Job Summary

The Executive Director will be responsible for the origination, structuring, and execution of limited recourse / non-recourse financing, corporate financing, and asset-based lending, supporting the bank’s global clients across various industry segments including renewable energy, energy transition, oil and gas, infrastructure, manufacturing, and metals and mining. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    In line with Global IDFG strategy.

Business
•    The job requires knowledge and judgement of transactional and structural risks including credit risks (bank / corporate), country & cross-border risk, documentations risk, operational risk, performance risk and market risks. Project Finance transactions can be potentially complex and require a multi-disciplinary, problem solving approach.

Processes
•    Ensure compliance with all IDFG processes and credit underwriting standards.
•    Ensure that good quality review and deal documentation are conducted and compliance with the risk management processes in place.

People & Talent
•    Lead by example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the junior team members and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
•    Train and develop junior team members 
•    Display leadership skill towards junior team members
•    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports (if any) and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives 
•    Ensure that performance of direct reports (if any) is measured by reference to performance against the targets agreed on the scorecards as well as conduct and risk / control culture.
•    Commit to diversity and inclusion principles in hiring approach
•    Encourage a performance driven culture

Risk Management
•    Achieve revenue target in a safe and well-controlled manner on an end-to-end basis 
•    Enforce a culture of risk management, control and governance, and ensure team comply with the risk management processes in place.
•    Ensure strategic execution of transactions remains within the agreed Risk Appetite and Underwriting Standards
•    Proactively advise and monitor all major risk issues. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/ or ensure adequate escalation and reporting to the appropriate Operational Risk Committees
•    Manage the credit approval process efficiently and effectively and establish a good reputation with Credit
•    Understand the credit risks associated with any financing and ensure they are appropriately mitigated to protect the Bank’s interest. Ensure compliance with the risk management processes in place.
•    Ensure that good quality review and deal documentation are conducted and compliance with the risk management processes in place.
•    Ensure that there is clear communication and open dialogue with credit when discussing the merits of each transaction.  
•    Provide support in review and negotiation of legal documentation, ensuring compliance with Bank policy and handover of transactions to Portfolio management Group
•    Assist Portfolio management Group in the administration of relevant loans and review of existing portfolio loans. Provide oversight on annual reviews prior to submission to credit

Governance
•    To ensure compliance with local regulatory bodies and the Bank’s policies as laid down by Group Legal & Compliance
•    Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations 
•    Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge fellow executives effectively; and willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner

Our Ideal Candidate

•    Manage Conduct
•    Manage Risk
•    Manage People
•    Compliance – Governance, Oversight and Control
•    Risk Management – Operational
•    Business – Strategy and Model
•    Business – Market Knowledge 
•    Strategy – Defining Strategy

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

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 216,000 USD to 270,000 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 Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers 

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.