Associate Principal, China Corridor Banker

at  Standard Chartered

Job: Institutional Banking
Primary Location: Africa & Middle East-South Africa-Johannesburg
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 18/Mar/2024, 7:49:29 AM
Unposting Date: 25/Mar/2024, 6:59:00 PM

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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THE ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the origination and client relationship management for a portfolio of Corporate clients in China Corridor.
• Focus on a range of banking products and services, with emphasis on those delivering portfolio growth.
• Active engagement and high level (‘C’ suite) contacts with senior executives within clients.
• Responsible for working with the Global Account Manager (GAM), China Corridor leads, and Product Partners to deliver the SCB network to our clients.
• Maintain a strong working relationship with Credit, Legal and Compliance and other key stakeholders.
• Acts as a champion of the Bank’s brand, culture, and conduct standards.
  The Corridor banker is the strategic advisor/value add partner to the Client, accountable for the overall client group revenues, profitability, and risk acceptance (Anti-Money Laundry (AML), Client Due Diligence (CDD) and Credit). The Corridor banker is responsible for establishing and maintaining an end to end understanding of the client group structure and client needs and steering the client relationship through Account Planning.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in South Africa-China and Mauritius-China corridor; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures;

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

• Risk Management and Internal Controls
• Business - Strategy and Model
• Business - Market Knowledge
• Business - Products and Processes
• TB - Product Knowledge – Trade Services
• TB – Product Knowledge – Cash Management Services
• Sales – Prospecting
• Sales - Account Planning
• Sales - Client Pitching
• Sales - Relationship Management

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