Analyst, Structured Solutions Development (Structured Trade Transactions), MEA

Job Summary

Strategy and Origination

• Understand clients' business needs, footprints, buying centres, decision makers, trade products, and their applicability to client needs.
• Support account plan commitments and help transactors originate and scope opportunities through a consultative approach.
• Assist with identifying client needs, developing solutions, and generating new-to-bank business.

Structuring and Negotiation

• Develop transaction structures and prepare pitch books and RFP responses for client financing needs.
• Prepare and negotiate term sheets and vet underlying commercial contracts with transactors.
• Interface with in-house legal and external counsel to ensure documentation is robust and aligned with bank requirements.
• Coordinate stakeholders to resolve operational, regulatory, compliance, accounting, and tax issues.

Execution and Delivery

• Structure solutions for distribution or sell-down of assets through ECAs, credit insurance, primary market distribution, or other structures.
• Run pricing calculators and support transaction pricing and structuring fees based on risk, solution, and effort.
• Understand product and system operations and coordinate with delivery teams to ensure smooth drawdowns.

Risk and Governance

• Prepare pre-screening and credit memos to communicate deal structures, risks, and revenue economics.
• Ensure solutions align with bank policies, identify deviations, and support discussions with relationship management and credit teams.
• Monitor key risk triggers, track BCA renewals, maintain management information, and prepare senior management reports.
• Engage stakeholders to support the origination agenda and maintain compliance with laws, regulations, and the Group Code of Conduct.

Experience and Qualifications

• Broad banking experience with exposure to clients in Africa and/or the Middle East.
• Knowledge of trade products and basic structured trade concepts.
• Proven ability to independently manage opportunities and transaction workstreams.
• Ability to lead discussions with relationship management, credit, CRC, operations, and other internal stakeholders.
• Good credit understanding and experience with credit analysis and BCA writing for complex clients.
• Exposure to ECA, insurance, syndications, risk participation, and true sale transactions is beneficial.
• CCC certification is listed as beneficial knowledge.

Skills and Behaviours

• Risk management, analytical capability, commercial awareness, influencing, stakeholder engagement, and effective written and spoken communication.
• Ability to identify client needs, structure solutions, challenge transaction assumptions, understand business risks, and work within acceptable risk levels.
• Ability to work independently, manage change, follow through on results, and collaborate in global, cross-cultural, multi-function, or matrixed teams.

About Standard Chartered

What We Offer

• The bank describes competitive salary and benefits, retirement savings, medical and life insurance, leave programs, flexible working options, wellbeing support, and learning opportunities.
• The organization states that it promotes an inclusive and values-driven workplace across teams, functions, and geographies.