Executive Director, Clean Tech & Environment M&A Advisory

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

Join our Clean Tech & Environment (CTE) M&A Advisory team in London as an Executive Director, where you will be responsible for driving the origination and execution of strategic advisory mandates across the Power, Utilities, and Infrastructure sector, alongside an existing team.

In a fast-paced and collaborative environment, you will:

• Lead on Digital Infrastructure sector (extending to core infrastructure, energy transition, transport, and environmental services, also in the scope of the CTE team).
• Advise financial sponsors, infrastructure funds, utilities, developers, and strategic investors on M&A, capital raises, and strategic transactions in EMEA.
• Contribute directly to franchise growth, revenue generation and high-quality transaction delivery, while working closely with country, sector, and product partners across the Bank.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-growing team and would suit candidates exhibiting a solid track record of business development, client relationship management, and M&A advisory deal pedigree across the Power, Utilities & Infrastructure sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Originate M&A, strategic advisory, capital raising and joint venture opportunities across Digital Infrastructure, Power & Utilities, and broader Infrastructure sectors.
• Maintain senior client relationships with financial sponsors, infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, strategic corporates, developers, and operators.
• Prepare sector insights, pitch materials, and client dialogue to support business development and transaction origination.
• Lead client engagement from early-stage opportunity identification through mandate award and transaction completion.

Processes

• Lead end-to-end execution of M&A advisory mandates, including valuation, financial analysis, due diligence, process design, negotiations, and documentation.
• Ensure deal teams deliver high-quality materials, clear advice and timely execution against agreed client objectives.
• Coordinate internal approvals, conflicts, compliance, legal, risk and other governance processes relevant to advisory mandates.
• Manage external advisers and coordinate multidisciplinary workstreams across jurisdictions.

People & Talent

• Lead and supervise deal teams made up of Directors, Assistant Directors and Associates.
• Coach junior team members and support their technical, execution, and client-facing development.
• Set high standards for judgement, integrity, collaboration, execution discipline, and client service.

Skills and Experience

• Significant investment banking, corporate finance or strategic advisory experience, with a strong track record in Digital Infrastructure M&A or broader Infrastructure M&A.
• Ability and track record in the origination and execution of complex cross-border transactions.
• Strong senior client relationship skills and proven ability to build trust with boards, shareholders and senior executives.
• Deep understanding of European infrastructure markets, including investors, strategic players, valuation dynamics and transaction precedents.
• Strong financial analysis, valuation, negotiation, communication and project management skills.
• Ability to lead teams, manage multiple mandates and operate effectively in a fast-paced advisory environment.

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.