Job Summary

The Structured Solutions Development team (SSD) is a team within the TB Trade and Working Capital, which is responsible for origination, negotiation and structuring of bespoke or Structured trade finance solutions to meet our client needs. This team drives Industry sector specialisation for Trade and Working capital and help SC retain and grow wallet share.
Consulting with client, industry thought leadership and specialist knowledge of solutions is the way the team members drive origination and then lead with structuring and negotiation of solutions. 
As a lead for industry strategy, you will be responsible to help develop the strategy and commercialisation plan in Trade and Working Capital for the target industry sectors.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Work with the Global Head STS and the Global Industry sector leads to develop and detail the industry drivers, nuances and strategy for trade and working capital across all the target sectors.
• Develop a plan for successful execution of the strategy in the regions.
• Work on mapping the horizontal and vertical ecosystems of industry segments and subsegments.

Business
Solutions Development and Delivery

• Based on the broader understanding of industry and solution, identify opportunities or situations within an industry or client.
• Work with the global industry leads to provide inputs into the product managers on key requirements to be developed or deviations which are BAU and don’t need exception approvals
• Look at forward looking solutions and work on thought leadership across the different sectors

Financial Management – Product P/L Management

• Help to deliver budget of the various sectors  by working with the global industry leads:
• Revenue (existing and new revenue streams) [FY 2026 $  M]
• Replication of solutions across clients in the sector [ nos ]
• Develop industry plans for the sectors and sub sectors
• Develop a marketing and commercialisation plan and execute these in different regions

Risk Management
•    To be able to articulate to the client, risk and other relevant teams on how a proposed solutions meets client needs, enable it to be more efficient, enable it to grow and scale its business, mitigate its risks and how it helps in a wider investor participation for a financing where required.
•    Ensures adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations

Regulatory and 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.
•    Responsible to meet the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
SSD Regional Leads / Global Industry lead, Relationship managers and TB sales teams and their country and regional heads, Trade/Cash Product Cluster Head, CCO/SCO Risk, Heads of Legal and CFCC.
Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values.; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedure

Qualifications

Core Credit and Risk Management Certification completed or to be completed within 12 months of joining the team.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 6+ years of experience of working in banks in frontline role in Corporate and investment banking and thereby understand industry nuances
• Have a strategic mindset and worked in strategy roles in banks or consulting firm
• Have worked across multiple regions and with large clients in origination and/or relationship management capacity.
• Has ability to create high quality presentation to communicate themes and key parts of a topic
• Has data analytics ability and project management skills
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders and communicate effectively
• Understands nuances of working with third party platforms/fintech
• Strong risk analysis skills
• Articulation and brevity while knowing the details is a key
  

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Consulting Proposals
• Knowledge of Product Line
• Legal Analysis
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Credit Analysis and Verification
• International Trade
• Industry knowledge 

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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