Structured Finance Specialist – Natural Resource Finance

Location: London

Corporate Title: Vice President

About the Role: Natural Resource Finance Structured (NRF Structured), a specialist team within the Corporate Bank, is a leading arranger of structured debt facilities across energy and natural resources. Typical financing structures include Reserve Based Lending, Pre-Export Finance/Prepayment, Borrowing Based Finance and Project Finance. NRF Structured is supported by dedicated infrastructure teams including agency, deal management, and governance functions. You will support the growth of the team’s portfolio in EMEA and cooperate in cross-regional transactions with other NRF and/or Trade Finance and Lending teams.

What we’ll offer you: A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre. You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year.

Your key responsibilities:

• Identify suitable financing options in cooperation with coverage teams.
• Provide structuring expertise to clients/prospects, while accounting for financial/non-financial risks.
• Perform comprehensive due diligence including financial, technical, legal/other.
• Oversee financial modelling & analysis and agree risk appetite with group head and calculate and adhere to the risk vs. return hurdles.
• Lead deal teams to obtain relevant internal approvals and negotiate term sheet, loan documentation, together with internal and/or external advisors.
• Ensure adherence to internal collateral recognition standards, support primary and secondary syndication/sell-down to approved holds, co-ordinate with external stakeholders such as client, legal advisors, and collateral auditors/appraisers.

Your skills and experience:

• Able to lead diverse deal teams from mandate origination to execution and monitoring of complex structured finance transactions.
• Originate new transactions in the natural resources sector with focus on transitioning clients and projects.
• Develop and implement structuring solutions in line with risk appetite, assist in market placement, drive internal approvals to delivery exposure strategies and evaluate, mitigate and monitor deal specific risks.
• Strong credit risk analysis skills, including financial/contractual/macro risks and knowledge of global commodity markets.
• Pro-active engagement with clients and internal stakeholders from all lines of defense – predominantly with coverage and risk functions.

How we’ll support you:

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).

About us: Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion. We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively. Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.