Job Details

Director, Leveraged and Acquisition Finance
Job Description
Requisition Number:  54859
Job Location:  New York, USA
Global Grade:  Band 5
Work Type:  Hybrid Working
Employment Type:  Permanent
Posting Start Date:  26/06/2026
Posting End Date:  01/08/2026
Job Description: 

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead LAF transactions, focused on Europe & Americas, working with client teams and across products to cross-sell and execute deals
  • Organize and drive business success through improvement in client penetration and profitability in conjunction with coverage partners
  • Support Leveraged and Acquisition Finance Business
  • Perform financial and valuation analyses using various methodologies as relevant for Acquisition Finance
  • Involved in day-to-day project management, execution support, and stakeholder management
  • Build detailed financial and economic models for financing
  • Participate in both origination and execution of transactions, from the pitch phase through to closing
  • Support the preparation of presentation materials for use in client meetings, covering topics such as high yield bond issuance
  • Support by providing detailed industry analysis
  • Post execution monitoring / client management
  • Manage business and risk management process issues by interacting (where required) with representatives on various risk, governance and control committees

Skills and Experience

  • Client Relationship Management
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Knowledge of Product Line
  • Credit Analysis
  • Financial Modelling

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of Experience Leveraged Finance & Private Credit
  • Bachelors Degree 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 210,000 USD to 275,000 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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