Key responsibilities
- Work on transactions end to end, including screening, due diligence, structuring, negotiation and closing
- Build and maintain project finance and cash flow models, and run sensitivities and downside cases
- Write investment committee papers and present credit recommendations to the team
- Analyse key credit risks, including sponsor quality, contracts, counterparties, regulation and construction and operational risk
- Coordinate with sponsors, co-lenders, lawyers and technical and commercial advisers
- Monitor portfolio assets, including covenant compliance, amendments, waivers and performance reporting
- Contribute to origination efforts and market analysis across European infrastructure
Candidate profile
- Currently in one of these roles:
- Infrastructure project finance at a bank, with hands-on experience structuring and executing transactions
- Infrastructure credit or debt on the buyside, at a debt fund, asset manager, insurer or pension investor
- Around 2-5 years' relevant experience, with a track record of closed deals
- Excellent project finance modelling and credit analysis skills
- Good knowledge of infrastructure debt documentation, security packages and financing structures
- Strong writing skills, with experience preparing credit or investment committee papers
- Strong academic background; CFA or similar is advantageous
- Proactive, meticulous and comfortable taking ownership in a lean team
- Additional European languages are a plus but not required
What's on offer
- A role in a growing infrastructure debt team at a well-established global firm
- Direct involvement in investment committee processes and exposure to senior leadership
- Clear career progression as the team grows
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
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Senior Analyst / Associate - Infrastructure Credit in London employer: CFA Institute
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