Agency Officer, Analyst

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The primary purpose of the role is to manage part of the portfolio of syndicated loans where BNPP is acting as Agent in accordance with the established processes. The Agency professional is also instrumental in ensuring alignment of processes and approaches vis‑à‑vis external and internal stakeholders, including business partners and Agency management. The incumbent drives or contributes to continuous process improvements or other projects.

The role requires direct connections with external and internal stakeholders. He/She reports directly or functionally to the Head of Regional Agency, [Singapore / Hong Kong / Tokyo] Branch and Head of Regional Agency APAC.

Primary

Role Responsibilities:

• Understand finance documents, especially on the agency and operational aspects and implications.
• Ensure satisfaction of conditions precedent prior to loan drawdown and conditions subsequent thereafter.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders, legal counsels and other external parties, coordinate funds flow to ensure smooth closing.
• Facilitate waiver / amendment requests / consent counts or other enquiries from either clients or lenders.
• Monitor submission of covenants or other reports during the life of the deal.
• Safekeeping of originals and security documents, release of securities upon full repayment or prepayment.
• Calculate financial covenants that are under Agency scope.
• Loan administration: liaise with clients and other lenders for all loan drawdown, roll‑overs, rate fixings, prepayments, loan transfers, audit requests etc.; perform calculation, maintain all internal loan records and prepare payment instructions to Operations, directly or as supervisor to another team member.

Contribute to the homogeneity of the regional setup by abiding to prevailing procedures and risk control management and providing KPIs or other management reporting elements.

Participate in project initiatives contributing to continuous organization or process improvements.

• Degree holder
• Loan administration experience, preferably on syndicated deals
• Common sense / Being proactive / Ability to learn from experience

• Team player with good oral and written communication skills to interact with diversified stakeholders, including ability to stay focused in handling questions or issues
• Confident and ability to handle conference Teams meetings and calls amongst various stakeholders
• Meticulous and attentive to details
• Good planning and organisation skills
• Good MS Office knowledge (Intermediate or Advanced)
• Client oriented and with ability to resist pressure

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community
• BNP Paribas Mix City which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization
• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness
• BNP Paribas Cultur All which celebrates diverse backgrounds

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