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Requisition Number: 56100
Job Location: Sydney, AUS
Global Grade: Band 6
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 03/07/2026
Posting End Date: 31/08/2026
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Job Summary

• The Associate Coverage Banker supports the delivery of the bank’s client and coverage strategy by acting as an execution partner to Coverage Bankers and Senior Coverage Bankers across a defined portfolio of clients within assigned segments (Corp/ BBD/ Investors/ Sponsors/ SAS), helping deliver sustainable, risk adjusted client outcomes, including supporting transition and sustainable finance activity and cross border, network led opportunities to drive measurable wallet growth.
• Working in close partnership with, the role is accountable for executing agreed client strategies by building a holistic, end to end understanding of client needs and addressable wallet, preparing high quality origination and risk materials, and coordinating across products, risk and functional teams to deliver disciplined, risk adjusted client outcomes. They do so leveraging data and AI enabled insights to sharpen prioritisation, improve materials quality, and support high impact client and pipeline conversations. In doing so, the role plays a critical part in ensuring coverage plans translate into effective execution, strong risk discipline and a consistent client experience across the coverage lifecycle.
• Through hands on exposure to origination, portfolio management, risk processes and cross functional collaboration, the role builds the commercial judgement, risk awareness and stakeholder capability required to progress into broader Coverage Banker responsibilities over time.

Key Responsibilities

• The Associate Coverage Banker is an individual contributor role, accountable for execution, analysis and coordination in support of Coverage led client strategy and relationship ownership.

Prospecting and Onboarding

Prospect assessment:

• Analyse prospective clients against commercial, financial and risk considerations (including credit, AML, ESG and reputational factors) to support Coverage led prospect screening, ensuring focus on clients with the strongest potential to deliver sustainable returns and long term wallet growth, aligned to revenue thresholds, sector/segment priorities and multi market potential.

Client proposition execution:

• Prepare insight-driven, strategically aligned client pitches and origination materials in partnership with Product teams, clearly articulating the value, pricing considerations and financial outcomes of proposed solutions, leveraging AI enabled client, sector and thematic insights.

Onboarding support:

• Coordinate onboarding activities with Client Management, Risk and Operations to support timely account opening and resolution of KYC or documentation requirements, escalating where matters are complex, sensitive or pose heightened risk.

Planning and Origination

Account mapping:

• Analyse and end-to-end view of client structures, entities and decision makers to identify multi product and multi market opportunities, focusing effort on the highest value relationships and opportunities.

Client strategy execution:

• Translate agreed account strategies into actionable origination priorities and quantified financial targets, informed by AI enabled client, sector and thematic insights, aligned with Product partners and senior stakeholders to deliver measurable wallet growth.

Deal origination and evaluation:

• Prepare financial analysis, transaction materials and deal evaluations to inform pricing discipline, structuring and prioritisation discussions, supporting delivery of disciplined, risk adjusted returns.

Deal documentation support:

• Coordinate inputs and manage documentation workflows with Product, Risk, CFCR and Legal, supporting negotiation readiness on commercials, risk and terms, and ensuring documentation reflects deal economics and governance requirements.

Capital approvals:

• Prepare analysis and supporting materials to support Coverage led capital approval and CAF processes, coordinating inputs and tracking progress through governance.

Marketing and client activity:

• Prepare sector/thematic content, client materials and coordination of client events to expand engagement touchpoints and reinforce thought leadership and origination momentum.

Portfolio Management

Cross sell execution:

• Conduct forward-looking reviews of client wallets, utilisation and product penetration using data and AI-enabled insights to identify gaps, shape a high quality, return focused pipeline, and drive execution of cross sell actions.

Portfolio optimisation and offboarding execution:

• Execute analysis, remediation and tail actions to support Coverage led portfolio optimisation and client offboarding decisions, ensuring disciplined follow through.

Balance sheet discipline:

• Monitor utilisation, returns and balance sheet metrics, supporting capital efficiency and portfolio performance objectives, including RWA reduction/remediation where relevant.

Risk Management

Credit risk:

• Prepare and maintain high quality financial analysis, monitoring materials and credit documentation to support reviews, renewals and early risk identification.

Non financial risks:

• Support execution of AML, KYC, reputational, fraud and ESG requirements through accurate data management, timely reviews and proactive escalation of issues in line with policy and governance standards.

Service and Operations

• Coverage Bankers retain overall accountability for the client relationship and experience, while primary responsibility for day to day operational activities sits with Associate Coverage Bankers, Client Managers and Client Service teams. Associate Coverage Bankers coordinate execution, resolve issues and escalate appropriately to ensure coverage priorities are delivered efficiently and client impact is minimised.

KYC and client onboarding:

• Coordinate onboarding and client lifecycle activities, progressing KYC and documentation issues to resolution and escalating directly where matters are complex, sensitive or pose heightened risk.

TB and Lending Transactions:

• Support resolution of Transaction Banking and Lending issues, maintaining deal momentum and enabling timely Coverage led escalation.

Ops/Service/Sales coordination:

• Coordinate day to day service and operational activity across Operations, Platforms, COO, Risk and Client Service teams, capturing and escalating client, pricing and servicing issues, and feeding back execution gaps to support continuous improvement and minimise client impact.

Skills and Experience

• Commercial & Financial Acumen
• Cross Selling & Strategic Growth
• Product Knowledge (TB, Markets, Banking)
• Digital Fluency (Human & AI Collaboration)
• Risk Management (Financial and Non-Financial)
• Transformation/ Problem Solving
• Negotiation & Influence

Qualifications

Key Experiences.

• Experience supporting complex client or stakeholder work through strong analysis, coordination, and disciplined execution in fast‑paced, risk‑aware environments.
• Exposure to financial, risk, regulatory or control processes, demonstrating sound judgement, attention to detail, and the ability to operate within governance frameworks.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into action by working across teams, using data and structured problem‑solving to deliver outcomes and manage competing priorities.

Certifications / Qualifications

• Formal credit or risk certifications (preferred).
• Training in AML/KYC, conduct, sustainability or regulatory fundamentals (preferred).
• Familiarity with CRM, digital sales and productivity tools.

Language

English
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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