Key Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of the group business strategy of servicing clients by leveraging our footprint and building franchise.
• Originate and lead LAF transactions, focused on Europe, 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 the continued growth of the High Yield and leveraged loan business.
• Tie in with overall client / segment strategy with CIC.
• Product revenue & LT positions, contribute to SCB’s market share.
• Ensure transaction structures are in line with client requirements, market standards and the Bank’s internal risk parameters.
• Monitor and deliver financial performance targets, optimizing risk and return. 
• Deal pre-screening and identifying potential high yield bond and leveraged loan opportunities.
• Deal execution and closure.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Degree educated in a Finance/ Mathematical field (preferred) and/or 
• Extensive proven experience in a recognised financial institution originating and executing Leveraged and Acquisition Finance deals 
• Established knowledge of markets and products
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance obligations
• Fluency in written and verbal business English
• European language would be ideal but not 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.