Job Summary

We are seeking an Associate or Associate Director (Sovereigns) to join our Capital Structure & Rating Advisory (CSRA) team in London. In this role, you will support the CSRA Sovereign Advisory Head and work closely with the senior members of CSRA team and partner with Relationship Managers and Product Partners to engage Sovereigns and Multilateral Development Bank clients on capital structure and ratings insights to further origination efforts. Scope of this engagement can include covering tactical positioning with debt investors to minimise cost of capital raise, balance sheet management and funding considerations, policy planning, and ratings management.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
The Associate / Associate Director is responsible for supporting the implementation of the Sovereign Capital Structure & Rating Advisory team’s origination, coverage and execution strategy. 

Business
•    The CSRA team provides thought leadership, best practice insight, corporate finance and rating advice to corporate, FI and Sovereign clients. Content is driven by deep understanding of client needs, sector trends and market themes to help the origination efforts.
•    Support seniors in identifying client’s financial needs and solutions and in the preparation of client facing materials around debt optimisation, investor engagement, policy impact, contingent liabilities management, macroeconomic and political analysis, ratings, or other relevant topics
•    Develop a good understanding of external credit ratings methodologies and support origination and execution of key rating advisory mandates
•    Prepare financial models to simulate specific client situations and scenarios
•    Conduct detailed research on specific clients, regulation and key financial and strategic themes
•    Form a good understanding of the bank’s products and offering

Processes
•    Internal databases (WIP, COOL list) kept up to date
•    Help to maintain pipeline and deal team
•    Ensure Conflict of Interest register remains update

People & Talent
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and value

Risk Management
Take the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational and ethical matters, not only responding to requests for advice, but where appropriate taking the initiative in volunteering advice the need for which may not have been appreciated.

Governance
Maintain a current catalogue of work in progress and completed work, using team-agreed tools and approaches

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

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CSRA; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Key stakeholders

Internal
•    Global Account Managers and Relationship Managers
•    Product Partners - Global Banking, Financial Markets, Transaction Banking
•    Economists
•    Risk Officer

External
•    Corporate & Institutional clients
•    Rating agencies
•    Other conference and media providers

Qualifications

•    Previous experience of a similar role, in a leading investment or commercial bank / advisory firm / rating agency environment. To include: experience of addressing debt management, policy planning and rating relevant topics with sovereign clients from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint
•    Good understanding of sovereign balance sheets; familiarity with rating agency methodologies and IMF guidelines / tools
•    Client-oriented mindset and being comfortable with an advisory/structuring role with significant client contact
•    Proficient use of Excel, PowerPoint, data analysis and research tools and methods
•    Basic understanding of corporate and/or investment banking organisational design and a demonstrated ability to ‘navigate’ to achieve client delivery in a safe and sound manner
•    Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to work across cultures and within a dynamic environment 
•    Strong interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to appropriately ‘manage’ demands from peers and superiors 
•    Genuine team-based approach to making the organisation work for the business.
•    French language proficiency is a plus

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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