Job Summary

We are seeking an individual to join our team at Standard Chartered Bank in New York. The successful candidate work directly with Financing Solutions Americas’ senior originators, as well as other team members. Coverage includes North America and Latin America.

The role is as an Associate Director in the Financing Solutions Americas (Loan Capital Markets) team. The Associate Director will be responsible for assisting in origination, structuring and execution of debt opportunities (particularly in the loan market) for SCB Financing Solutions’ clients across the U.S. and Latin America. Primary client types for Financing Solutions include corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns.

Key Responsibilities

• Financing Solutions is primarily focused on the origination, structuring, execution and syndication of financing opportunities in the U.S. and Latin America for Corporates, Financial Institutions and Sovereigns
• Identify financing opportunities (primarily in the loan market) for existing and new  clients across the Americas
• Prepare and deliver pitches to clients on identified origination scenarios to maximise SCB involvement in loan opportunities and any related business (DCM and FX/rates hedging as most frequent)
• Help originate and execute loan financings from inception to completion, which will include credit analysis, structuring, documentation, working with Syndicate & Financing Risk on distribution as well as management of internal booking and reporting processes
• This includes work on client pitches, drafting offer letters and term sheets, underwriting applications, information memoranda, roadshow presentations, documentation and responding to queries from banks during syndication process.

Day-to-Day Tasks

• Assist in the maintenance of internal transaction databases and presentation materials, support with regular portfolio management duties as well as ad-hoc tasks to support our stakeholders
• Keeping up to date on market developments and undertaking comparable transaction analysis
• Financial/credit analysis of financing opportunities and preparing summaries and analysis of key risks
• Manage credit process for financing deals, including preparation of credit applications
• Perform financial analysis of companies / projects, industry research
• Build financial models and use for analysis in financing transactions
• Manage deal documentation process by coordinating with internal legal and external legal counsel
• Coordinate with various stakeholders to ensure deal execution and closing within required timeframe

Our Ideal Candidate

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field is required
• Professional qualifications such as CPA, CFA and CMA are highly preferred
• Experience in finance and accounting required
• Experience in financial modelling and strong credit analysis skills required
• Experience in banking required

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

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 147, 000 USD to 210,000 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.

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.

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