Executive Director, Fund Finance

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join Standard Chartered as an Executive Director, Fund Finance. This pivotal role, based in our New York office, offers an excellent opportunity to steer and expand our fund finance operations, ensuring alignment with global standards while responding to regional market dynamics. 

The successful candidate will bring a deep understanding of fund finance structures and services, coupled with strong stakeholder management capabilities. You will be responsible for promoting best practices, upholding compliance, and fostering innovation within the team.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    To maximize customer profitability from FI relationships, originate, lead, structure, execute and distribute fund finance transactions including but not limited to (i) Fund level subscription financing (ii) Fund level NAV financing (iii) GP financing. 
•    Establish and maintain governance and oversight of the Global Fund Finance book. 

Business
Responsible for:
•    Achieve the quantitative and qualitative performance objectives set for the fund finance business. 
•    Originate, lead, structure Fund Finance transactions inclusive of Subscription Finance, NAV, Hybrid and GP/Management Company facilities. 
•    Cultivate client relationships & prospect new financing opportunities through premier product & solution offering.
•    Lead various strategic programs to achieve capital and balance sheet efficiency. 
•    Develop new product and new structures to meet client needs and market trends.
•    Represent SCB Fund Finance in the marketplace; and has an active role in the Fund Finance Association, which includes key clients, banks, legal counsel, etc.
•    Establish and develop relationships with key stakeholders and relevant segment and product partners to efficiently and effectively deliver the product to our clients; maximize return by cross selling to other product groups.

Qualifications

•    11+ years of experience in commercial banking
•    4+ years of fund finance industry experience
•    Strong analytical, quantitative and credit underwriting skills
•    Broad financing and capital markets product expertise, and a demonstrated ability to deliver SCB products to FI clients
•    Experience in reading, negotiating, and interpreting legal agreements, knowledge of security law in multiple jurisdictions.
•    Strong market knowledge in fund finance market

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 wor