Executive Director Structured Solutions (Singapore, UK)

Standard Chartered Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking an Executive Director for Structured Solutions based in Singapore. The role involves leading a team to deliver bespoke trade finance solutions while ensuring compliance and managing risks. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in securitisation and supplier finance, alongside advanced leadership capabilities in a multi-cultural setting.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in securitisation and supplier finance transactions.
• Led complex bespoke transactions for 3+ years.
• Ability to work across multiple regions with large clients.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the global SSD strategy and its execution.
• Identify opportunities within industries to create solutions.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and policies.

Skills

Securitisation

Receivables purchase

Supplier finance transactions

Risk analysis

Presentation skills

Multi-cultural experience

Education

Core Credit and Risk Management Certification

Job description

Executive Director Structured Solutions (Singapore, UK)

Job Summary

This role could be based in Singapore and UK. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

This role involves working in the Structured Solutions Development team (SSD), a team within TB Sales, responsible for bespoke trade finance solutions to meet client needs. The team consults with clients, provides industry thought leadership, and applies specialist knowledge to drive origination, then lead with structuring and negotiation of solutions. You are responsible for delivering the revenue budget for your assigned sector/region.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• As a core and senior member of the team, contribute actively to the global SSD strategy and plan for successful execution of the strategy in the region.
• Create a uniform identity and experience for our clients in the industry and account for the regional nuances.

Business

Solutions Development & Delivery

• Based on the broader understanding of industry and solution, identify opportunities or situations within an industry or client. Engage consultatively to create optionality and solutions for clients and convert them into successful deals which help solve for client need.

Financial Management – Product P/L Management

• Deliver budget, through active management of:
• Revenue (existing and new revenue streams) [FY 2025 $ M]
• No of deals executed / No of unique clients for which deals executed
• No of proactive client pitches
• Returns (i.e. product profitability) [ROE / RORWA] at a deal or client level.

People & Talent

Demonstrate leadership in the team by providing expert guidance to the Director level transactors, in identifying opportunities/solutions for clients, mitigating risks and articulating effectively to risk teams, ensuring process risk issues are identified and minimised.

Risk Management

• Articulate to the client, risk and other relevant teams how a proposed solution meets client needs, enabling it to be more efficient, grow and scale its business, mitigate its risks and help in wider investor participation where required.
• Has comprehensive or wide knowledge of legal aspects linked to an instrument, debt, security in the relevant jurisdictions; local regulations and initiatives of local industry bodies to stay ahead of regulatory change and/or how it affects the solutions.
• Takes the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational, and ethical matters by providing proactive advice to clients and sales teams.
• Ensures adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations.
• Ensure appropriate inputs are incorporated in credit memo / term sheet / pre-screening review, etc.
• Actively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters for the region and delivery mechanisms relevant for the industry globally, in a timely manner.

Governance

• Demonstrate accountability for all deal related risks by ensuring the right governance standards are applied and provide guidance even when there is ambiguity.
• Identify and mitigate deal level operational, credit, regulatory, legal, fraud risks in the processes via a business conduct lens.
• Ensure relevant approvals (including compliance with deal review guidelines) for a transaction or client engagement are sought and can be produced for an audit review at any point in time.
• Takes the lead to ensure compliance, AML and FCC risk and applies appropriate risk mitigation processes.

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 all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Responsible to meet the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values; perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Key Stakeholders

SSD Global Industry lead, Relationship managers and TB sales teams and their country and regional heads, Trade/Cash Product Cluster Head, CCO/SCO Risk, Heads of Legal and CFC.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Have worked across multiple regions and with large clients
• 15+ years of experience in securitisation, receivables purchase and supplier finance transactions
• Have led or delivered complex/bespoke transactions for 3+ years of strong experience in delivering complex solutions (including syndicated deals, big distributor finance and receivables programs and structured trade finance transactions) and demonstrate industry and transactional leadership skills.
• Understands nuances of working with third party platforms/fintechs, structures and risks involved
• Strong risk analysis skills
• Articulation and brevity while knowing the details is a key
• Multi-cultural and geography experience is a positive
• Ability to thematise and presentation skills

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Consulting Proposals
• Knowledge of Product Line
• Legal Analysis
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Credit Analysis and Verification
• International Trade
• Industry knowledge
• Structured trade and commodity Financing

Qualification

• Core Credit and Risk Management Certification completed or to be completed within 12 months of joining the team.

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.

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Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Banking

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