Job Summary

The Structured Trade Solutions (STS) is a team within the Transaction Banking, which is responsible for origination, negotiation and structuring of bespoke or structured trade finance solutions to meet our client needs. Consulting with clients, industry thought leadership and specialist knowledge of solutions are the way team members drive origination and then lead the structuring and negotiation of solutions. You are responsible for delivering the revenue budget for your assigned markets and/or client segments, with accountability for originating, structuring and executing transactions.

Strategy
•    Contribute actively to the STS regional strategy and support execution of agreed priorities for the assigned markets and client segments.
•    Support and, where appropriate, lead thematic industry discussions with clients, coverage teams and product partners.
•    Identify opportunities to replicate relevant transactions within and across industries, subject to client suitability, risk appetite and governance requirements.
•    Help deliver a consistent client experience while reflecting local market, regulatory and execution requirements.

Business
Solutions Development & Delivery
•    Based on a sound understanding of industry dynamics and structured trade solutions, identify client opportunities, engage consultatively, and help convert them into executable transactions that address client needs.
•    Provide practical input to product partners on key product requirements to be develop or product variation that is considered as standard in local market. 

Financial Management – Product P/L Management
•    Contribute to budget delivery through active origination, execution and portfolio discipline across:
o    Originating new revenue opportunities
o    Maintaining and growing existing deal revenue
o    Driving utilisation of approved facilities

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent 
•    Demonstrate leadership without direct reporting lines by working collaboratively with senior transactors, coverage teams, product partners and control functions to identify client opportunities, structure practical solutions, mitigate risks and ensure process risks are identified and managed.

Risk Management
•    Articulate to clients, risk teams and other stakeholders how a proposed solution meets client needs, improves efficiency, supports growth, mitigates risks and, where relevant, enables wider investor participation.
•    Develop and apply strong knowledge of legal, regulatory and market considerations relevant to structured trade solutions in assigned jurisdictions, escalating specialist matters where required.
•    Takes the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational, and ethical matters by providing proactive advice to clients and sales teams
•    Ensure personal adherence to high standards of ethics and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations.
•    Ensure appropriate inputs are incorporated in  credit memo / Term sheet / Pre-Screening review, etc 
•    Actively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters for the region and delivery mechanisms relevant for the industry globally, in a timely manner

Governance 
•    Demonstrate accountability for all deal-related risks within own transactions by applying appropriate governance standards and seeking guidance where matters are complex or ambiguous.
•    Identifies and mitigates deal level operational, credit, regulatory, legal, fraud and risks in the processes via a business Conduct lens.
•    Ensures the relevant approvals (including compliance with relevant deal review guidelines) for a transaction or client engagement are sought and can be produced for an audit review at any point in time 
•    Take the lead and work with Compliance, Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Compliance stakeholders to identify relevant risks and apply appropriate mitigation processes.

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.
•    Responsible to meet the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles:  Fair Outcomes for Clients and Financial Crime Compliance.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    Global Head STS, STS Regional Lead, Global Industry lead, Relationship Managers, TB Sales, Trade Product Manager and their Country and Regional Heads, Credit, Legal and Compliance.

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

•    Consulting Proposals
•    Knowledge of Product Line
•    Legal Analysis
•    Financial Statement Analysis
•    Credit Analysis and Verification
•    International Trade
•    Industry knowledge
•    Structured Trade and Commodity Financing

Qualifications

•    Core Credit and Risk Management Certification completed or to be completed within 12 months of joining the team.
•    Relevant credit and risk management training completed or to be completed within 12 months of joining the team, as required by role and policy.

•    Have worked across multiple regions and with large clients
•    Have delivered complex or bespoke transactions for at least 3 years, including experience in syndicated deals, distributor finance, receivables programmes and structured trade finance transactions, with demonstrated transaction execution and stakeholder management skills.
•    Understands nuances of working with third party platforms/fintechs, structures and risks involved
•    Have worked on securitisation, receivables purchase and supplier finance transactions
•    Total years of relevant experience: typically 7+ years
•    Strong risk analysis skills
•    Articulation and brevity while knowing the details is a key
•    Multi-cultural and geography experience is a positive.
•    Ability to speak, read and write Chinese is an advantage

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.