Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic Head of Syndication & Financing Risk Tech Delivery to spearhead the development of Risk, Analytics, and Data solutions for our Syndication and Financing Risk business. This pivotal technology leadership role focuses on delivering data-driven risk solutions for loans, syndications, CLOs, and synthetic financing. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams, data scientists, product owners, and business stakeholders to create and implement data analytics, and automation tools that enhance decision-making and risk assessment..

Key Responsibilities

• Technology & Solution Delivery: Design, develop, and implement Risk and Analytics solutions for credit risk and financing inclusive of data sourcing and pipelines as required.
• Agile Methodologies: Apply Agile methodologies to ensure efficient and iterative project delivery.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with business and engineering teams to ensure seamless project execution and alignment with business goals.

Skills and Qualifications

Skill

• Data Management & Analytics: Expertise in data management and risk analytics to deliver optimal insight and risk analytics solutions.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in Python, SQL - autonomy with Data/Databases. Familiar and curious about genAI, AI tools and modern technology stacks.
• Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of credit markets, lending data, and syndication processes, with the ability to apply this knowledge to improve the platform and build risk and analytics business solutions.
• Agile & DevOps: Experience in Agile methodologies, ensuring efficient, iterative development.
• Leadership: ability to lead a team toward specific business outcomes

Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics (Economics is a plus).
• CFA or FRM certification preferred.
• Ideally: 15+ years of experience in credit or lending risk technology team or credit risk analytics team with strong technology and delivery abilities.

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.