Director, Loan Syndicate, Americas (New York)

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Job Summary

Director, Loan Syndicate, Americas, is responsible for developing and managing the syndicate and distribution capabilities of Loan Syndicate in the Americas as part of the implementation of the global Loan Syndicate strategy. This role involves actively participating in determining the Syndicate & Portfolio Management strategy, with a focus on subscription lines distribution. Other industry verticals include Commercial Real Estate, Leverage & Acquisition, and Project Finance. Aims to maximize shareholder value, identify and create areas of competitive advantage, and align with the overall strategic direction of Syndicate & Portfolio Management and Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB). The Director will ensure the successful execution of syndication transactions from origination to closing, while maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders and investors.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing and managing the syndicate and distribution capabilities of Loan Syndicate in the Americas as part of the implementation of the global Loan Syndicate strategy.
• Responsible for underwriting, syndication and distribution of syndicated loans in the Americas within Fund Finance.
• Actively participate in determining Syndicate & Portfolio Management strategy, which aims to maximise shareholder value, identifies, and creates areas of competitive advantage.
• Recommending underwritings, and fair valuing underwriting positions in the Americas
• Reviewing structure, timing, pricing to market, and executing the distribution strategies of primary syndicated loans in the Americas
• Develop and manage distribution channels to bank and non-bank investors
• Develop and maintain relationships with loan investors
• Providing loan market intelligence to Global Banking product Origination Verticals in the Americas to enable origination to distribute
• Distribution of secondary loans for the Bank alongside Portfolio Asset Management team.
• Manage all distribution processes, ensuring compliance with applicable internal policies, and external laws and regulations, and operating within risk tolerance and risk appetite.
• Drive continuous improvement of the operational efficiency and effectiveness of processes to increase the consistency of global systems and processes.
• Responsible for production and distribution of marketing materials and communications to investors and clients in relation to Loan Syndicate products.

• Ensures that syndication and distribution is carried out within the Group's risk appetite and reputational and credit risks are appropriately managed in conjunction with direct reports and other stakeholders
• Ensure any audit and compliance issues are resolved in a timely manner
• Ensure that risk management matters are brought to my attention are subject to direct remedial action and/or escalated, where appropriate to relevant risk committee.

Skills and Experience

• Cross Selling
• Customer Behaviour and Preferences
• Addressing Client Needs
• Client Relationship Management
• Investment Credit Risk
• Knowledge of Loan Underwriting (Subscription Facility, NAV Lines, Hybrid Lines)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field (preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in loan syndication, or a related field, with a proven track record of successful transactions.
• Strong understanding of loan markets, syndication processes, and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple transactions and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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 200,000 USD to 280,000 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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