Standard Chartered India | Manager, Deal Advisory & Research COE

Responsibilities

• The role requires strong corporate finance, valuation, and execution skills, with the ability to prepare high-quality financial models, pitchbooks, sector analyses, and transaction documentation
• This position is critical in enabling seamless execution with deal teams in key markets such as UK, Singapore, UAE, India.
• The role offers full exposure to the investment banking advisory business and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain significant expertise on cross-border deals
• Perform industry and market research, covering macro trends, competitive benchmarking, and sector deep dives.
• Prepare presentation materials for use in client meetings, covering topics such as strategic alternatives, M&A execution, capital markets activity and general corporate finance.
• Participate in the origination and execution of transactions including due diligence and drafting of documents.
• Lead drafting of marketing and transaction materials together with Directors/Senior leadership.
• Ensure seamless execution and pipeline development across key markets.
• Coordinate efforts with deal team members across the Bank; and.
• Ensure delivery excellence under tight deadlines while working across global time zones.
• Responsible for driving execution for global M&A and Capital Markets transactions across multiple geographies
• Work in close collaboration with M&A Advisory teams across key sectors such as (Oil, Gas & Chemicals, Metals & Mining, Diversified Industries, Clean Tech & Environment, etc) in origination and execution of transactions.
• Build detailed financial models (including DCF, LBO etc.) to value companies, evaluate performance under various operating scenarios and to analyse the impacts of different capital structures and potential M&A transactions or capital market transactions;

Requirements

• Knowledge / Financial statement analysis.
• Prior M&A / investment banking / Corporate Finance experience.
• Prior corporate finance experience in M&A across industries;
• Excellent teamwork / inter-personal / communication skills;
• Strong project management skills;
• Advanced Microsoft Office suite skills; Proficient with Bloomberg, S&P / Capital IQ, Mergermarket and/or other platforms/databases;
• Superior analytical aptitude and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Strong corporate finance and accounting foundation with hands-on experience in financial modelling and valuation
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills with a proven ability to create client-ready outputs
• Experience with various MDS tools such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Market, Wood Mackenzie, etc
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize under pressure, and deliver within deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication; Attention to detail; capable of working with senior stakeholders across geographies.
• Attention to detail, excellent documentation skills and high level of ownership on deliverables.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to proactively identify opportunities and drive results

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is an international banking group headquartered in London, with a strong focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It was formed in 1969 through the merger of Standard Bank and The Chartered Bank.

Its Indian global business services centres hire finance professionals for financial control, stress testing, regulatory reporting, tax and risk roles.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Present in India for over 150 years, with global business services centres in Bengaluru and Chennai