Key Responsibilities

• Support LAF Europe and Americas business strategy
• Delivery of business strategy across all facility-types including leveraged term loans and high yield bonds, as well as idea generation and relevant information sharing, resourcing and best practices.
• Collaboratively engage with internal teams including, coverage, credit risk, legal and compliance teams as appropriate.
• Assist in the origination, structuring, and execution of leveraged finance transactions, including LBOs, high yield bond financings, recapitalizations, and other debt financing solutions.
• Lead and coordinate due diligence efforts including detailed financial analysis and modelling, review of diligence reports, business plans, and industry research.
• Organise and support preparation of comprehensive credit memos and presentations for internal approvals.
• Help senior originators with business development in building and maintaining client relationships, e.g. by preparing materials, identify early-stage opportunities, developing financing considerations, and attending meetings.
• Execution of leveraged loan and high yield bond mandates
• Stay informed about market trends and industry developments, help build thematic ideas.
• Work closely with internal teams, including credit risk, syndication, legal, and syndication, to ensure seamless execution of transactions.
• Supervision, guidance, and mentorship of junior team members, fostering their professional development and enhancing team capabilities.

Qualifications

• Education: Exemplary academic record (minimum undergraduate degree; CFA or similar an advantage but not a necessity)
• Experience: Proven experience in leveraged finance transactions (including recent experience in high yield execution)
• Knowledge: Strong understanding and experience working in the European leveraged finance market and debt structures
• Key Skills: Credit analysis, capital markets executions, financial modeling, and analytical skills.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to understand and present complex information clearly and concisely.
• Approach: Commercial outlook, self-motivated with ability / desire to take responsibility for all aspects of deal execution and willingness to work in a relatively small team with very flat structure. Ability to work accurately, multi-task and adhere to tight deadlines is critical.

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.