Associate, Transaction Management Group

Job Description

Job Summary

• To join the Transaction Management team working on documentation with institutional investors, banks, insurance companies, governments and multinational corporations. Transaction Management offers a wide range of documentation experience and managementskills for Syndicated Lending and Agency services. The role will require the candidate to work with various internal stakeholders and external vendors in developing documentation standards throughout CCIB and Corporate Finance. The role will require documentationsupport for various regions from Latin America to Asia for the management and development of Transaction Banking and Agency lending products.

QULIFICATIONS

• Perform deal and structure review, negotiate with clients on draft documentation such as lending agreements, account bank, escrow agreements, security documents and any other related documents that are required within the structure. This review will needto be in accordance with the banks policies, TMG ORF and market standards.
• Provide quality documentation support and advice regarding our legal appointments for relationship managers, transaction banking, GSAM, commodities, structured trade finance, project & export finance, syndications, shipping finance, aircraft finance Islamicfinance and any other business team as and when required. This is for all transaction banking, agency and security trustee appointments.
• Liaise directly with the origination teams, external and internal legal counsel and customers to discuss documentation requirements from both a documentation and business perspective to advise those parties of our drafting requirements.
• Support drafting standards, regulatory requirements, mitigate performance risk through documentation solutions,support client opportunities, ensure that problems are managed with adequate communications, manage any root-cause analysis to improve documentationstandards and further improve the way in which we work through cost effective and documentation improvements.
• Ensure that all actions of the documentation are effective understood and operationally managed thereby creating a robust end to end process in accordance with the TMG operational risk framework and markets standard requirements for that product.
• Ensure that all draft documentation contains our full drafting riders and all our agency protection provisions. To further escalate all breaches towards the Global Head of the Transaction Management Group.
• Key responsibilities will be the management of all Transaction Banking products and secondary will be our other products.
• Manage security trustee roles by reviewing the security documentation, security releases, intercreditor arrangements and any enforcement of security as instructed by the secured parties.
• Always maintain independent control over the documentation to ensure that all documentation is drafted in such a manner to protect the agent bank and the external risk takers by ensuring we have independent management within the documentation. The rolewill require the candidate to further be mindful of the documentation requirements versus the management of Standard Chartered clients relationships.
• Ensure that all information and relevant systems are managed through our compliance wall thereby supporting our legal appointments as the intermediary bank and trustee that is between the client and their own risk takers. All communications must be keptwithin the private side of the bank for compliance and confidentiality reasons.
• Assist with the management and safekeeping of any original documentation within our original documentation procedures.
• Proactively manage all day to day transaction issues within the documentation on new or existing clients within the portfolio by offering operations support that may be needed during the life of any transactions.
• Resolve documentation challenges with the customers and their relationship managers in order to introduce suitable solutions for all parties through documentation amendments or waivers.
• Review and communicate all waiver and amendment requests in accordance with the documentation requirements. Manage all client requests with the secured creditors by ensuring that we have received the right voting rights or supporting information beforewe arranging to execute any documentation changes.
• Arrange and host client or lender meetings as required by the lenders regarding these documentation breaches, defaults or amendments either through conference calls or client meetings. Take active ownership of any distressed clients by managing their workoutrequirements, restructuring conditions, reserving rights, additional security, suspense accounts, trustee management and any required enforcement of the underlying security package. Manage all distressed client requests by working with GSAM and the securedcreditors.
• Prepare a deal summary, workflow diagrams and manage a handover meeting for the appropriate administration team by ensuring that a general operational overview of the transaction was given, and further areas of risk were highlighted. Within these meetingalso ensure that any operational risk, key dates, monitoring or reporting requirements were discussed as well.
• Develop any administrative and operational procedures to ensure that we are in compliance with SCBs policies and the any underlying requirements within that product.
• Manage all transaction closings by ensuring that all conditions precedent and conditions subsequent have been satisfied within the documentation by arranging closing calls and communications towards all parties. Ensure that if the transaction has any additionalconditions precedent or requirements for future drawings that these conditions are discussed and highlighted to the appropriate administration teams within these handover meetings.
• Coach and guide our administration teams in their management of these client transactions by developing documentation knowledge and skills within the department and bank.
• Handle any other responsibilities such as ongoing product development, managing the development of any new products and ensure that we deliver our client opportunities.
• Participate in client events, market training and review market publications to provide feedback and assistance in all areas of the Transaction Management team by communicating customer requirements, market trends and any developments area to ensure thatthe team is sharing knowledge and enhancing the way we work to remain competitive within the market.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Loans/Documentation Skills
• Good Business Communication

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