Associate Director, Loan Syndicate Europe (London/Frankfurt)

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Specialise in Commercial Real Estate Finance (“CREF”) and Fund Finance.

• Review and assess the structure, timing, market pricing, de-risking scenarios, and syndication-related legal documents for primary underwritten loans.

• Engage actively with stakeholders, including portfolio managers and originators, to develop and execute distribution strategies for secondary loan distributions.

• Provide pricing feedback to origination teams upon request and present syndication perspectives during client pitches.

• Offer market intelligence to support structuring decisions, monitor underwritten positions, and manage portfolio positions.

• Collect essential market information to enable informed decision-making and deal structuring.

• Lead bookrunning for European transactions, ensuring stakeholders are kept informed about the syndication process.

• Assist in bookrunning transactions in other regions, consistently updating stakeholders on the syndication process.

• Develop, maintain, and manage relationships with loan investors in the CREF and Fund Finance sectors, collaborating with public-side sales colleagues for primary syndications.

• Establish and nurture relationships with investors from a secondary sales coverage perspective.

• Manage and draft syndication materials, including information memorandums, syndication term sheets, invitation letters, and NDAs.

• Handle investor Q&A on syndicated deals and work closely with the deal team to provide necessary due diligence information for investor approvals.

• Provide accurate and detailed information on syndication strategies for internal approvals at various committees, including underwriting applications, in a timely manner.

• Support the team in preparing internal performance review presentations and market updates.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional experience in Commercial Real Estate financing – preferably in a Loan Syndication capacity.

• Fluency in English.

• Proficient with MS Excel, MS Powerpoint and DebtDomain.

• Open to travel across UK and Europe from time to time as per business needs.

• Candidate can be based in London or Frankfurt.

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.