It is essential that all candidates applying have a minimum 3 years proven UK work experience in banking or relevant industry experiences. Sponsorship will not be available for this position.
Our Client is looking for a Project Finance, M&A Assistant to join their small team on a permanent basis. This position is full time in office, 5 days per week.
The successful candidate will provide supporting work for pre and post funding, the core focus of this position is to ensure that, all credit applications can be submitted in a timely manner and receive approval efficiently and to make sure all outstanding loans within the portfolio are performing. The successful candidate will also support with tracking loan performance, covenants, raising early warning signs or opportunities from within the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities (but not limited to):
• Support Relationship Manager for business credit application, pre and post funding activities, including credit rating, KYC, documentation and system inputs.
• Monitoring loan performance within the structured finance portfolio. Including, projects monitoring, quarterly review, annual review, financial covenants monitoring, waiver request processing and post loan monitoring.
• Ensuring loans are compliant in terms of contractual agreements.
• Regular reporting internally for loan performance.
• The key goal of this role is to ensure that the Client is able to manage a dynamic portfolio including project finance, M&A, structured finance and real asset finance.
• Maintaining a keen interest and awareness of market trends in international business including trends and events in the UK and international infrastructure and M&A markets.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
• Applicants should have a minimum of 3 years of experience in banking or relevant industry experiences.
• Good understanding of Infrastructure and Project finance and M&A and real estate, especially sector knowledge of oil, gas, power, property and renewables.
• Good ability to understand complex financing structures and loan documentation.
• Strong technical skills and computer literacy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent in written/spoken English and Mandarin would be a great advantage, but not essential.
For more information on this role please contact Judith Webb by sending your CV and quoting ref 16878JW.