Associate, Capital Structure & Rating Advisory, Financial Institutions

Job ID: 35345

Location: London, GB

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 21 Jul 2025

Job Summary
The purpose of the role is to work closely with the senior members of Capital Structure & Rating Advisory (CSRA) team and partner with Relationship Managers and Product Partners to engage financial institutions (FI) clients on capital structure and rating 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 balance sheet management.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
The Associate is responsible for supporting the implementation of the FI Capital Structure & Rating Advisory team’s origination, coverage and execution strategy.
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.
Prepare financial models to simulate specific client situations and scenarios
Maintain financial databases for sectors and clients
Conduct detailed research on specific sectors, clients, and key financial and strategic themes
Form a good understanding of the bank’s products and offerings
Develop a basic understanding of ratings methodologies
Support seniors in the preparation of client facing materials
Processes
Internal databases (WIP, COOL list) kept up to date
Help to maintain ratings advisory pipeline and deal team
Ensure Conflict of Interest register remains updated
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
Internal
Global Account Managers and Relationship Managers
Product Partners - Global Credit Markets, Financial Markets, Transaction Banking
Economists
Risk Officers
External
Corporate & Institutional clients
Rating agencies
Other conference and media providers
Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for Good and Group’s brand and values in CSRA; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Qualifications
Good understanding of financial institutions' (FI) analysis of financial statements, along with an awareness of banking regulations and the methodologies employed by rating agencies.
Previous experience of a similar role, in a leading investment banking and/or rating agency environment. To include: experience of addressing capital structure and rating relevant topics with financial institutions clients from both a practical and a theoretical standpoint
Client-oriented mindset and being comfortable with an advisory/structuring role with significant client contact
Proficient use of Excel, PowerPoint, data analysis and research tools and methods
Business degree and/or CFA qualification (or progress towards achieving it) desirable
Basic understanding of corporate and/or investment banking organisational design and a demonstrated ability to ‘navigate’ to achieve client delivery in a safe and sound manner
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.
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 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.