We are seeking an individual to join our team at Standard Chartered Bank in New York. The successful candidate will be working directly with the Executive Director, Loan Syndicate as well as other team members to maximize the efficiency by being responsible for supporting the distribution capabilities of Loan Syndicate (LS) in the Americas, as part of the implementation of the global Loan Syndicate strategy, aligned to the overall strategic direction of Syndicate & Financing Risk and Corporate Investment Banking.

We are seeking a highly organized, proactive, and energetic Associate to join our team. The ideal candidate will actively participate in the global Syndicate & Financing Risk strategy, which aims to maximise shareholder value, identifies and creates areas of competitive advantage and aligns to the overall strategic direction of the wider business. You will develop relationships with the loan investor universe, in order to achieve successful primary and secondary distribution objectives.

The ideal candidate must be ready to take on additional responsibilities and be motivated to work on transactions across various industries that Standard Chartered is involved in. In this role, you aren’t just managing a process; you are a key player in the employee and key stakeholder’s experience. We believe that a willingness to acquire new skills will contribute to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist senior directors to coordinate with the business lines, to review deal structures, to optimize sell down strategy/timing, to monitor the bank underwriting exposure, with market sounding, internal reporting, maintaining market and client databases and execute the distribution strategies of primary syndicated loans.
• Assist the bookrunning processes of Americas and other regions’ transactions whilst ensuring stakeholders are updated consistently on the primary syndication process.
• Assist distribution of secondary loans for the Bank alongside Portfolio Management
• Provide loan market intelligence to other product partners
• Adherence to and promotion of governance, compliance and risk standards.
• Provide pricing feedback to various teams as and when requested
• Provide market intelligence to contribute to underwriting decisions and help in monitoring of underwriting risk.
• Manage the team’s market comparable pricing and transactional database with analytical output provided to the wider team as required.
• Write and maintain investors meeting reports and deal pipeline.
• Coordinate with compliance on KYC process and monitoring.
• Ensure timely and accurate update of underwritten deals status in internal systems.

Day-to-Day Tasks

• Provide syndication support to product partners and syndication team on various transactions
• Assist in providing information around Syndication strategy that is accurate and detailed for Underwriting Applications on a timely basis (i.e., resulting in minimal to no delays with respect to the transaction), according to the standard and format
• To assist originations in the preparation of client pitchbooks, deals teasers and RFP responses where necessary
• Draft T&C offer sheets according to the specifics of each transaction ensuring that they are accurate and contain the necessary marketing information as stipulated from time to time
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of secondary sales are inputted into the Deal ticket system
• Ensure that sales are inputted into the LS Americas deal ticket book
• Support the team in the preparation of internal presentations
• Ensure that investors feedback are captured in the respective databases
• Ensure that syndication and distribution is carried out within the Group’s risk appetite and reputational and credit risks are appropriately managed in conjunction with direct reports and other Stakeholders
• Ensure any audit and compliance issues are resolved in a timely manner
• Ensure that risk management matters are brought up accordingly

Key Skills and experience we look for

• 1-3 years’ experience 
• Loan underwriting and loan syndication background
• Project Finance and/or Fund Finance experience
• Structured Finance and/or Lending skills

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 136,000 USD to 170,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

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