Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Credit Manager – Funds Risk to join our London-based team, leading credit risk coverage for Hedge Funds (HFs) and Real Money Funds (RMFs) across EMEA.

This is a high-impact, client-facing role where you will partner closely with the business, Risk colleagues, and senior stakeholders to assess, challenge, and manage complex credit exposures. You will play a key role in safeguarding the organisation’s risk appetite while enabling sustainable growth across Financial Markets.

Working within a collaborative and high-performing environment, you will combine deep technical expertise with commercial judgement to influence risk decisions, enhance processes, and drive best-in-class risk management practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end credit risk coverage for Hedge Funds and Real Money Funds across EMEA
• Conduct in-depth due diligence, underwriting, and onboarding of new fund clients
• Analyse fund strategies, underlying products, and drivers of performance and risk
• Monitor portfolio exposures, stress losses, and risk metrics (including NAV and performance trends)
• Review and approve credit proposals from the First Line of Defence within delegated authority
• Ensure adherence to Credit Risk Appetite and escalate material risks to senior management
• Partner with stakeholders across Front Office, Market Risk, Finance, Legal, and Compliance
• Contribute to risk governance forums, including stress testing and scenario analysis initiatives
• Support continuous improvement of underwriting quality, processes, and operational efficiency
• Maintain robust risk identification, measurement, and reporting standards in line with regulatory expectations
• Contribute to strategic initiatives and provide risk input into business planning and decision-making
• Foster a strong risk culture, ensuring transparency, independence, and integrity in risk/return decisions
• Collaborate globally on live transactions, portfolio management, and client coverage

Skills and Qualifications

• Proven experience in counterparty credit risk management covering Hedge Funds and/or Real Money Funds
• Strong expertise in due diligence, underwriting, onboarding, and ongoing risk monitoring
• Deep understanding of financial markets products and fund structures
• Experience with ISDA/CSA, GMRA and GMSLA documentation and negotiation
• Advanced analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify key risk drivers
• Proficiency in financial analysis tools and risk management systems (advanced Excel skills expected)
• Solid understanding of regulatory frameworks related to credit and operational risk
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with confidence operating in a client-facing environment
• Ability to work independently in a lean team, while collaborating effectively across regions
• Proactive, adaptable mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related discipline (Master’s degree preferred)
• Professional certifications such as CFA or FRM are highly desirable

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.