Director, Cross Asset Structured Solutions, Banks

Job ID: 42586

Location: Paris, FR

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 24 Oct 2025
- Job Description A role involves originating and delivering bespoke, non-flow, cross-asset financial markets solutions, including private credit, collaborating closely with key stake holders across structuring, trading, research, and coverage teams. Additional focus areas include on financing, risk optimisation, and investment solutions across Structured Credit, Macro, Commodities, and Equity asset classes.- If you’re an enthusiastic individual with a proven track record in structured and secured financing, ideally with exposure to private credit and cross-asset expertise, and eager to shape the next phase of a growing business within a global markets platform — we’d love to hear from you.- Key Responsibilities- Originate and execute innovative cross-asset transactions across financing, investment, and risk sharing themes.
- Develop and deepen strategic relationships with Continental European clients, delivering tailored and value-driven solutions.
- Drive business growth through private credit-linked and alternative distribution opportunities, leveraging experience in risk sharing and structured distribution.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Structuring, Trading, Research, and Relationship teams to deliver holistic client outcomes.
- Lead client engagement for RWA and capital optimisation, enhancing product-level RoRWA.
- Ensure robust governance and operational excellence, maintaining compliance with internal frameworks and external regulations.
- Represent the franchise regionally, contributing to business strategy, market presence, and thought leadership.
- Skills and Qualifications**Skills**
- Proven expertise in secured and structured financing with comprehensive cross-asset knowledge.
- Strong technical knowledge of balance sheet, funding, and capital optimisation concepts.
- Exceptional client engagement and relationship-building skills, with an ability to connect product strategy to client needs.
- Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and solution-oriented mindset — thrives in fast-moving environments.
- Excellent analytical, presentation, and communication capabilities.
- Deep understanding of Continental European financial markets and regulatory landscapes.
- Multilingual proficiency, including English and other European languages (French, German, Italian, or Spanish), is highly advantageous.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related discipline; postgraduate or professional qualifications (CFA, FRM) advantageous.
- 7+ years’ experience in financial markets sales, structured solutions, or related client-facing roles.
- Demonstrated ability to originate, and execute complex cross-asset transactions, with strong technical knowledge.
- Strong track record in revenue generation, relationship management, and strategic business 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.- 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