Associate Director, US Supply Chain Finance Specialist (SCFS) (New York)

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Job Summary

The Supply Chain Finance (SCF) Specialist role supports the efficient operation, growth and sustainability of SCF solutions across the region. The role partners closely with internal stakeholders and clients to:
• onboard new facilities and counterparties,
• manage ongoing portfolios, and
• ensure effective risk, compliance, and operational controls.
The incumbent plays a key role across implementation, portfolio management, counterparty enrolment, utilisation optimisation, and continuous process improvement.

Strategy
• Manage the SCF product agenda across the region through implementation and ongoing portfolio oversight.
• Contribute to regional Supply Chain Finance strategy, including process enhancement/ streamlining and digitisation initiatives.
• Ensure efficient delivery of SCF programs within a strong risk and control framework.

Business
• Partner with country stakeholders to grow the Supply Chain Finance business.
• Work with Coverage, Operations and Implementation teams to ensure smooth program launch.
• Maintain regular engagement with clients and counterparties to identify risks and opportunities.
• Support deal pitches, RFPs, and programme marketing initiatives.
• Drive programme utilisation, revenue realisation, and identify cross-sell opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Processes
• Manage a portfolio of SCF programmes, through efficient account handling and effective risk management.
• Oversee supplier onboarding with appropriate due diligence and timely turnaround.
• Monitor performance, utilisation, excesses, and overdue positions, escalating risks as required.
• Participate in portfolio review meetings.
• Leverage digital tools to enhance supplier onboarding and experience.
• Ensure adherence to internal policies, PPG/CA requirements, and regulatory standards.

Risk Management
• Proactively manage credit, operational, reputational, and compliance risks.
• Maintain robust controls to meet R&C, audit and regulatory expectations.
• Comply fully with AML, sanctions, and financial crime prevention requirements.

People & Talent
• Share knowledge and best practices with team members.
• Act as a role model in demonstrating the Bank's values.
• Develop a personal learning plan aligned with role requirements.

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, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

• Internal Resource Coordination
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Process Management
• Account Management
• Addressing Customer Needs
• Cross-Selling
• Problem Management Process
• Surveillance (including Screening and Monitoring)

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in Supply Chain Finance
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Experience of participating in/leading change projects and process management
• Strong communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability and knowledge to articulate Supplier Chain Finance program benefits (preferable)
Languages Fluency in 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 100,000 USD to 150,000 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 Visit our careers website

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