About SC Ventures

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.
We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.
We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.
We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates.

Job Summary

SC Ventures is a business unit within Standard Chartered that provides a platform and catalyst for innovation, investment and exploration of alternative business models through venture building. SC Ventures is searching for a Director-level candidate to join its recently established Fundraising and M&A team supporting the venture portfolio built over the past six years. With both fast-growing and maturing ventures there is a need to support external fundraising and M&A activity. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Evaluate opportunities for existing portfolio companies, including competitor research, sector, competitor and valuation benchmarking.

Business

• Deal management for Fundraising and M&A transactions, working with Operating Member and Deal Captain(s) on development and execution of a comprehensive fundraising plan. Coordinate work with ventures, financial advisors and team members to deliver overall deal execution. Liaison point with Operating Member for Fundraising and M&A and Fundraising Deal Captain as interface with ventures / investors and SC Ventures Operating Members 

Processes
1)    Manage the entire deal life cycle from originating to signing and closing deals.
2)    Manage senior internal stakeholders and processes through deal life cycle.
3)    Manage external advisers through deal life cycle.   
4)    Preparation of fundraising timeline, documents and data rooms
5)    Build and evaluate financial models for deal analysis

People & Talent 

• Manage internal project teams through the deal life cycle
• Work with junior team members on skills and knowledge development
• Work with venture leads and teams with respect to deal preparation and execution

Risk Management

• Ensure risk assessment, through due diligence, developing a comprehensive integration plan.  
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with fundraising, mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.
• Draw on previous experience to ensure successful deal execution, minimising potential risks.
• Compliance: Ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, laws, and industry standards. 

Governance 

• Manage senior internal stakeholders and processes through deal life cycle.
• Preparation of documentation to be presented at Approvals Committees

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Operating Member, Fundraising and M&A
• Deal Captain, Fundraising
• SCV Functions 
• SCV COO Team 

Qualification

• 6-9 years professional experience in fundraising and M&A ideally at a bulge bracket bank, PE /Venture fund or similar.
• Robust financial and analytical skillset 
• Prior demonstrable involvement in fundraising and M&A transactions
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience in complex deal structuring and negotiation
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively within a team.
• Confident in leading counterparty and investor calls
• Deal Structuring experience
• A driven self-starter with appositive outlook and can-do attitude to drive deals.
• Existing affinity to Fintech and Digital Assets sector gained through academic or professional experience would be beneficial. 
• Strong PowerPoint and excel skills.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• ECM or DCM experience
• Financial Analysis
• Deal Ownership 
   

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.