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Our business functions
Where ambition meets impact
Discover careers in Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB)
When you’re part of the Corporate and Investment Banking team at Standard Chartered Bank, it gives you the opportunity to be more.
You get to be more innovative, empowered and impactful and take your career as far as you want it to go. This is a place where ambition meets impact which means you will have plenty of opportunities to work on challenging projects, learn new skills and make a meaningful difference to the world.
Our teams
For more than 170 years, we’ve been providing world-class financing, investment, treasury and strategic advisory services to our clients. We’ve supported their growth, where and when it matters most. We’re the preferred banking partner to over 5,000 clients, covering large corporates, financial institutions, governments, small and medium-sized enterprises and investors, facilitating global trade, capital and investment flows for them around the world.
About us
We’re a team of world-class subject matter experts and specialists who develop, implement and manage a wide range of products and solutions including cash management, international trade services, supply-chain finance, working capital and treasury advisory & structuring.
We help our clients manage their daily cash, trade and working capital operations through digitally enabled solutions and data that power their decisions and drive profitability. Here is where ambition meets impact – come build the future of banking with us.
“I made the conscious decision to never ask the team to do anything that I wasn’t willing to do myself.”
Kathleen Huang-Hernandez
Director, Transactional Banking
Aged only 26, Kathleen was unexpectedly dropped into the role of team management but the skills she learnt then have influenced her ever since.
Roles in Transaction Banking
Cash
Product Manager
Cash is the lifeblood of any business. Our Cash Product managers thrive on collaborating with Sales, Relationship Management, Operations and Technology teams to deliver and manage innovative management solutions that meet our clients’ needs.
Cash Product Managers also typically enjoy driving training, commercialisation and end-to-end product performance.
Trade and Working Capital
Product Manager
Trade makes the world go round and working capital keeps it going. You’ll develop and manage world-class solutions that offer our clients a strategic competitive advantage. You’ll work with teams across the Bank to meet the needs of clients and ensure there is training, commercialisation and end-to-end product performance.
What we do
At Standard Chartered, we want to become the world’s leading digital banking platform for our corporate clients, by creating a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future for clients and global communities through technology, data and digital.
Here is where ambition meets impact – come build the future of banking with us.
Digital channels and data analytics
Roles in data analysis and digital channels
Data Analysts
What do Netflix, Airbnb and Spotify have in common? They all use data to build the best experiences for their customers.
If you love helping organisations make better business decisions through interpreting diverse sets of data, let’s have a conversation.
Data Scientists
Long-term research and prediction. Insights that design new products and anticipates future customer needs. We’re looking for brilliant minds who can find meaning in structured and unstructured data, while having enough business domain expertise to translate commercial goals into data-based deliverables that solve the world’s most complex challenges.
Channel Managers
You’re excited about customers and believe that digital channels should deliver memorable experiences! You are the gatekeeper in ensuring our digital channels of distribution, payments and settlements are secure and efficient, so that clients enjoy using our products and services globally.
Where ambition meets impact
We’re differentiated by our extensive global footprint with a presence in 52 of the world’s most dynamic markets and supported by our diversified product expertise.
With an intimate appreciation of the markets we’re present in, and unrivalled knowledge of the emerging trade and investment corridors of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, we offer our clients risk management, financing and investment expertise, through bespoke solutions across asset classes and building trusted relationships in various industries and sectors. Here is where ambition meets impact – come build the future of banking with us.
“When I’m passionate about something, I won’t let it go.”
Sonia Silva
Team Head, Financial Markets
We believe every moment is an opportunity to be inclusive. We’re celebrating some of the women who are making a difference to who we are, and the way we work.
Roles in Financial Markets
Origination
As a Global Credit Markets Originator, you help our clients access the loan and bond markets with financing needs. You interact daily with senior transactors, relationship managers, product teams and deal teams to structure financing transactions. Your attention to detail helps you conduct market research, client and transaction due diligence, and prepare accurate and timely documents.
Sales
Financial Markets Sales delivers comprehensive financing, risk management and investment solutions to the Bank’s corporate, government, and institutional clients. As an integral member of our client engagement franchise, you ensure optimal client experience by proactively connecting with clients to develop and deepen their understanding of their differentiated business needs.
Traders
Our traders fulfil duties of market-making with key global and regional clients, and partner closely with sales, structuring, research and strategy to develop new products, strategies and trade ideas to deliver best-in-class solutions for our clients. Thrive on the fast-paced movements of the financial markets and complemented with a high awareness and understanding of the business strategy.
Algorithmic traders
eFX trading and Algorithmic Trading Quants are responsible for the growth of our FX market-making business across deliverable FX spot, non-deliverable FX forwards, precious metals and other electronically-tradable assets. They provide real-time oversight of the fully-automated high-frequency trading system, complemented by our quants team who develop new solutions .
Quants
Our developers work closely with traders and structurers to provide connectivity to the back office and operations function on diverse financial markets projects spanning applications to support individual teams, processes that handle millions of trades & thousands of users. Your computer science expertise will help deliver high performance software and quantitative analytics.
Structuring
Our structurers collaborate closely with our client coverage teams to design bespoke and optimal solutions to help the Bank’s clients hedge, invest and raise financing. Your aptitude to think out of the box, strong communication skills, creativity and resilience help conciliate the different objectives and constraints to deliver practical & viable solutions for all stakeholders.
Channel Managers
Our in-house economists and analysts produce high quality differentiated research and market our Global Research views to key global and regional clients and provide them with economic and market briefings to highlight risks and opportunities. You have a strong partnership with your sales and trading colleagues and display keen awareness and understanding of the wider business.
Our global footprint
Client Coverage owns and leads the management and development of our Client Relationships globally. They work across the global network together with our product partners to deliver working capital, financing, trade, cash and financial markets solutions for our clients. The solutions cover a wide range of products and services from sustainable trade finance to credit derivatives to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory.
Our clients include large corporations, governments, banks and investors headquartered, operating or investing in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. While our corporate banking clients consist of large multinational and local corporates, our commercial banking clients represent a large and important portion of the economies we serve and are potential future multinational corporates. Our strong and deep local presence across these markets enables us to facilitate trade, capital and investment flows, in and for our footprint.
A key theme that is increasingly driving our business globally is decarbonisation and energy transition. Our teams are taking a leading role in this area, and we’re working with many of our key clients on their transition plans. We’ve allocated $300bn of financing between now and 2030 to support this crucial area.
Join us if you want to work with some of the most influential local and global corporates in your geographies. You’ll get the opportunity to work with lots of different teams within the CIB business function and more broadly across the bank. Our Client Coverage team are an essential component of our customer experience, guiding clients through our products and solutions and they work closely with our product partners, internal specialist teams and stakeholders throughout.
“During these uncertain times, it’s more important than ever to remain in constant touch with my clients.”
Jack Duan 段俊杰
Relationship Manager, China Desk
Jack, a Chinese native, first started with Standard Chartered in Nigeria, followed by China, and is now in India as a Relationship Manager at the China Desk.
Roles in Client Coverage
Relationship Manager
Fostering and maintaining strong relationships with our clients and being their first line of contact for banking services. With your combination of product, service and sales knowledge, you take care of our clients’ every need across all the markets where we are present, providing them with timely and relevant banking solutions that contribute to the success of their business.
Credit Analyst
As a Credit Analyst with deep knowledge of risk assessment and portfolio risk management, you provide independent credit review and analysis of the Bank’s clients to ensure their credit worthiness. Equally, you also assess the Bank’s risk appetite against market and economic conditions across the different markets and asset classes.
Industry Bankers
Industry Bankers have deep expertise and knowledge of a specific industry or sector, working closely with Relationship Managers and Product Managers to offer comprehensive coverage, as well as product and deal execution capabilities in the areas of mergers and acquisitions advisory, private equity placement, and acquisition financing.
Transaction Banking Sales Bankers
Experts in Cash Management, Trade Finance and Supply Chain products and services. In partnership with our Product Teams, you offer a comprehensive suite of transactional banking solutions to our clients, covering collection and payment, liquidity management, and supply chain financing among many others that support their domestic, regional and international business.
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Get to know us
Here is where ambition meets impact – come build the future of banking with us
Our growth
We are our clients’ trusted banking partner in expanding their business globally. Our CIB business has an unparalleled international network with onshore presence in 53 markets and a comprehensive suite of bespoke banking solutions, allowing us to support clients from large and small corporates to financial institutions.
Digital
Our global digital banking platform allows our teams to offer clients a convenient and consistent experience, regardless of their location. This includes Straight2Bank, an award-winning digital banking platform that offers cash management, trade finance, securities services, FX and Financial Markets services, all in one open banking ecosystem.
Sustainability
We’re moving capital to where it matters most by accelerating the deployment of Sustainable Finance across our markets. In 2021 alone, we increased our sustainable asset base by 138% to USD9.2 billion. We recently published targets for net zero emissions in our financed portfolio and will continue to engage with our clients on their transition plans.
People and culture
We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture is essential for our success, not just as a business, but as an employer too. Our CCIB colleagues span the globe (124 nationalities and counting), and we’re proud to have been recognised in the top 20 as a diversity leader in the Financial Times’ list of European 2021 leaders for workplace diversity and inclusion.