Associate, Structured Trade Solutions Development (Structured Trade Transactions) MEA

Standard Chartered; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Learning and development

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking an Associate in Structured Trade Solutions Development (MEA) to support transactors in achieving revenue targets, pipeline submission, and monthly reviews. The role includes drafting memos, client proposals, and pricing, while coordinating with legal, compliance, and risk teams to ensure robust, compliant trade finance structures.

The candidate will work in tandem with SST transactors, handling products such as open account, inventory/warehouse finance and complex

Qualifications

• Knowledge of trade products.
• Broad banking experience with exposure to clients in Africa and/or Middle East.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SST transactors to develop structures and prepare pitch books / responses to RfPs to meet clients financing needs.
• Assist in identifying explicit and implied client needs, engaging key influencers and decision makers, developing solutions and leading proposals and pitches to clients.
• Coordinate with in-house legal and external counsel to ensure robust documentation in line with bank requirements.
• Manage risk by preparing pre-screening memos and credit memos with clear deal structure and revenue economics.
• Maintain MIS and prepare reports for senior management reviews.

Skills

Trade products knowledge

Banking experience (MEA/Africa)

Job description

Associate, Structured Trade Solutions Development (Structured Trade Transactions) MEA

Responsible for supporting transactors and the team achieve revenue targets, leading Pipeline submission, Monthly Business reviews, Accurate PMIs, DIFC classification reporting. Supporting in preparing Deal Memos and Transactions Memos.
Supporting revenue targets set for structured trade transactions.
The role involves drafting pre-screening memos, expressions of interest / response to requests for proposals, pitch books, BCAs, bespoke DoIs, and documentation of structured trade transactions.
Working in tandem with SST transactors.
The role will involve executing bespoke trade finance solutions for client needs, including but not limited to open a/c financing, inventory/warehouse finance, complex documentary trade transactions, etc.
The role will also involve reporting team performance statistics on a monthly basis.

Strategy
Understanding of Client
Deep understanding of clients’ business needs, footprint, buying centres, decision makers, etc.
Together with the transactors, owns Account Plan commitments related to structured trade transactions.
Understanding of trade products and its applicability to solve client needs.
Assist transactors originate and scope by employing a consultative approach of finding needs and providing solutions to clients either directly or through trade sales teams

Key Responsibilities

Business
Structure and Negotiate
Together with the transactors, develop structures and prepare pitch books / response to RfPs to meet clients financing needs. Assist transactors in identifying explicit and implied client needs, engaging key influencers and decision makers, developing solutions and leading proposals and pitches to clients.
Preparing and negotiating (together with the transactors) term sheets with the client. To vet the underlying commercial contracts, if any.
Help ensure deal selection is optimal.
To interface and engage with In-house Legal and external counsel as applicable to ensure the documentation is robust and in line with banks requirements.
To engage various teams and work to resolve operational, regulatory & compliance, accounting and tax issues.
Assist structure the solutions for the distribution/sell down of the assets (developed through various structures including ECAs, credit insurance, primary market distribution etc).
Run appropriate pricing calculators to price the transaction appropriately and charge structuring fees commensurate with the risk, solution and efforts.

Processes
Delivery and Execution
To be aware of the operational aspects of each product and systems so that structures are developed which keeps operational risks at accepted levels.
To coordinate with the delivery teams to ensure that draw downs happen smoothly.

Risk Management
To be able to prepare pre-screening memos and credit memos so that deal structure, risks and revenue economics can be effectively communicated to relevant stakeholders.
To help ensure that the solutions are in line with the banks policies and deviations are appropriately identified and approvals sought.
To assist discuss structure and risks along with RM teams and credit.
To ensure key risk triggers are monitored.
To keep track of deal BCA renewals.

Governance
Build strong knowledge of local regulations and initiatives of local industry bodies to ensure the business is ahead of the regulatory change agenda.
Proactively engage business & functional partners / stakeholders to drive the origination sales agenda with clients.
Maintain a strong MIS and prepare reports for senior management reviews.
Promote the SCB brand and exemplify the values of the Group in all undertakings, including adherence to the Group Code of Conduct.

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, escalation, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters

Key stakeholders
Internal
SST transactors.
Country and Regional Trade Heads and TB heads.
Country and Regional Heads of Products.
Country and Regional Heads of Coverage.
External
Represent SCB and Transaction Banking with all stakeholders including Clients and industry bodies.

Skills and Experience

Knowledge of Trade products.
Broad banking experience with exposure to clients of Africa and / or Middle East.

Skills
Ability to assist transactors identify client needs and create solutions to generate new to bank business.
Providing inputs on transaction structuring, whilst conforming to the Bank’s policies and client’s objectives.
Ability to assist transactors cultivate a network of relationships in the client with key influencers and senior decision makers to identify and win deals.
Ability to assist transactors probe the commercial implications of client's needs and provide solutions and advice that positively impact the client’s operational and financial performance.
Strategic: ability to have an independent view on transactions, and willingness to challenge transactors.
Analytical: ability to search for reasons and causes behind events and decisions and be able to brainstorm on all the factors that might affect a situation. Ability to understand, and communicate industry and business risks and find solutions that fit within acceptable risk levels.
Effective communication skills: Well-developed written and spoken communication skills to promote SCB
capabilities within the SCB Group and externally and ability to coordinate and manage multiple stakeholders.
Diligence – Help ensure deals are closed efficiently, fees booked within committed timelines and budgets are met.
Behaviours
Wants to be a partner of the transactors – to provide inputs, challenge thoughts, and take work out of the transactors’ plate and run independently.
Strong credibility with key stakeholders, i.e. Risk, RMs and Transaction Banking teams.
Sharp commercial focus, analytical mindset, consultative engagement style, innovative problem solving approach, and strong achievement orientation

Qualifications

Experience
Broad banking experience with exposure to clients of Africa and / or Middle East.
Knowledge of Trade products.
Proven ability to run independently with opportunities once they are identified.
Lead discussions with internal stakeholders including RM teams, credit, CRC and operations.
Teamwork: ability to work in a cross cultural team and maximize the team effort
Knowledge
Basic Structured Trade knowledge.
Ability to handle documentation.
Managing deal lifecycle post identification of transactions - structuring to term-sheet/credit workshopping/negotiating facility docs/execution.
Good credit understanding and experience. Coordinate input and approvals from internal stakeholders on the solutions.
Risk – Exposure to credit analysis and BCA writing of complex clients. Experience of executing multi geography transactions with understanding of legal and regulatory implications will be beneficial.
Exposure to ECA, Insurance, Syndications, risk participation and True sale will be beneficial.
CCC certified.

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.