Director, Credit & Portfolio Management

About Standard Chartered
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The Role Responsibilities
The Credit and Portfolio Management (CPM) team focuses on reinforcing first-line ownership of risk and origination discipline, reducing P&L volatility and optimising capital and liquidity resources to support the growth of the Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) business.
The CPM Distribution team drives and develops the use of various distribution tools to recycle scarce balance sheet resources, allowing balance sheet risk and returns objectives to be met within risk appetite.
Execute & Support the CPM Distribution Agenda:

• Drive efficient and effective secondary distribution of bank exposures, including the development of diversified liquidity options.
• Work with stakeholders within CPM, Risk, and the Business to determine and execute appropriate distribution and hedging strategies, to reduce concentration risks and free up capital and liquidity capacity.
• Manage the loan sales process, including ensuring that Financing Risk and regional CPM teams are well coordinated.
• Participate in the Distribution Forum to co-ordinate distribution strategy consistently across the Bank.
• Form, lead and work with the deal team(s) for execution of transactions (e.g. CLOs or various structured funding options).
• Actively explore and advance on new types and avenues of distribution to support origination, which includes looking into ways to expand the distribution investor base.
• Manage the replenishment (communication with RMs and regional CPM teams) and optimisation of CLO hedging, working closely with BSSG deal management team.
• Provide transparency on the cost, effectiveness, and execution risk of a transaction to enable decision-making; which includes maintaining discipline on assessing comparable transactions.
• Ensure robust governance, reporting and booking of transactions to ensure benefits are taken to the extent committed.
• Ensure tight adherence to compliance standards in execution of transactions, distribution of assets and risk hedging activities.
• Monitor changes in the regulatory landscape and market structure related to distribution activities, including responding to regulatory questions and updates.

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.
• Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles : Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Balance Sheet Securitisation Group (BSSG)
• Financing Risk
• Financial Markets Structuring, Sales & Trading
• Relationship Managers
• Treasury
• Finance
• Technical Accounting
• Credit Risk Control
• Credit Policy
• Tax
• Legal
• Compliance
• Integrated Middle Office and
• Operations

Our Ideal Candidate

• Graduate qualifications (or conversions): Well recognised university degree. Masters in Finance or CFA will be advantageous.
• 10+years of relevant experience in the banking and financial services industry, including relevant experience in Credit Risk, Treasury, Structuring, Legal or Technical Accountin g. .

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