Executive Director, Financial Institutions Coverage for Swiss Market

Requisition Number: 43549

Job Location: Frankfurt, DEU

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 14/11/2025

Posting End Date: 31/12/2025

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Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Executive Director to join our Bank Broker Dealers team in Frankfurt.

This is a high-profile, strategic leadership role responsible for originating and managing relationships with a portfolio of financial institution clients (banks, brokers, fintechs) across Northern Europe, with a particular focus on the Swiss market.

As a trusted strategic advisor and valued partner, you will be accountable for the revenue, profitability, and risk management of your client portfolio. You will lead origination efforts, deepen client engagement, and ensure the seamless delivery of the full spectrum of the bank's products and services

This is a truly international leadership role, offering exceptional exposure and influence within one of the bank's largest and most strategically important client portfolios. You will have the opportunity to shape client strategy, drive business growth, and represent the organisation at the highest levels across Europe and beyond.

If you are a seasoned banker with a global mindset, strong client relationships, and a passion for leading in a dynamic, high-stakes environment, we invite you to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead origination and relationship management for a portfolio of key financial institutions, primarily Swiss banks, brokers and fintechs.

• Act as a strategic advisor to clients, driving opportunities across all product areas, including:

• Transaction Banking (Cash and Trade Finance)

• Banking - (DCM, Loan Syndication)

• Financial Markets (mainly financing solutions, via Repo/SecLending, FX, Rates, Credit)

• Partner with internal product and risk teams to deliver integrated solutions and optimise risk-adjusted returns.

• Drive sustainable client revenue growth while maintaining prudent risk and regulatory standards.

• Represent the bank with senior external stakeholders and internal executive committees.

• Provide leadership and mentorship to colleagues within the Financial Institutions Group, fostering collaboration and high performance.

Skills and Experience

• Proven track record as a senior relationship banker or coverage banker within the Financial Institutions sector.

• Deep understanding of banking regulatory environments, including BaFIN, FINMA and European regulatory frameworks.

• Extensive international network and established relationships across the financial services industry, particularly with banks and broker dealers.

• Demonstrated ability to originate and execute complex transactions across multiple product lines.

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance revenue generation and risk management.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Fluency in English and German language skills essential.

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.