Job Summary

We are seeking a highly capable, entrepreneurial professional to help build and scale a portfolio of strategic financing partnerships across private credit, asset managers, insurers and other institutional investors. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of balance sheet optimisation, structured credit, originate-to-distribute strategies, partnership origination, and strategic execution—helping shape one of the firm’s most important growth platforms.

Strategy
Commercial Growth & Client Engagement
•    Work with senior leaders to deepen relationships with key institutional partners and develop new avenues of financing collaboration.
•    Prepare pitches, proposals, and partnership materials that clearly articulate value, economics, return on equity impact and strategic rationale.
•    Track market trends and competitor activity to position the bank for partnership-led growth.
Strategic Analysis & Execution Support
•    Build high-quality PowerPoint materials, financial models, and internal documents for senior committees, governance forums, and executive stakeholders.
•    Run commercial analyses, scalability assessments, portfolio-level economics and transaction economics.
•    Support the build-out of new platforms, partnership structures, and distribution channels including operational, reporting and governance infrastructure

Business
Structuring & Credit Expertise
•    Apply strong knowledge of structured credit, private credit, securitization, or structured portfolio solutions to evaluate partnership opportunities.
•    Analyse asset pools, credit risk dynamics, regulatory capital impact, capital efficiency, and distribution economics.
•    Support design of originate-to-distribute models, credit covers, risk-sharing structures, and investor frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Processes
Partnership Development & Execution
•    Support the origination, structuring, and execution of financing partnerships with private credit managers, asset managers, insurers, and other institutional partners.
•    Drive workstreams across term sheets, onboarding, legal negotiations, regulatory and accounting alignment and partnership governance.
•    Coordinate with product, risk, legal, distribution, and coverage teams to deliver scalable partnership frameworks that enable balance sheet optimisation and capital recycling

People & Talent
Cross-Functional Leadership
•    Act as a central coordination point across multiple business lines—Risk, Legal, Capital Management, FM, CCIB, Ops, and Tech.
•    Drive execution discipline across complex multi-stakeholder processes from origination through execution and ongoing monitoring

Risk Management
•    Act with integrity to prevent reputational harm and operational losses.
•    Develop a strong understanding of the risk and control framework within the assigned area and lead corrective actions where necessary.
•    Ensure systems and controls are appropriate, effective, and aligned with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards, and codes, covering all relevant risk areas including Compliance, Technology, Operations, Finance, and Reputation.
•    Establish clear accountability structures so team members are well-equipped to perform their responsibilities effectively.
•    Embed the Risk Management framework within the team by ensuring risk appetite is clearly defined aligned with strategy, supported by suitable controls, and reinforced through effective processes for risk identification, monitoring, management, and reporting.
•    Ensure that identified risk issues are addressed through timely remedial actions and, where required, are appropriately escalated and reported to relevant Risk Committees or line management.
•    Ensure all interactions with external parties are conducted prudently and in line with established controls to mitigate operational and reputational risk. 

Governance
•    Ensure effective governance, documentation, monitoring, and reporting of partnership performance in line with regulatory, accounting and internal risk requirements

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
•    Partnership Group
•    Global Banking Teams

Other Responsibilities
•    Adhere to the group’s brand and values in the Banking Partnerships & Investments team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Sales & Relationship Management
•    Market Knowledge
•    Product & Processes 
•    Risk Management

Qualifications

•    5-10 years of experience in private credit, structured credit, securitization, balance sheet optimisation, portfolio driven credit structuring, credit solutions, or DCM-like financing roles.
•    Strong understanding of credit risk, transaction structuring, regulatory capital and prudential frameworks, and investor engagement dynamics
•    Demonstrated ability to work with legal documentation, term sheets, capital structures, and credit cover mechanics, with hands-on experience applying Basel capital treatment, EU/UK Securitisation Regulation requirements and ongoing compliance and reporting obligations
•    Exceptionally detail-oriented, with strong execution discipline and ability to manage multiple workstreams end-to-end.
•    Highly proficient in PowerPoint; comfortable drafting internal papers, memos, pitch decks, and governance materials.
•    Strong financial and commercial acumen with a proven track record of contributing to revenue growth or client engagement, while delivering balance sheet, capital and return on equity optimisation objectives
Preferred
•    Experience in setting up financing partnerships, strategic alliances, or investor platforms.
•    Understanding of originate-to-distribute strategies, private credit trends, and institutional investor ecosystems.
•    Prior exposure to credit portfolio transactions, capital relief trades, or structured distribution including engagement with internal model, regulatory policy and supervisory review processes
Personal Attributes
•    Tenacious, scrappy, and entrepreneurial—comfortable in a high-growth, high-ambiguity environment.
•    Not afraid to “roll up sleeves” and solve problems creatively.
•    Strong communicator with presence and confidence, able to engage senior stakeholders.
•    Highly collaborative, proactive, and intellectually curious.
•    Thrives under pressure and enjoys building new business lines.

Education     Bachelors Degree
Languages     English

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.