Associate Director, Transaction Management Group

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank seeks a motivated Transaction Manager to build its loan agency business, focusing on client service and relationship management. Key responsibilities include negotiating transaction documentation, supporting onboarding processes, and coordinating with stakeholders. The role offers competitive benefits and a commitment to inclusivity and professional development.

Benefits

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Time-off inclusive of parental leave and sabbaticals

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Qualifications

• Substantial cash, loan agency and/or transaction management experience.
• Experience in facility documentation review and negotiation.
• Comfortable working independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate transaction banking documentation for onboarding.
• Facilitate smooth onboarding experience for new legal transactions.
• Manage relationships within the portfolio to provide client service.

Skills

Loan agency experience

Transaction management

Negotiation skills

Strong communication

Organizational skills

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for a motivated Transaction Manager to help build a sustainable and growing loan agency business for our Cash Products and take responsibility for driving exceptional client service and building long lasting client relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and negotiation of transaction banking documentation from an Escrow Agent and Account Bank perspective at the point of onboarding and the duration of the credit.
• Work with deal arrangers, Lender’s and internal parties to ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new/amended legal transactions.
• Ensuring all operational aspects of the portfolio are managed effectively via creation/amendment of a Deal Summary.
• Coordinate with Cash Ops for static data set up.
• Participation in deal handover meeting with the Cash Ops team.
• Coordinate waiver/amendment requests between Borrowers and Lenders.
• Provide guidance and support to internal and external business partners, as well as the operations team.
• Collaborate with Lender’s counsel for onboarding/Event of Default management.
• Manage relationships within the portfolio (Borrower, Lender, internal) to provide an excellent level of client service.
• Take a key role as a senior SME and have the necessary technical skills to deliver a superior service to, and build relationships with, stakeholders; help manage the workflows across the team, providing guidance, sharing knowledge, and mentoring the less experienced members of the team.
• Perform quality assurance on new deal set up and amendments.
• Includes Syndications, Project Finance, Islamic, Transportation.

Qualifications

• Substantial cash, loan agency and/or transaction management experience.
• Experience in facility documentation review and negotiation.
• Experience in building relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Comfort in working independently as well as within a team.
• Strong communication, planning and organisational skills.
• Excellent and clear communication skills.
• Motivated and driven.

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.