Senior Strategy Director(Wholesale Banking)

Senior Strategy Director (Wholesale Banking) wanted (urgent!)

The WB Strategy Group is the driver and custodian of Wholesale Bank strategic and operating agenda. We are currently seeking candidates for the role of Senior Strategy Director. This individual will be a critical key member of the strategy team who will work and interact with the senior management at Standard Chartered. The position reports directly to the Strategy Group's Managing Director.

You will be required to work in a team effectively as an internal strategy consultant to the Bank's senior management on issues of strategy, organization, operations, and M&A. You are expected to take the lead in mostly intensive, project based work.

This position provides an excellent opportunity to assume management responsibilities and to gain in-depth knowledge of the Standard Chartered Group and its individual businesses. The Bank is on an aggressive growth trajectory and is extremely well positioned in the major emerging markets of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Future prospects for moving into other positions in the bank are therefore excellent.

Your key activities would be as follows:

• Drive the Wholesale Bank's strategic agenda by conceptualizing and managing strategy projects (often working with the line management)
• Take a leading role in identifying issues, structuring work plans, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting analyses, synthesising conclusions, making presentations, and helping implement change to deliver measurable impact
• Engage constantly with senior management as a matter of course in all assignments
• Manage WB Strategy's Associates and Associate Directors throughout their project assignments and their professional development.


We seek highly motivated individuals with outstanding academic credentials and an already strong record of professional and leadership accomplishments. The ideal skill set would combine financial services knowledge with a 'consulting toolkit' (preferably from a top 3 consulting firm), 6 to 10 years of working experience in Asia or other key emerging markets as well as an MBA qualification. We are willing to consider a broader range of applicants on an exceptional basis.

Our ideal candidate is likely to be:
• A Principal / Manager at a top tier consulting firm who prefers to concentrate on consulting rather than sales as the partner level at consultancies.
• Likely 7-8 years post MBA consulting background
• In depth wholesale banking work experience (through consulting project work or direct employment). Areas of particular interest to us are financial markets (equity, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities), corporate finance, transaction banking and/or risk.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills combined with a sense of creativity and practicality
• Demonstrated project management and team leadership skills
• Capacity and drive to work and to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization
• Ability to handle tight deadlines and work well under pressure
• Personal qualities such as being a team worker and an independent thinker
• Comfortable working in a relatively unstructured, project-based and multi-cultural environment
• Experience focused on Financial Services industry in Asia and Emerging Markets
• Capabilities in one or more Asian language(s), especially Mandarin
• Proficiency in financial analysis and modelling

Interested parties, please contact Jacelyn at jacelyn.twl@gmail.com. Tks.