Associate Director, Lending Documentation Unit (New York)

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Job Summary

This position within the Lending Documentation Unit, is primarily to support the various business units for the Non-Standard Documentation / Standard Documentation process in accordance with the Credit Documentation Process - General Roles and Responsibilities and any further guidance from the Global Head, LDU.

Key Responsibilities

• Being a business partner to and independent guardian of the business, achieving the right balance.
• Supporting the implementation of the CM target operating model for LDU in the region
• Identifying process improvement initiatives / opportunities to drive efficiency across LDU
• Ensuring that Legal and LDU work in an integrated fashion.
• Working closely with LDU in other centres to reduce duplicative work and ensure logical allocation of work (proposing exceptions to R&R if necessary).
• Ensuring that hand offs between CM Client Delivery teams and LDU are smooth and efficient.
• Resolving all roadblocks and any points requiring clarity, in collaborative fashion between LDU centres or between Legal and LDU or LDU and CM, Client Delivery teams, preferably without involving the business as a go between

Processes

Non-Standard Documentation Process:

• Reviewing/checking bespoke/ externally prepared documentation for complex or syndicated transactions. '
• Ensuring the financing structure and documentation is in compliance with the terms and spirit of the relevant credit approval and the Bank's policies and procedures (including Operational Risk).
• Working closely with internal legal counsel and engaging and liaising with external counsel where required.
• Reviewing and confirming satisfaction of all required documentation, policy requirements and approvals via formal handover confirmation to the CM Client Delivery team for the authorisation of client limits.

Standard Documentation Process:

• Drafting and negotiation of contractual, security and parental support documentation overing uncommitted and committed bilateral facilities in line with credit approvals.
• Drafting and negotiating local and global guarantees within region and for the wider Bank network
• Ensuring the financing structure and documentation is in compliance with the terms and spirit of the relevant credit approval and the Bank's policies and procedures (including Operational Risk).
• Setting and collating all condition precedent/subsequent documentation.
• Engaging external counsel in relation to capacity and authority opinions and ensuring the review and sign of all legal opinions where required.
• Drafting corporate resolutions / reviewing constitutional documentation.
• Reviewing and confirming satisfaction of all required documentation, policy requirements and approvals via formal handover confirmation to the CM Client Delivery team for the authorisation of client limits.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree/Para Legal
• Training: Minimum 5 Years Work Experience in a similar role within Financial Servies and/or Legal/Paralegal experience

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 87,400 USD to 131,100 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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