Job Summary

Join our Metals & Mining Investment Banking team as an Associate Director, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting senior colleagues through the origination, structuring, and execution of sophisticated transactions across global markets.

This position offers comprehensive exposure to a diverse range of investment banking advisory services, with opportunities to deepen your expertise in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital markets transactions, and sector-specific insights particularly focused on metals, mining, and critical minerals.

Ideal candidates will bring 2–3 years of relevant investment banking experience, emphasizing transaction execution in natural resources and related sectors, coupled with strong financial modelling and valuation capabilities.

You will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment that values analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage complex cross-border deals, providing a unique platform to advance your professional career.

Embrace this exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team delivering innovative financial solutions with tangible global impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end execution of mergers and acquisitions transactions, ensuring meticulous attention to detail and timely delivery throughout all phases.
• Develop and refine comprehensive financial models, including discounted cash flow (DCF) and leveraged buyout (LBO) analyses, to evaluate company valuations under diverse operational scenarios and transaction structures.
• Prepare and deliver compelling presentation materials addressing strategic options, market positioning, and execution frameworks for client interactions.
• Engage actively in transaction origination, due diligence processes, document drafting, and coordination among internal and external stakeholders to drive successful deal closures.
• Collaborate with Directors and Vice Presidents to draft marketing and transaction documentation, maintaining high standards and consistency across materials.
• Review work produced by junior team members, providing constructive feedback to uphold quality and accuracy.
• Support the training and professional development of junior colleagues, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment.
• Conduct thorough industry, country, and company research including benchmarking analyses to inform strategic recommendations.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across Standard Chartered to leverage expertise and resources effectively.
• Manage day-to-day project progress, mitigating risks and ensuring seamless execution support on live transactions.

Skills and Experience

• Advanced proficiency in financial statement analysis and interpreting complex financial data to guide strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrable experience providing a full spectrum of investment banking services, with specific focus on natural resources, metals, mining, and critical minerals sectors.
• Strong track record in managing M&A operations and delivering successful deal outcomes under demanding conditions.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to handle multiple complex assignments concurrently.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with internal teams and external clients effectively.
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with aptitude for coaching and mentoring junior professionals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, finance, engineering, or a closely related discipline from a reputable institution.
• Professional certifications relevant to UK financial regulations are highly desirable, reinforcing your understanding of compliance standards.
• Fluency in English is essential to effectively communicate within a multinational corporate environment.
• Previous professional experience in investment banking focused on natural resources, including metals, mining, and critical minerals sectors.
• Hands-on experience managing full lifecycle transaction execution encompassing both M&A and financing transactions within the metals and mining arena.
• Exposure to public market M&A transactions is advantageous, underscoring your versatility in deal execution.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities efficiently under tight deadlines, delivering accurate, high-quality outputs.
• Strong collaboration and communication capabilities enabling effective engagement across diverse teams.
• Demonstrated project management skills and experience supervising junior team members.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and familiarity with financial data platforms such as Bloomberg, S&P Capital IQ, and MergerMarket.
• Outstanding analytical thinking ability and creative problem-solving skills to navigate complex challenges.
• A first-class degree from a distinguished university would be an asset, reflecting academic excellence.

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.