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Get Access To All JobsRequisition Number: 51280
Job Location: Victoria Island, NGA
Global Grade: Band 8
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 24/03/2026
Posting End Date: 07/04/2026
Job Summary
The Senior SME Relationship Manager drives revenue growth by onboarding and deepening relationships with business clients with annual turnover of up to USD100 million, leveraging the Bank’s global network and capabilities in International Trade.
- Drive growth in Trade Finance and deposit mobilization by acquiring, managing, and deepening relationships with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with annual STOs of up to N150 billion, ensuring effective retention of customers.
- Promote trade products such as Letters of Credit (LCs), Bills for Collection, Bank Guarantees, Import/Export finance, and structured trade solutions.
- Grow the bank’s trade finance and deposit book through structured marketing and relationship strategies.
- Work closely with the Trade Operations and Treasury teams to deliver seamless end-to-end service.
- Ensure efficient processing and timely execution of trade transactions.
- Focus on building sustainable banking relationships, increasing low-cost deposits, and cross-selling appropriate financial solutions to SME clients.
- Source, onboard, manage and increase penetration of NTB Trade SME portfolio accounts.
- Identify and sell SME products to SME clients through consultative approach and detailed understanding of customers’ business(es) and internal offerings to enhance revenues and profit.
- Improve customer experience and service delivery to SME clients.
- Focus more on cash-rich clients/sectors like Trade, Maritime, Oil & Gas, IT, NGO, Health, schools, General Commerce and high revenue clients.
- Create quality Risk Assets from a tail base to high revenue base.
- Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategically identify and acquire Trade and SME clients with deposit potential, with a focus on current accounts/low-cost deposits.
- Onboard and grow a portfolio of SME Trade clients, ensuring consistent deposit inflows and enhanced account utilization.
- Prospect and onboard Trade SME businesses across various sectors. Understand their business cycles to offer tailored deposit and payment solutions that align with their needs.
- Engage NTB clients via leads sourced from Supplier & Buyer ecosystem, Alliances, Targeted lists and Store catchment with full range of SME banking liability products.
- Activate NTB clients, set up and educate clients on remote channel usage i.e., online, POS, Client Centre, ATM.
- Ensure all accounts in portfolio are qualified for RM management.
- Drive deepening activities with high value/potential clients using full range of SME products and collaboration with specialist.
- Analysis of needs and provision of SME products and services.
- Understand client businesses to ensure needs are met via SME products and services by leveraging analytics backed next best conversations.
- Develop a feedback system which will adequately keep the Head SME Client Relationship & Sales abreast of key customer service developments, weakness and strengths in the competition via weekly call reports, that will effectively assist in overall SME strategic/franchise planning.
- Share minutes of meeting with clients same day of the meeting (as specified in the operating rhythm).
- Share contact plans every Monday morning or first working day of the week with your LM (as specified in operating rhythm).
- Call memos to be collated and submitted every Friday morning or last working day of the week with your LM (as specified in operating rhythm). Call memos to be documented on all calls.
- Liaise and provide leadership in areas of expertise, particularly in the provision of products and services to customers.
- Provide feedback to senior management, marketing and product management on customer’s needs and the efficiency of marketing strategies and tactics.
Business
SME Banking - The SME Business at Standard Chartered serves Businesses with annual turnovers of up to USD 100 million (NGN 150 billion).
Processes
Adhere strictly to the Bank’s policies and Department Operating Instructions.
Risk Management
Ensure you remain alert to the risk of money laundering and assist in the bank’s efforts in combating it by adhering to the key principles in relation to:
- Identify your customer, knowing your customer, reporting suspicions, safeguarding records and not disclosing suspicions to customers.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- Sales support teams (CMPS, Treasury, Trade, SME Trade service, SME Credit Analysts, SME Products, Client Experience, BRM/Assurance).
- Branch managers and Head of Operations on issues to SME customers.
- Branch departmental, GTO & credit managers and staff for SME customer’s account opening, servicing and administration.
- Product Development and Analytics > product review, development, implementation and analysis.
- SBIM for scorecard/KPI discussions.
External Stakeholders
- Customers.
- Regulators.
- Competition.
Other Responsibilities
Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Nigeria SME Banking unit; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).
Complexity / Judgement
Complexity in managing portfolio of customers balancing effort/reward.
Freedom of Decision Making
Many day to day decisions regarding customers (not credit).
Significant latitude in managing and prioritizing workload.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Good first degree or requisite technical skills gained through professional associations and practical experience.
- Deep knowledge of trade finance instruments and global trade regulations.
- Good working knowledge of SME products and industry lending products.
- Candidates must have a minimum of 8 years post graduate banking experience.
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.
Requisition Number: 51280
Job Location: Victoria Island, NGA
Global Grade: Band 8
Work Type: Office Working
Employment Type: Permanent
Posting Start Date: 24/03/2026
Posting End Date: 07/04/2026
Job Summary
The Senior SME Relationship Manager drives revenue growth by onboarding and deepening relationships with business clients with annual turnover of up to USD100 million, leveraging the Bank’s global network and capabilities in International Trade.
- Drive growth in Trade Finance and deposit mobilization by acquiring, managing, and deepening relationships with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with annual STOs of up to N150 billion, ensuring effective retention of customers.
- Promote trade products such as Letters of Credit (LCs), Bills for Collection, Bank Guarantees, Import/Export finance, and structured trade solutions.
- Grow the bank’s trade finance and deposit book through structured marketing and relationship strategies.
- Work closely with the Trade Operations and Treasury teams to deliver seamless end-to-end service.
- Ensure efficient processing and timely execution of trade transactions.
- Focus on building sustainable banking relationships, increasing low-cost deposits, and cross-selling appropriate financial solutions to SME clients.
- Source, onboard, manage and increase penetration of NTB Trade SME portfolio accounts.
- Identify and sell SME products to SME clients through consultative approach and detailed understanding of customers’ business(es) and internal offerings to enhance revenues and profit.
- Improve customer experience and service delivery to SME clients.
- Focus more on cash-rich clients/sectors like Trade, Maritime, Oil & Gas, IT, NGO, Health, schools, General Commerce and high revenue clients.
- Create quality Risk Assets from a tail base to high revenue base.
- Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategically identify and acquire Trade and SME clients with deposit potential, with a focus on current accounts/low-cost deposits.
- Onboard and grow a portfolio of SME Trade clients, ensuring consistent deposit inflows and enhanced account utilization.
- Prospect and onboard Trade SME businesses across various sectors. Understand their business cycles to offer tailored deposit and payment solutions that align with their needs.
- Engage NTB clients via leads sourced from Supplier & Buyer ecosystem, Alliances, Targeted lists and Store catchment with full range of SME banking liability products.
- Activate NTB clients, set up and educate clients on remote channel usage i.e., online, POS, Client Centre, ATM.
- Ensure all accounts in portfolio are qualified for RM management.
- Drive deepening activities with high value/potential clients using full range of SME products and collaboration with specialist.
- Analysis of needs and provision of SME products and services.
- Understand client businesses to ensure needs are met via SME products and services by leveraging analytics backed next best conversations.
- Develop a feedback system which will adequately keep the Head SME Client Relationship & Sales abreast of key customer service developments, weakness and strengths in the competition via weekly call reports, that will effectively assist in overall SME strategic/franchise planning.
- Share minutes of meeting with clients same day of the meeting (as specified in the operating rhythm).
- Share contact plans every Monday morning or first working day of the week with your LM (as specified in operating rhythm).
- Call memos to be collated and submitted every Friday morning or last working day of the week with your LM (as specified in operating rhythm). Call memos to be documented on all calls.
- Liaise and provide leadership in areas of expertise, particularly in the provision of products and services to customers.
- Provide feedback to senior management, marketing and product management on customer’s needs and the efficiency of marketing strategies and tactics.
Business
SME Banking - The SME Business at Standard Chartered serves Businesses with annual turnovers of up to USD 100 million (NGN 150 billion).
Processes
Adhere strictly to the Bank’s policies and Department Operating Instructions.
Risk Management
Ensure you remain alert to the risk of money laundering and assist in the bank’s efforts in combating it by adhering to the key principles in relation to:
- Identify your customer, knowing your customer, reporting suspicions, safeguarding records and not disclosing suspicions to customers.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- Sales support teams (CMPS, Treasury, Trade, SME Trade service, SME Credit Analysts, SME Products, Client Experience, BRM/Assurance).
- Branch managers and Head of Operations on issues to SME customers.
- Branch departmental, GTO & credit managers and staff for SME customer’s account opening, servicing and administration.
- Product Development and Analytics > product review, development, implementation and analysis.
- SBIM for scorecard/KPI discussions.
External Stakeholders
- Customers.
- Regulators.
- Competition.
Other Responsibilities
Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Nigeria SME Banking unit; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).
Complexity / Judgement
Complexity in managing portfolio of customers balancing effort/reward.
Freedom of Decision Making
Many day to day decisions regarding customers (not credit).
Significant latitude in managing and prioritizing workload.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Good first degree or requisite technical skills gained through professional associations and practical experience.
- Deep knowledge of trade finance instruments and global trade regulations.
- Good working knowledge of SME products and industry lending products.
- Candidates must have a minimum of 8 years post graduate banking experience.
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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Which finance companies in Michigan sponsor H-1B1 visas?
Detroit-based Ally Financial, Flagstar Bank, and Comerica are among the larger Michigan finance employers with established visa sponsorship infrastructure. Regional institutions and insurance firms, including those headquartered in the Grand Rapids corridor, also periodically sponsor specialty occupation roles. Sponsorship decisions depend on the specific position, the employer's HR capacity, and whether the role meets H-1B1 specialty occupation criteria. Smaller firms may sponsor less frequently than large national institutions.
Which cities in Michigan have the most finance H-1B1 sponsorship jobs?
Detroit and its metro suburbs, including Troy, Southfield, and Dearborn, concentrate the largest share of Michigan finance employment and represent the best opportunities for H-1B1 sponsorship. Grand Rapids is a secondary hub, particularly for insurance and wealth management roles. Ann Arbor attracts fintech and financial technology positions linked to its university economy. Outside these three metros, sponsoring finance employers become significantly less common.
What types of finance roles typically qualify for H-1B1 sponsorship in Michigan?
Roles that consistently qualify include financial analysts, credit risk analysts, quantitative analysts, compliance officers, and corporate treasury specialists, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as finance, accounting, or economics. General roles like loan officers or branch managers may not qualify if the employer cannot demonstrate a specific degree requirement. Employers must document that the position meets USCIS specialty occupation standards.
How do I find finance H-1B1 sponsorship jobs in Michigan?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international job seekers and filters finance H-1B1 sponsorship jobs in Michigan by visa type and industry, saving you from manually screening hundreds of listings. Because H-1B1 is exclusive to Chilean and Singaporean nationals, the eligible applicant pool is narrower than H-1B, but you still need employers who understand the visa category. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with active sponsorship history so you can focus your applications strategically.
Are there any Michigan-specific considerations for H-1B1 sponsorship in finance?
Michigan's finance sector is heavily concentrated in banking, insurance, and automotive finance, which means many sponsoring employers operate in industries sensitive to economic cycles. H-1B1 visas require annual renewal, so job stability matters more than with multi-year visas. Michigan does not impose state-level visa sponsorship requirements beyond federal obligations, but employers here, especially mid-size banks and credit unions, may have limited prior experience processing H-1B1 petitions specifically, as opposed to the more common H-1B.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B1 finance jobs in Michigan?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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