Director, Structuring (New York)

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Job Summary

Grow the Structuring business in the Americas (North America and LATAM) through value added solutions (bespoke hedging, investment and financing) to corporate, BBD, and Investor clients

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Work with respective Product Heads, Sales Heads and in-country Heads of Markets to help grow the structured credit business in line with SCB's overall strategy
• Drive structured business covering complex or bespoke investment/financing products across clients in Americas
• Work in close collaboration with client coverage teams and various product partners to design bespoke solutions based the client's situation and objectives
• Provide inputs for the regional Americas and Global Structuring team to share product/client experience
• Drive service excellence via robust product support, bespoke solutions and strategic cross-asset guidance

Business
• A structurer needs to deliver practical and viable solutions, within several objectives and constraints, conciliating among various stakeholders:
• Clients (economic objectives, hedging policies, risk appetite, ...)
• Bank's resources (Credit limits, balance sheet returns, liquidity availability, reputational risk, ...)
• Markets and products (trading limits, market liquidity, available products and payoffs, ...)
• Regulatory (Legal and compliance, tax, accounting, ...)
• Work with respective FM Product teams and relevant Regional/Country Heads, identify the initiatives needed to grow the Credit Structuring business on a short, medium and long-term basis
• Work in partnership with stakeholders to deliver new product capabilities to enhance efficiency and expansion of the business
• Drive structured transactions from idea origination to deal execution
• Demonstrate excellent soft skills including deal communications, idea sharing, stakeholders liaison and strong team play
• Co-operate on global initiatives and share information and ideas with sale and structuring
• Deliver training and education on structured products to internal and external audiences

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree
• Training: 7-9 years' experience in credit structuring, exposure to Europe and Americas regions, FM products knowledge
• Licenses: Series 7 and 63
• Membership: FINRA
• Certifications: DODD FRANK, SEC AP
• Languages: English

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 175000 USD to 325000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations

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