Associate, Leveraged

Job ID: 39156

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 8 Sept 2025

**Job Summary**- You’ll be accountable for delivering well-structured, returns accretive, risk-optimal financing solutions, to our clients. You'll have a strong understanding of primary credit markets, key industry developments within the business line you’re supporting, fundamentals of valuation and risk assessment and adept at negotiating, communicating and influencing stakeholders in decision making.**About the Markets team**
Our Markets team provides clients with risk management, financing and investment expertise through the provision of bespoke solutions across asset classes. They do this by building trusted relationships across industries and sectors.**About Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)**
For more than 170 years we’ve support clients with their transaction banking, financial markets, corporate finance and borrowing needs and provide solutions to nearly 20,000 clients in the world’s fastest-growing economies and most active trade corridors.**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide outstanding client experiences.
- Structure competitive solutions that meet financing risk standards.
- Provide valuation, financial, credit analysis and pricing for financing solutions.
- Build qualified, diverse pipelines that realise short-term revenue goals while building for the future, balancing between large strategic mandates and less complex deals.
- Build and expand our network to reach new clients and sales opportunities.
- Build a cross functional Deals team with representation from Sales, Implementation and Structuring, agreeing priorities and mandates.
- Partner with stakeholders across Banking and Coverage, Capital Markets, Credit Trading, Loan Origination and Trading, to identify target clients for unique credit services.
- Workshop solutions with senior risk and portfolio management stakeholders to ensure solutions are risk optimal and returns accretive.
- 1+ years of leveraged/specialised finance/ private credit experience, ideally covering the ASEAN region.
- Familiarity with debt instruments used across the capital structure, specifically in the context of financial sponsors and levered credits
- Strong orientation for credit analysis and risk management of loan portfolio
- Hands-on execution experience in running the end-to-end deal life cycle process (from deal origination to documentation)
- Knowledge of structuring and target investor spectrum for structured/levered financings/private credit
- Deal execution experience across jurisdictions in ASEAN, and associated knowledge of regulatory/legal framework
- Strong financial modelling skills, debt structuring considerations, documentation

Role Specific Technical Competencies- Uses business acumen, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Product knowledge - Markets and Transaction Banking.
- Debt origination.
- Partnership management.
- Credit risk.
- Lean underwriting.
- Financial analysis.
- Works effectively with ambiguity, in a dynamic environment.

**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 of