Job Summary

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the growth of the fintech business via dynamic client coverage, strategic engagement across global teams and deep risk engagement. This individual will work closely with the New York team, as well as the global Fintech team, and the Digital Assets team to drive strategic priorities for CIB within the segment. This role will include all aspects of client development, new business generation, and feeding into the broader strategy for the global fintech portfolio, and cross-selling Standard Chartered’s solutions and products.

The clients this role is responsible for are global and require coverage by an experienced professional from a leading Paytech firm or banker with deep industry and product knowledge and a keen understanding of the risk environment. The banker will work in close coordination with their peers and senior management across the US and SCB’s other geographies to support the execution of the global strategy, support key clients and deliver the bank’s products and services across the footprint. This role reports into the Head of Fintech West which covers the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa with a team of fintech coverage bankers based in multiple locations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Support the Head of Fintech West with the overall client strategy for Americas Fintech clients and prospects, including maintaining a deep understanding of the clients’ needs and actively engaging senior executives within clients to build relationships overtime. 

Business

• Collaborate with senior bankers across geographies and the wider network to drive local conversations for inbound business.
• Function as a subject matter expert and provide sector content and insights that enhances strategic dialogues with clients, some highly relevant themes are Correspondent Banking, Markets, GCM, Sustainable Finance and liquidity.
• Build and share understanding of digital assets and developing close relationships with product constituents in the asset class is crucial.

Processes

• Distilling complex information into clearly understood risk and business perspectives. 
• Presenting complex sets of data across digital assets, crypto, payment services, capital markets to both business and risk constituents.

People & Talent

• Set an example across the business not only with respect to the Group Valued behaviours but also in terms of Digital Asset knowledge and engagement to reinforce a culture of excellence in Digital Assets.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.  Set appropriate tone and expectations, work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management

• Maintain strong understanding of credit risk, risk mitigation, and inherent risks around the correspondent banking business.
• Develop understanding of newer financial products and a willingness to spend time understanding and analysing details is critical.
• Develop appropriate reporting and oversight for Financial Markets and GCM product interoperability with the Fintech client space to build a diversified business across this client typology.

Qualifications

•    Degreee educated in finance, mathematical, or business related field
•    15+ years of relevant experience as a Fintech banker or working for a large Paytech company
•    Demonstrated ability to create dynamic ideas, with an appetite to mentor and upskill the team on Fintechs, digital assets, and the changing payments environment.
•    Strong understanding of credit risk, risk mitigation, and inherent risks around the correspondent banking business. 

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 255,000 USD to 330,000 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.