Associate- Capital Structure

**Job Summary**
- We are seeking an **Associate** join our **Capital Structure & Rating Advisory (CSRA)** team. In this role, you will collaborate with **Relationship Managers and Product Partners** to provide corporate clients with insights into **capital structure, ratings, funding strategies, and risk mitigation**. This is an excellent opportunity to develop expertise in **corporate finance, credit ratings, and financial modelling** while working closely with senior advisors.
- Key Responsibilities

**Strategy & Business Support**
- Assist in **implementing CSRA’s origination and execution strategy** across France and Europe.
- Support the team in **identifying financing needs of our clients and advice on best practice** solutions.
- Develop a **strong understanding of market trends, sector developments, and rating methodologies**.

**Client & Deal Execution Support**
- **Prepare financial models and client-ready materials** for presentations on capital structure, credit ratings, and financing strategies.
- Conduct **research and analysis on sector trends** and credit rating agency methodologies.
- Work closely with peers to **develop presentations and financial insights** for client meetings.

**Risk & Governance**
- Maintain and update key **work-in-progress files, client pipelines, and internal reporting tools**.
- Support the **tracking of rating advisory mandates** and ensure compliance with governance frameworks.
- Ensure accurate documentation of **workflows, conflicts of interest, and deal activity**.

**People & Development**
- Learn from and collaborate with **senior team members** to gain hands-on experience in client advisory.
- Contribute to a **positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture**.
- Skills and Qualifications

**Skills & Expertise**
- Strong **analytical and problem-solving** skills, with a keen interest in capital structure and credit ratings.
- **Financial modelling** experience in Excel, with the ability to analyze financial statements.
- Strong **PowerPoint skills** to develop professional client presentations.
- Understanding of **corporate finance principles, credit rating agencies, and banking products**.
- Excellent **communication and interpersonal** skills to collaborate effectively across teams.

**Qualifications**
- **Degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field**.
- Some experience in **corporate finance, banking, or financial analysis** (internships or junior roles preferred).
- Exposure to **financial modelling, treasury, or risk management** is a plus.

**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 celeb