Senior Associate / Associate Director Project Finance

London (Hybrid)

Attractive & Competitive Salary and Benefits Package

Duties:

• Provide credit risk related services including, as required, considered advice, analysis, monitoring, recommendation for action for a Portfolio of positions (and potential future 3rd party portfolios) in a timely manner, meeting client requirements in time/format/quality agreed with client, to allow asset owner the assessment of their risk position and making informed decisions.
• Work as part of wider teams and to support the surveillance and reporting of portfolio transactions as well as new business initiatives.
• Ongoing monitoring, analysis and efficient handling of portfolios of performing / non-performing assets in line with our clients requirements, identifying opportunities for recovery and economic improvement as well as relevant risk mitigation opportunities and on that basis provide considered recommendations for action.
• Support marketing and business development efforts of dedicated units within by observing market for potential service opportunities, where applicable contributing to pro-active proposals for new business, supporting the preparation of marketing materials, support diligencing/onboarding of new portfolios as well as related tasks.

Your Skill Set:

• Educated with a relevant degree.
• Must have established previous working experience with a proven track record in a related credit / risk / asset management environment involving infrastructure and energy project finance.
• Good understanding of both project and corporate finance with a solid background in and knowledge of credit risk drivers and risks inherent in the respective borrower industry sectors.
• Solid analytical and technical skills and ability to understand complex loan documentation and financing structures and ability to convey technical (modelling) concepts to both technical practitioners and third parties.
• Comfortable in a client facing role and ability to confidently present recommendations up to credit committee level as well as investors.
• Ability to represent the business and its clients and articulate, negotiate and implement decisions, strategies and documentation.
• Good organisational and time management skills, a hands-on approach and attention to detail are necessary.
• Good writing skills producing robust, concise and insightful decision papers.
• Good understanding of the main drivers of ratings scorecards / the rating methodologies of the main 'Big Three' (Moody's, S&P, Fitch) ratings agencies in particular.
• Team player with ability to work in a multicultural and international environment.
• Must be able to adapt quickly and efficiently to changing business and client requirements.
• Ability to work independently and to client deliverables deadlines.
• High level of familiarity of Excel (notably ability to review and scrutinise project financial models, run sensitivity analysis), Word, Powerpoint and/or other data processing and analysis tools.