Job Summary

Join our dynamic team as an Associate, Loans and Agency, where you’ll play a key role in supporting Structured Export Finance and Agency Operations. Your primary focus will be to ensure Export Credit Agency (ECA) backed facilities are in line with required terms and conditions. This role involves thorough checking of documentation, monitoring ECA conditions, and liaising with various stakeholders for clarity and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Documentation Review: Scrutinize documents presented for each utilization under ECA-backed facilities, ensuring compliance with Commercial Contracts, Facility Agreements, and ECA Agreements.
• Ongoing Monitoring: Ensure that ECA coverage remains intact throughout the facility’s term by monitoring conditions closely.
• Stakeholder Communication: Liaise with Exporters and Facility Agents to clarify or amend documentation when required.
• Risk Management: Identify, predict, and mitigate potential risks by managing exceptions and ensuring adherence to department checklists and processes.
• Operational Efficiency: Drive initiatives to streamline processes, improve team efficiency, and reduce operational risks.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Attention to Detail: Meticulous review and verification of loan and ECA-related documentation.
• Strong Communication: Clear and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Risk Awareness: Proactive in identifying and addressing risk factors and ensuring compliance.
• Document Competence: Strong knowledge of loan and ECA documentation and processes.

Qualifications

• Export Credit Agency Knowledge: Familiarity with ECA-backed facilities and terms.
• Structured Export Finance: Understanding of structured finance within export operations.
• Experience: Prior experience in loan documentation and agency operations, with a focus on accuracy and risk management.
• Soft Skills: Ability to work under pressure, handle multiple tasks, and maintain a high level of accuracy.

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.