Job Description
Join our Transition Finance & Advisory (TFA) team as an Associate and play a key role in financing the global energy transition. Sitting within the technology vertical, this is a high-impact Investment Banking role combining financial modelling, client engagement, and sector expertise.
You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders to originate and execute transactions across cutting-edge decarbonisation sectors, including CCUS, green metals, batteries, low-carbon energies, and hydrogen. This is an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to live mandates, develop deep industry knowledge, and contribute to building a leading transition finance franchise.
Key Responsibilities
- Support origination and execution of M&A, debt advisory, and project finance transactions
- Build and maintain complex financial models and valuations
- Develop high-quality client materials, including pitch books and market insights
- Partner with sector, coverage, and product teams to identify and pursue new business opportunities
- Contribute to the Bank’s strategy to monetise the energy transition across priority sectors
- Monitor industry trends, regulatory developments, and investor preferences in sustainable finance
- Support client engagement and participate in live deal execution
- Ensure robust risk management, including environmental, social, regulatory, and reputational considerations
- Promote strong governance and compliance with internal policies and external regulatory frameworks
Skills and Qualifications
- 1–3 years’ experience in Investment Banking, ideally with exposure to M&A or debt advisory
- Strong financial modelling and valuation skills (financial modelling: building quantitative representations of financial performance to support decision-making)
- Demonstrated interest in energy, infrastructure, or decarbonisation sectors
- Ability to analyse complex data and translate it into clear, client-ready insights
- Strong research skills and attention to detailCollaborative mindset with the ability to work across multiple stakeholders and teams
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of capital markets and investor dynamics is advantageous
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.
