our footprints.
• Assist senior directors reviewing structure, timing, pricing to market, and executing the distribution strategies of primary syndicated loans.
• Independently lead syndicate and structuring thoughts alongside origination teams.
• Bookrunning of transactions whilst ensuring stakeholders are updated consistently on the primary syndication process.
• Assisting via bookrunning other regions' transactions whilst ensuring stakeholders are updated consistently on the primary syndication process.
• Distribution of secondary loans to bank and non-bank investors for the Bank alongside Portfolio Management.
• Providing loan market intelligence to product partners.
• Providing market intelligence to contribute to underwriting decisions and help in monitoring of underwriting risk.
• Provide syndication support to product partners on various transactions.
• Assist in providing information around Syndication strategy that is accurate and detailed for Underwriting Applications on a timely basis, according to the standard and format stipulated by Global Head, SPM.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of Secondary sales are inputted into the Deal ticket system.
• Ensure that sales are inputted into the deal ticket book.

Skills and Experience

• Professional experience in loan syndication, or loan origination closely involved with loan syndication, within an international financial institution.
• Proven experience in supporting/leading deal execution, loan distribution.
• Good understanding of credit risk, syndicate pricing and liquidity analysis.
• Proven experience working with institutional investors, banks, development finance institutions.
• Strong understanding of syndicated loan markets, documentation and distribution strategies.
• Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications - standard degree level education.

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.