Job Summary

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Experienced and seasoned professional with investment banking background as well as significant exposure to venture capital and/or private equity sectors to be the deal captain to lead our fundraising and M&A efforts, manage investor relations, and drive growth for our innovative platform. As a key member of our team, you’ll be responsible for transaction execution, originating and managing relationships with investors, identifying new opportunities for venture growth and/ or monetization.

Business
•    Develop and execute a comprehensive fundraising and monetization plan, lead overall deal execution, be key contact for external advisors, review and sign off draft transactions. Liaison point with SCV Functions team, Accelerator team, and the Group’s Global Corporate Development team as interface with ventures/investors and SCB leadership.
•    Support the ventures and platform teams to drive growth and revenue expansion. Build and maintain relationships with strategic partners, financial investors, corporates and other industry leaders.

Processes
•    Ensure reporting analytics are regularly provided to Operating Members
•    External fundraising of early-stage ventures
•    Mergers or Acquisition of business entities for ventures
•    Monetization or divestiture of ventures
•    Sell down/ exit venture stakes via private or capital markets.
•    Divest platform business segment
•    Divest existing fund at platform

People & Talent
•    Mentor and manage a broader team of fundraising colleagues, providing guidance and support to build success across the function / SC Ventures.

Risk Management
•    Ensure risk assessment, through due diligence, developing a comprehensive execution plan.
•    Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. Your expertise will ensure successful deal execution, minimize potential risks, and protect our organization's interests

Governance
•    M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) governance responsibilities typically involve overseeing the entire M&A process to ensure that transactions are executed efficiently, effectively, and with minimal risk. Key responsibilities include:
•    Strategic oversight: Ensuring alignment with company strategy and objectives.
•    Deal evaluation: Assessing potential deals, including financial, operational, and cultural fit.
•    Due diligence: Overseeing the process to identify potential risks and liabilities.
•    Risk management: Identifying and mitigating potential risks, including financial, operational, and reputational risks.
•    Compliance: Ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, laws, and industry standards.
•    Stakeholder management: Communicating with stakeholders, including employees, customers, investors, and regulatory bodies.
•    Performance monitoring: Tracking deal performance, identifying areas for improvement, and adjusting as needed.
•    Governance structure: Establishing a clear governance structure for the merged entity.
•    Cultural alignment: Ensuring cultural alignment and effective leadership transition.

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
•    You will work closely with the Head Of Fundraising and M&A, the Operating Members, venture leads and board of directors.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Asset Allocation
•    Portfolio Theory
•    Products – Alternative Assets

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.