Associate, Islamic Corporate & Investment Banking (UAE National preferred)

Job Summary

Manage Islamic transactions for assigned business end-to-end and work with country Relationship Managers, Transaction Banking sales and Financial Market sales to support islamic clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Head Islamic in working with individual countries to promote Islamic Banking through developing overall strategy and direction.
• Work closely with Relationship Managers and clients to deliver tailored Islamic Financial solutions.
• Support end to end execution of financial deals.
• Provide Islamic products to existing and potential new clients of the bank.
• Ensure adherence to central bank & Islamic regulatory body guidelines.
• Build relationships across CIB and conventional products team to provide Islamic solutions.
• Work with local teams in different countries.
• Assist and answer any questions about products and products structures the client might have.
• Review the legality of any details from an Islamic and Sharie angle.
• Work with internally relevant teams to sell Islamic products.
• Assist in growing the Islamic CIB revenue.
• Assist in bringing new to bank clients and offer Islamic solutions to them.

Skills and Experience

•    Islamic Banking & Finance
•    Business Strategy and Business Model
•    Business Market Knowledge
•    Business Products and Processes
•    Business Financial Analysis
•    Risk Management and Internal Controls

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 celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies – everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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