Debt & Capital Advisory and Liability Management Vice President in London

We are seeking a highly motivated Vice President with a strong analytical foundation and deep technical skills to join our Investment Banking team.

The ideal candidate will bring advanced modelling capabilities, working knowledge of Bloomberg, and a solid understanding of fixed income markets, Capital, Rating and Liability Management.

This role offers the opportunity to broaden sell-side experience while focusing on debt products within a dynamic, cross-functional environment with a global mandate.

• Summary of Responsibilities
• Collaborate with Bank Advisory seniors in defining and implementing business strategy and business plan, specifically for countries and/or sectors assigned.
• In depth analysis of clients / sectors / countries and specific situations, jointly with coverage and product teams, that can lead to value added opportunities or strategic discussions.
• Knowledge of relevant themes and trends at sector or country level.
• The role will require outstanding managerial and organizational capabilities to maintain the workstream and coordinate with different stakeholders within the Global team and other stakeholders.
• Lead cross-level collaboration within the team, guiding and coordinating junior contributors to deliver exceptional, client-ready pitch materials.
• Assisting the team in the client dialogue with financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, as it relates to balance sheet and ratings optimization.
• Active interaction with internal teams (coverage, DCM, risk, legal and products) to provide holistic and cross-product advice to clients.
• Ability to develop trusted advisor relationships with both existing clients and prospects in the financial sector.
• Review and validate analysis and draft pitches done by DA Product Specialists, to be sent internally or to be delivered to clients.
• Attend client meetings recurrently, with dialogue at senior level.

Gain client trust, based on technical knowledge and commitment, enabling 1) originating value added business with client, and 2) elevating strategic dialogue.

• Establish long term relationships with Senior Rating Agencies Analysts, in order to extract value added information in each relevant sector or client situation.
• Manage DA Product Specialists on a day to day basis, and train them.
• Expertise is pertinent regulatory capital requirements, solvency regulations, and rating agency methodologies.
• Build and develop complex financial models to measure capital and debt.

Skills, knowledge, and abilities/competencies

• This role is very much for a candidate looking to elevate their experience and professional knowledge in a fast pace global environment with focus on debt products and with the possibility to reach a global client base.
• Ability to work with cross-functional and cross-geographic teams with understanding of local jurisdictions.
• In addition to strong interpersonal and communications skills the role requires advanced quantitative skills.
• 5+ years of previous experience at Investment Bank, Financial Start-up, Rating Agency related to financial institution capital structures, funding as well as Bank Treasury.
• Advanced level knowledge of banks, insurance companies, and other financial institution fundamentals.
• Rating agency methodologies.
• Knowledge, intermediated or advanced, of Rating agency methodologies.
• Knowledge of fixed income instruments and pricing.
• Knowledge and exposure to Liability Management would also be a plus.