Job Summary
Risk Management
As a successful Credit Analyst, you will partner the team’s two key stakeholder communities, Client Coverage and Risk, to deliver credit and product solutions. There will be emphasis on credit report writing as well as risk analysis and due diligence. Your daily job would include:
• To partner with Relationship Managers in pursuing their client strategies through proactive idea generation, support in preparing materials for client discussion and through discussion on key risk aspects. Accompanying Relationship Managers on client visits, as part of general due diligence in respect of credit analysis.
• To partner with Risk through clear presentation of credit proposal, as well as through proactive discussion of key risk aspects.
• To provide insightful, relevant, succinct and timely credit analysis of a portfolio of SCB’s clients, current or prospective.
• Documentation support on credit aspects and working with Legal Documentation Unit where applicable.
• Proactive monitoring of key entity or industry wide events and/or developments, as well as of covenants and risk triggers where applicable.
• Support CA Team Leader and others in the team on ad hoc projects, strategic initiatives and exercises aimed at improving or enhancing the team’s activities.
Key Responsibilities
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
• GAMs, RAMs, FAMs
• Risk
• Product partners
• CDD, where relevant
• Legal, Audit and Compliance, where relevant
Our Ideal Candidate
• Degree in Accountancy, Banking & Finance, Business Management, Economics or comparable.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in Commercial Banking/Corporate Banking.
• Strong analytical ability, focused on the assessment and calibration of credit risk.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to work across cultures and within a dynamic environment.
• Good understanding of financial statement analysis and banking products such as trade, lending, FX etc.
• Team player with a can-do attitude.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Credit Analysis and Verification
• Knowledge of Customers
• Addressing Customer Needs – Products and Processes
• Analytical Thinking
• Industry Knowledge
• Problem Management Process
• Account Management
• Risk Management
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.
Recruitment Assessments
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