Associate Director, Transaction Management Group

We are seeking an Associate Director – Transaction Management Group (TMG) to play a key role in closing new agency deals and managing complex loan documentation. This position will see you working directly with institutional investors, banks, governments, and multinational corporations, providing best-in-class documentation support across syndicated lending and agency services. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate across regions, advise on high-profile transactions, and help shape documentation standards that drive operational excellence, compliance, and client success.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, negotiate, and finalise loan agreements, fee letters, security documents, and ancillary documentation.
• Provide expert documentation support across multiple products, including trade finance, structured finance, commodities, shipping, aircraft, and project & export finance.
• Liaise with origination teams, legal counsel, and clients to ensure documentation reflects business and compliance needs.
• Ensure all documents meet internal risk frameworks, market standards, and agency protection provisions.
• Manage security trustee roles, including reviewing security releases, intercreditor arrangements, and enforcement.
• Proactively resolve client documentation issues, amendments, or waivers, ensuring timely and compliant outcomes.
• Lead and host client or lender meetings related to waivers, defaults, or restructuring.
• Support distressed client situations by managing documentation for workouts, restructurings, or enforcement actions.
• Prepare deal summaries, workflows, and handovers for administration teams, highlighting key risks and obligations.
• Contribute to product development, market training, and knowledge-sharing to strengthen team expertise.
• Coach and mentor colleagues to build documentation knowledge across the function.

Skills

• Strong expertise in LMA legal documentation, including facility and security agreements.
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage complex multi-stakeholder discussions.
• Solid understanding of syndicated lending, agency services, and transaction structures.
• Strong communication skills, able to engage effectively with internal stakeholders and external counsel.
• Commercially astute, with the ability to balance client needs and risk management.
• Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in loan documentation and transaction management.
• Prior experience reviewing and negotiating LMA standard documentation is essential.
• Proven ability to manage both internal and external stakeholders, including legal counsel.
• Degree in law, finance, or a related field preferred (professional qualifications an advantage).

About Standard Chartered

We are an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we have 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 are 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 will see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

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.