Associate Director, Project Export Finance, Dubai

at  Standard Chartered

Job: Financial Markets
Primary Location: Africa & Middle East-United Arab Emirates-Dubai
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 29/Mar/2024, 3:21:59 AM
Unposting Date: 12/Apr/2024, 5:59:00 PM

EDUCATION

• Minimum a four yeas bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or equivalent.

ABOUT STANDARD CHARTERED

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy*

• Participate in both origination and execution of Project Finance transactions, from the pitch phase through to closing
• Support the origination and execution of project finance advisory and debt arranging transactions including detailed financial analysis, due diligence, and a careful review of project and finance documentation
• Support the preparation of presentation materials for use in client meetings and internal stakeholder, covering topics such as financing markets, sector trends, strategic alternatives, and general project finance structures etc.
• Prepare internal credit applications and business memos along with all supporting documents for various purposes including procuring the required approvals for each transaction
• Develop financial models and prepare associated presentations under financial advisory transactions to be used by the clients and other stake holders for project evaluation
• Evaluate detailed financial models under various operating scenarios and analyze the impacts of different sensitivities, capital structures, and potential financing transactions
• Perform financial analysis of projects based on company information, financial model, DD reports, and other information sources
• Keep an up-to-date knowledge of each of the assigned transaction including maintaining sufficient records on file to enable an audit or regulatory reviews
• Maintain up to date knowledge on clients and projects
• Research and analysis of markets and industries
• Develop and maintain strong relationship with clients’ transaction level teams
• Coordinate efforts with deal team members across the Bank
• Involved in day-to-day project management and execution support
• Complete all required credit and regulatory examinations
• Assist the portfolio management team with the ongoing monitoring of the allotted project finance transactions, highlight any potential risk issues, and help coordinate any discussions with the client and other lenders relevant to the transaction

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.
• Lead the [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *

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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long ter