Director, Structuring

Standard Chartered Bank; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Learning opportunities

Wellbeing program

Competitive salary

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore seeks a senior structuring professional to lead cross-asset solutions for Corporates, Investors and Banks. You will originate ideas, craft bespoke hedging, financing and yield-enhancement structures, and work with trading and sales to grow client platforms.

The role emphasizes risk governance, compliance, and building regional capabilities while partnering with product heads and country heads to deliver client-focused solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a Structuring, Trading or Solutions Sales role.
• Experience growing Structured Credit and Macro Derivative business.
• Ability to manage end-to-end deal flow (pitch, originate, execute, document, monitor).
• Strong collaboration with CIB, FM product and risk teams.

Responsibilities

• Grow the structured credit and macro derivative business regionally with product heads and country heads.
• Lead deal origination and end-to-end execution for financing transactions.
• Build partnerships with risk, governance, and control committees to ensure compliant execution.
• Drive service excellence and client-centric cross-asset guidance.

Job description

Job Summary

Responsible for Structuring business across Corporates, Investors and Banks segments. Actively identify client needs, build platforms, and provide structured solutions (across hedging, risk management, financing and yield enhancement) to SCB clients across asset classes (Rates, FX, Credit and Equity). Help originate new business and grow product capabilities by partnering with stakeholders in trading and sales.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Work with respective Product Heads, Sales Heads and in-country Heads of Financial Markets to help grow the structured credit business as well as macro derivative business in India in line with SCB’s overall strategy
• Provide inputs for the Regional Credit Structuring team and Regional Macro structuring team to drive service excellence via robust product support, bespoke solutions and strategic cross-asset guidance
• Ensure that the Financial Markets structured credit and structured macro product suite is delivered regionally with demonstrable Client focus in support of our objective to become core bank to our clients

Business

• Help build Product and Client Structuring business regionally and ensure the continuing growth and stability of the business
• Work with respective FM Product teams and relevant Regional/Country Heads, identify the initiatives needed to grow the Structuring business on a short, medium and long-term basis
• Help to build good working partnerships between CIB teams, Product teams and FM sales teams in the region in order to provide a seamless and coordinated interface to our Clients in delivering our structured products and services
• Work in partnership with stakeholders to deliver new product capabilities to enhance efficiency and expansion of the business

Processes

• Manage business and risk process issues by interacting (where required) with representatives on various risk, governance and control committees
• Actively support deal origination in India working in conjunction with sales and coverage teams to generate ideas and pitch to clients
• Build effective working relationships with key internal stakeholders in CIB.

People and Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management/Risk Governance

• Enforce a culture of risk management and ensure that the teams comply with the risk management processes in place
• Provide impartial guidance of matters of product / client appropriateness and suitability.
• Discourage transactions with unmanageable market risk profiles.
• Ensure that adequate and appropriate systems and controls are in place to comply with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those governing all Risk types, Compliance, Technology and Operations, Finance and Reputation
• Escalate any risk issues and concentrations. Where appropriate, carry out remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting.
• Protect the stability, long-term sustainability and reputation of the Bank

Regulatory and 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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles including but not limited to Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance etc
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Sales, Trading, Coverage and Control functions

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values globally across the team;
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures;

Our Ideal Candidate

• 7+ years of experience in a Structuring, Trading or Solutions Sales role
• Work with respective Product Heads, Sales Heads and in-country Head of Markets to grow the Structured Credit business in line with SCB’s overall market strategy in the Investors, Banks and Corporate Client space, ensuring the continuing growth and stability of the business
• Ensure that the Markets structured credit product suite is delivered with demonstrable Client focus in support of our objective to become core bank to our Clients
• Drive service excellence via robust product support, bespoke solutions and strategic guidance
• Manage full deal flow (pitch, originate, execution, documentation and monitoring) for financing transactions financing against illiquid and liquid financial collateral
• Work in partnership with stakeholders to deliver new product capabilities to enhance efficiency and expansion of the business
• Ensure that adequate and appropriate systems and controls are in place to comply with Group and Business policies, procedures, standards and codes, including those governing all Risk types, Compliance, Technology and Operations, Finance and Reputation
• 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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles including but not limited to Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance etc

Role Specific Technical Skills and Competencies

• Financial Risk Management
• Quantitative Techniques
• Securities Laws and Regulations (SLR) Compliance
• Portfolio Management
• Market Risk

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.

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