Job Summary

Primary Location for the role to be based from Paris. We will also consider Frankfurt.

As part of the Infrastructure & Development Finance Group’s European expansion strategy, this Executive Director role has been created to strengthen our local EU presence, enhance sector expertise, and ensure alignment with evolving EU regulatory requirements. Based in Paris, the Executive Director will play a pivotal leadership role in driving origination and execution of Project Finance transactions across France and Continental Europe. Reporting to the IDFG Europe Head, the role will focus on deepening client relationships, expanding market penetration, and delivering sustainable growth in line with Global Banking’s EU strategy.
This is a high-impact opportunity for a senior French-speaking banker with extensive EU Project Finance experience, strong knowledge of French corporates and institutional investors, and a sound understanding of EU banking regulations applicable to SCB Paris and SCB AG.

The Executive Director will lead strategic deal origination and execution for French clients and prospects, while contributing to broader EU market development. The role combines commercial leadership, regulatory expertise, transaction execution, risk governance, and team development.
The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor to sponsors, promoters, institutional investors, and banking partners, while ensuring that transactions are delivered to the highest standards of governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to clients on strategic corporate and infrastructure initiatives
• Support the IDFG Europe Head in formulating and executing the regional business strategy
• Strengthen relationships with sponsors, promoters, institutional investors, and commercial banks
• Develop local origination and execution capabilities across major EU markets
• Provide market insights and thought leadership to clients and internal stakeholders
• Enhance IDFG’s visibility and credibility within the French and broader EU Project Finance ecosystem

• Originate and structure new Project Finance transactions across key sectors
• Independently lead deal teams through mandate, structuring, approval, and execution phases
• Deliver new mandates to achieve IDFG Europe annual revenue and balance sheet targets
• Contribute actively to revenue forecasting and budget planning
• Ensure compliance with EU regulatory requirements and local supervisory expectations
• Maintain a strong understanding of EU banking regulations applicable to SCB Paris and SCB AG

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Senior-level banking experience within an EU-regulated bank
• Extensive experience in Project Finance origination and execution across Europe
• Strong knowledge of French corporates, sponsors, and institutional investors
• Deep understanding of EU regulatory frameworks impacting banking activities
• Proven track record of delivering revenue growth and closing complex transactions
• Strong credit and risk assessment capabilities
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing and developing teams
• Fluent in French and English

Desirable

• Established network across infrastructure, energy, transport, and development sectors
• Experience working across multiple EU jurisdictions
• Strong negotiation, structuring, and stakeholder management skills
• Strategic mindset combined with strong execution discipline

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.