Associate Director, Development & Agency Finance

Join Standard Chartered as an Associate Director in Development & Agency Finance, based in London with a hybrid working model. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to collaborate on structuring and executing development finance and specialized agency finance transactions, playing a vital part in supporting sustainable economic growth globally. You will engage with multiple stakeholders, including clients, financial institutions, and internal teams, contributing your expertise throughout the transaction lifecycle - from initial origination to closing. Your role is central to delivering innovative financing solutions that address complex challenges in development and infrastructure projects. The position demands analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and exceptional communication skills to prepare compelling presentations and financial models. You will thrive in a dynamic environment that values collaboration, diversity, and inclusion, building relationships that foster trust and deliver lasting impact. Standard Chartered encourages continuous professional growth, offering a platform to enhance your technical prowess and leadership skills while contributing to initiatives that align with our commitment to responsible banking and positive community impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end origination, structuring, and execution of Development and Agency Finance transactions, ensuring comprehensive due diligence, document drafting, and adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Conduct detailed financial and risk analyses utilizing sophisticated methodologies tailored to evaluate the borrower's profile and transaction structure, ensuring robust risk management.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive financial models to project performance across varying operational scenarios, assessing implications of diverse capital structures and financial products.
• Craft insightful presentation materials for client engagements, encompassing strategic finance alternatives, market activities, and corporate finance advisories.
• Continuously monitor client and target company developments to remain informed and responsive to market shifts and opportunities.
• Drive in-depth research and financial analysis of relevant industries and markets, integrating various information sources to support decision-making.
• Coordinate seamlessly with cross-functional deal teams across Standard Chartered to align efforts and optimize transaction outcomes.
• Manage daily project execution activities, ensuring timelines, quality standards, and compliance obligations are met or exceeded.
• Successfully complete all regulatory examinations and internal approvals required for transactions, including working with platforms such as WorkBench, BCA, and G/RCAF.
• Undertake relevant Return on Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) assessments to ensure profitable and compliant transaction structuring.
• Assist in drafting and reviewing transaction documentation, letters of interest, and other contractual materials critical to deal closure and post-execution monitoring.
• Ensure unwavering compliance with Standard Chartered's internal policies, industry regulations, and business line best practices throughout all stages of transaction management.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience in supporting the origination and structuring of long-term loans within international banking.
• Strong understanding of project finance, acquisition finance, export credit agency mechanisms, infrastructure financing, and development bank programs is highly preferred.
• A strong academic record evidencing motivation and the ability to undertake complex analytical tasks.
• Excellent analytical skills, with proficiency in corporate finance principles and a creative approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to perform effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, fostering collaboration and shared success.
• Excellent attention to detail combined with a strong work ethic and a commitment to achieving excellence in deliverables.
• Robust numerical capability and the capacity to perform accurately under tight deadlines.
• A track record of dependability and contribution within team environments, showing adaptability and resilience.

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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