Director - Loan Syndicate Dubai

JOB SUMMARY

Our preference is for this role to be based in UAE - Dubai, but we will consider strong applicants to be based in London.

Responsible for the loan syndicate and distribution business for borrowers across Sub Saharan Africa and working with SSA clients including sovereigns, SOEs, FIs, multilaterals, and corporate clients to structure and distribute landmark syndicated loan transactions

Ensure awareness and understanding of CIB’s and FM’s strategy and objectives globally as well as the specific objectives and strategic priorities of the Loan Syndicate and Financing Risk business.

• Revenue – Help deliver the Regions and the overall Global TPI budget
• Distribution – Develop relationships with the loan investor universe, in order to achieve primary and secondary distribution volume targets whilst maximising skim income
• Risk – Assist in reducing stick positions through sales and distribution across our footprints
• Compliance – No breaches of compliance standards
• Assist senior directors reviewing structure, timing, pricing to market, and executing the distribution strategies of primary syndicated loans
• Independently lead syndicate and structuring thoughts alongside origination teams.
• Book running of transactions whilst ensuring stakeholders are updated consistently on the primary syndication process
• Assisting via book running other regions’ transactions whilst ensuring stakeholders are updated consistently on the primary syndication process
• Distribution of secondary loans to bank and non-bank investors for the Bank alongside Portfolio Management
• Providing loan market intelligence to product partners
• Adherence to and promotion of governance, compliance and risk standards
• Providing pricing feedback to various teams in Global Capital Markets as and when requested
• Providing market intelligence to contribute to underwriting decisions and help in monitoring of underwriting risk.
• Manage the team’s market comps and transactional database with analytical output provided to the wider team as required
• Manage the teams internal reporting presentations and loan market updates
• Manage the teams deal reporting to external agencies for league tables

• Underwriting Applications and updates to Underwriting Committee and Cat Prod
• CAF Submissions:
  Provide syndication support to product partners on various transactions
• Secondary Selldown:
  To draft T&C offer sheets according to the specifics of each transaction ensuring that they are accurate and contain the necessary marketing information as stipulated from time to time be Legal & Compliance
• Underwriting Applications:
  To assist in providing information around Syndication strategy that is accurate and detailed for Underwriting Applications on a timely basis (i.e. resulting in minimal to no delays with respect to the transaction), according to the standard and format stipulated by Global Head, Financing Risk
• Deal Ticket Submissions:
  Ensure timely and accurate submission Secondary sales are inputted into the Deal ticket system. Ensure that sales are inputted into the LSD Europe & Africa deal ticket book
• Client Presentations:
  To assist originations in the preparation of client pitchbooks and RFP responses where necessary.
• Internal Presentations:
  Support the team in the preparation of internal performance review presentations.
• Investor Feedback capturing:
  Ensure that feedback from investors are captured in the respective excel sheets

• Build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement and sharing best practice
• Collaborate with other Financing Risk team members and other internal RM / product team members

• Responsible for underwriting, syndication and distribution of syndicated loans
• Limit stick positions on underwritten positions.
• Ensure that syndication and distribution is carried out within the Group’s risk appetite and reputational and credit risks are appropriately managed in conjunction with other stakeholders
• Adherence to compliance standards including Private-Public Information Walls, Market…