Ad, Capital Structure

**Job Summary**
- The purpose of the role is to partner Relationship Managers and Product Partners to engage priority corporate clients on capital structure insights to further origination efforts. Scope of this engagement can include covering tactical positioning with debt investors to minimise cost of capital raise, funding and liquidity considerations and managing volatility through mitigating regional risk exposure and quantifying inefficiencies amongst others. This can be directly or in conjunction with the senior members within the Capital Structure & Rating Advisory (CSRA) team.

**Strategy**
The Associate Director is responsible for supporting the implementation of the Capital Structure & Rating Advisory team’s origination, coverage and execution strategy in the APAC region.

**Business**
- The CSRA team provides thought leadership, best practice insight, corporate finance and rating advice to corporate and FI clients. Content is driven by deep understanding of client needs, sector trends and market themes to help the origination efforts.
- Support seniors in identifying client’s financial needs and solutions
- Prepare under senior’s supervision client ready materials around capital structure optimisation, ratings, acquisition financing, working capital management, or other relevant corporate finance topics
- Support origination and execution of key rating advisory mandates
- Develop sector specific content focussed around topical financial and credit rating trends
- Stay abreast of news flow for clients, sectors and rating agencies methodologies
- Engage with peers in the bank to complete client’s presentations
- Assist seniors in the team in actively engaging with clients, establishing a role as a trusted partner / thought leader in respect of areas of team competence.
- Support seniors in the preparation of internal materials related to the team
- The coaching and support of others in the team, and beyond where appropriate

**Processes**
- Engagement tracker & pipeline file and CSRA client coverage list kept up to date
- Support with origination pipeline and client selection and report appropriately and timely to Regional Head
- Help to maintain ratings advisory pipeline and deal team
- Ensure Conflict of Interest register remains updated

**Key Responsibilities**

**People & Talent**
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values

**Risk Management**- Take the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational and ethical matters, not only responding to requests for advice, but where appropriate taking the initiative in volunteering advice the need for which may not have been appreciated.

**Governance**
- Maintain a current catalogue of work in progress and completed work, using team-agreed tools and approaches.

**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.

**Key stakeholders**
- Global Account Managers and Relationship Managers
- Product Partners - Global Credit Markets, Financial Markets, Transaction Banking
- Industries teams
- Economists
- Risk Officers External
- Corporate & Institutional clients
- Rating agencies
- Other conference and media providers
- Previous experience of a similar role, in a leading commercial and/or investment banking environment. To include: experience of addressing capital structure and rating relevant topics with corporate clients from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint
- 5 + years of relevant experience and understanding of investment and commercial banking organisational design and a demonstrated ability to ‘navigate’ to achieve client delivery in a safe and sound manner
- Familiarity with rating agency methodologies. Prior experience in rating agencies considered a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to work across cultures and within a dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to appropriately ‘manage’ demands from peers and superiors
- Genuine team-based approach to making the organisation work for the business.
- Comfortable with an advisory/structuring role with significant client contact

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Origination GB - Business Markets
- Origination GB - Cross-Selling
- Origination GB - Financial Statement Analysis
- Origination GB - Knowledge of Customers
- Origination GB - Knowledge of Product Line
- Origination GB - Communicating Complex Concepts
- Origination GB - Understanding Customer Needs
- Origination GB - Analytical Th