Associate Director, Financing Solutions

myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank seeks an Assistant Director for its Financing Solutions Europe team in London. The role involves supporting debt opportunities, executing loan transactions, and conducting financial analysis. The ideal candidate will have experience in corporate banking and credit risk assessment, contributing to impactful financial solutions across Europe.

Benefits

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Medical and life insurance

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Experience in corporate and investment banking is essential.
• Knowledge of credit risk assessment is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Identify financing opportunities for clients across Europe.
• Execute loan financings from inception to completion.
• Perform financial analysis of companies and projects.

Skills

corporate and investment banking

credit risk assessment

Tools

LMA standard IG documentation

Job description

Job Summary

The role is as an Assistant Director in the Financing Solutions Europe team. The role will be responsible for supporting the origination, structuring and execution of debt opportunities (particularly in the loan market) for SCB Financing Solutions clients across the UK, EU, Turkey and CIS. Primary client types for Financing Solutions include corporates and financial institutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with senior team members to identify financing opportunities (primarily in the loan market) for existing and prospective clients across Europe, across loan products (such as term loans, RCFs, bridges)
• Prepare materials and pitches to clients on identified origination opportunities to maximise SCB involvement in loan transactions and any related business (DCM and FX/rates hedging as most frequent)
• Execute loan financings from inception to completion, which will include credit analysis, structuring, negotiation of documentation, working with Loan Syndication on distribution and the management of all internal booking processes
• Partner with global Financing Solutions colleagues to execute loan transactions for non-European subsidiaries of European based parents
• Financial/ credit analysis of financing opportunities and preparing summaries and analysis of key risks
• Execution of loan transactions for FS Europe's client base. This includes work on client pitches, offer letters, underwriting applications, information memoranda, roadshow presentations, documentation and responding to queries from banks during syndication process
• Assist in the maintenance of internal transaction databases and presentation materials, support with regular portfolio management duties including updating the team pipeline and P&L reconciliation, as well as ad-hoc tasks to support our stakeholders
• Manage deal execution process end-to-end, including creating and updating deal pipeline entries on internal systems, running deal returns on internal returns model, preparing business approval notes and other deal workstreams
• Manage credit process for financing deals, including input into and review of credit applications
• Perform financial analysis of companies/ projects, industry research
• Manage deal documentation process by coordinating with internal legal and external legal counsel
• Assist senior team members in drafting of term sheets, letters of interest
• Coordinate with various stakeholder to ensure deal execution and closing within required timeframe

Qualifications

• Previous experience in corporate and investment banking
• Prior experience of credit risk assessment preferable
• Knowledge of LMA standard IG documentation preferable

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.