Senior Investment Banker: Debt Capital Markets and Loan Origination at Absa Group

Job Summary

• Responsible for originating debt capital markets and loan financing transactions in collaboration with Client Coverage and Product partners in the UK, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa.
• This role is to ensure that Absa has a seamless integrated product offering for its multinational and local African clients who wish to access Naira debt funding through the local bank and/or capital markets or hard currency debt funding through sub-investment grade debt markets offshore.
• Ideal candidate will be a seasoned Investment Banker with min 5 years DCM/Loan Origination expertise

Job Description

Deal Origination

• Identify and source debt financing opportunities in Nigeria.
• Co-ordinate with Client Coverage teams to engage with Nigerian clients to establish their debt financing needs.
• Work directly with these clients to structure, present and negotiate debt solutions to meet their requirements. Actively market these solutions to clients’ key decision makers.
• Arrange, prepare for and present at client meetings with key government officials (Ministry of Finance, Treasury Department, Ministry of Budget, Public Debt Department etc) and senior management in banks and corporates (CEO, CFO, Treasurer)
• Collaborate with the Global Finance teams in the UK, South Africa and other group presence countries to ensure consistent and co-ordinated product origination, structuring and execution.
• Co-ordinate with the Syndicate team to structure, price and arrange transactions for distribution (in bi-lateral, capital markets or derivative format).
• Advise clients on a wide range of capital structure decisions and financing alternatives.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Proactively develop relationships with key external stakeholders including local regulators relevant to the business, global product heads, key suppliers and external regulatory bodies to ensure Absa gets appropriate co-operation when required and that the Group meets and is seen to meet regulatory compliance

Risk Management

• Act as key sponsor for the area’s Risk Management Control Framework.
• Lead new product approval initiatives.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)