Job Description

We’re looking for an Associate, Infrastructure & Development Finance Group (IDFG) to join our dynamic team in Europe. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a high-performing unit driving sustainable infrastructure and development finance transactions across diverse markets.

In this role, you’ll support origination and execution of complex financing and advisory deals, working alongside senior team members to deliver innovative, impactful solutions. You’ll build financial models, prepare client materials, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth deal delivery and risk management.

If you’re passionate about infrastructure finance, enjoy analytical work, and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment — this is the perfect next step in your career.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution and closing of Infrastructure & Development Finance transactions across Europe.
• Prepare financial models, credit analyses, and presentation materials for client pitches and approvals.
• Assist in structuring, arranging, negotiating, and documenting transactions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across relationship management, credit, legal, tax, and operations to deliver seamless execution.
• Analyse and summarise transaction economics and performance under various scenarios.
• Contribute to portfolio management by monitoring existing deals and supporting the Portfolio Analytics & Monitoring team.
• Identify cross-sell opportunities with partners across derivatives, syndications, and transaction banking.
• Stay current on market developments, emerging sectors, and regulatory trends to support strategic initiatives.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Strong financial modelling and quantitative analysis capabilities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Solid understanding of project finance, infrastructure, or development finance.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset.
• Collaborative team player with a proactive approach and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Prior experience in project finance, corporate banking, or infrastructure finance preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel-based financial modelling and financial analysis tools.
• Understanding of risk management, credit assessment, and deal documentation processes.

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.