Director, CRE Structured Finance

at  Standard Chartered

JOB SUMMARY

• The Structured Solutions vertical of Commercial Real Esatate Finance team originates, structures and syndicates debt opportunities across Commercial Real Estate (“CRE”), Corporate, and Infrastructure sectors for European and US assets and/or borrowers. The role will particularly be focused on further developing the Structured Solutions loans business across Global Banking.
• The role holder is responsible for originating, structuring and executing debt opportunities for SCB clients across Europe and US. Primary focus will be on Commercial Real Estate clients and transactions with particular responsibilities for transactions which will potentially be distributed through more structured routes, including mezzanine lending, repacks, or via public / private securitisation structures (e.g CMBS, CLO, ABS, CLN etc).

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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify financing opportunities (primarily in the loan market) for core and prospect clients across Europe and US
• Continue development of SCB European CRE lending and Structured Solutions business, originating from European and US based clients and also financing opportunities on European assets or subsidiaries for clients from other region.
• Prepare and deliver proposals to clients on identified origination scenarios to maximise SCB involvement in loan opportunity and any related business (e.g hedging / DCM)
• Originate and execute loan financings from inception to completion, which will include credit analysis, structuring, documentation, working with Financing Risk on distribution and management of internal booking processes
• Expand and develop additional distribution channels including structured and synthetic loan sales and repacks, working in cooperation with other Global Banking teams such as Debt Capital Markets or Financing Risk.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Execution of loan transactions for European and US opportunities. This includes work on client pitches, drafting offer letters and term sheets, underwriting applications, information memoranda, roadshow presentations, documentation and responding to queries from banks during syndication process.
• Developing investor base in partnership with the Loan Syndicate and Distribution team
• Supporting junior team members on financial/ credit analysis of financing opportunities, preparing summaries and analysis of key risks and preparation of credit applications
• Manage deal execution process end-to-end on originated transactions
• Negotiate deal documentation including coordinating with internal legal and external legal counsel
• Review and challenge deal due diligence information, including valuations, technical diligence and tax/ financial structuring
• Coordinate with various stakeholder to ensure deal execution and closing within required timeframe
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Be an effective agent of change and a role model within the bank
• Develop a people culture which encourages and champions change among employees in the daily workplace
• Able to share and advise on best practices and emerging developments