Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Clients/ Partners: Collaborate and partner with financial sponsors, funds and private credit institutions. To evaluate and implement solutions such as advisory and financing for sponsors and funds’ clients for transportation assets, and access for our corporate clients to the private credit capital pool with joint commitments on direct lending.
•    Industry: Primary focus to originate in aviation across the lessor spectrum. Down the line, to expand further into other transportation segments including airlines, shipping, airports, infrastructure, etc. Develop a client focused strategy for these segments to generate a stable long-term revenue stream for the business.

Business
•    Effectively use industry expertise, knowledge and professional network to develop and lead the strategies outlined with a strong focus on Originate to Distribute model.
•    Complete and independent ownership of all aspects covering development of client strategy, deal sourcing, evaluation and execution with a firm view on the constant trade-offs between new business, risk, return and capital deployment
•    Active role in origination, pitching, and execution of strategic/ financial/ debt advisory mandates
•    Client interface at CxO levels and ensuring that the engagement, services and quality of work meets the highest industry standards
•    Generate a consistent flow of high-quality pipeline opportunities across aviation and other transportation segments
•    Keeping abreast of key developments in transportation and working closely with internal stakeholders across sustainable finance and financial markets to actively spot and create client opportunities

Processes
•    Responsible as deal team member/ leader for end to end aspects of any strategic initiative or transaction covering origination, structuring, pitching, negotiations, due diligence, execution, credit engagement, approval processes and legal documentation
•    Efficiently manage multiple stakeholders and deals at the same time working in close coordination with other deal team members, across functions, businesses and geographies.

People & Talent
•    Lead by example to build the right culture, set objectives and expectations from the junior members and provide feedback through regular engagement
•    Collaboration with all internal stakeholders especially senior stakeholders across coverage, risk, other product teams such as syndications/ distribution, financial markets and transaction banking, and support functions

Risk Management
•    Ensure that new and existing business is consistent with the Bank’s policies, meeting applicable credit and other risk criteria, internal procedures and provide acceptable risk adjusted returns for the Bank, in line with the credit underwriting principles
•    Pro-active risk management through strong engagement with clients and management of exposure.
•    If and when the situation arise, own-up the transactions and lead the restructuring/recovery along with the distressed/ special assets team

Governance
•    Understand and be aware of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters

Skills and Experience

•    Addressing Customer Needs
•    Client Relationship Management
•    Cross-Selling
•    Financial Statement Analysis
•    Industry Knowledge
•    Sales Closing and Agreements

Qualifications

•    Degree from an accredited university
•    8+ years of work experience in a bank or financial institution preferably in aviation finance, corporate finance, transportation structured finance and/or project finance.
•    Expertise on asset finance advisory, debt financing, operating and/or finance lease structures
•    Excellent knowledge of, work experience, and good network, within the Aviation industry is a must-have requirement
•    Good and proven understanding of sustainable finance and ESG trends in the sector
•    Strong demonstrated credentials in managing and executing large complex well-structured transactions and confidently dealing with C-suite management
•    Superior analytical aptitude, interpersonal/ communication and organisational skills
•    Leadership potential is highly valued and ability to mentor junior resources within the team
•    Strong work ethic, detail orientation, attention to detail and a passion for excellence
•    Ability to multitask and deliver under time pressure in a highly competitive and dynamic deal driven environment

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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