Standard Chartered
Associate, Loans & Agency
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Job Summary
Join our Loans and Agency team and play a critical role in supporting complex syndicated loan transactions across their lifecycle. As an Associate, Loans and Agency, you will act as a key point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders, ensuring the seamless execution of new deals, amendments, repayments, and ongoing portfolio management activities.
This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of corporate lending operations, collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders across the bank while driving operational excellence, mitigating risk, and delivering outstanding client service. You will contribute to strategic initiatives that improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and enhance the overall client experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of syndicated loan and agency transactions throughout their lifecycle.
- Take ownership of new transactions, including deal onboarding, amendments, repayments, and transaction maintenance.
- Serve as a trusted point of contact for clients, lenders, and internal stakeholders.
- Respond to client and stakeholder queries in a timely and professional manner, escalating issues where appropriate.
- Act as a subject matter expert on complex transactions and provide guidance to stakeholders.
- Drive operational efficiency through continuous improvement initiatives and process enhancements.
- Manage daily workflows to ensure transactions are processed accurately and within agreed service levels.
- Support the implementation of automation, process optimisation, and risk reduction initiatives.
- Contribute to management information reporting and operational performance tracking.
- Build strong partnerships across Front Office, Transaction Management Group, Operations teams, and support functions.
- Foster effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth transaction execution.
- Collaborate across teams to resolve issues and improve service delivery.
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Skills And Experience
Essential Experience
- Experience in corporate lending, syndicated loans, agency services, banking operations, or a related financial services environment.
- Understanding of loan lifecycle events, transaction processing, and operational controls.
- Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
- Proven ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
Key Skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Ability to analyse issues, identify solutions, and make sound decisions.
- Customer-focused mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional service.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Resilience and ability to perform effectively under pressure.
- Collaborative approach with the confidence to challenge constructively and drive positive outcomes.
Personal Attributes
- Action-oriented with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Strong team player who builds meaningful partnerships across functions.
- Comfortable navigating change and managing ambiguity.
- Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and sound judgement.
- Committed to continuous learning and self-development.
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.
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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.
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