Associate: LDF at Nedbank

Job Purpose

This is a front office role within Leveraged and Diversified Finance, which is part of the greater Investment Bank. Leveraged and Diversified Finance is focused on originating, implementing and maintaining term funding transactions (Investment Grade, Leveraged, Preference Shares, Mezzanine). The sectors that are covered are as follows: Private Equity, Investment Holding Companies, BEE, Family Offices, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, Retail, Travel & Leisure, General Industrials and Services, Automotive and Financial Institutions (Insurers and Asset Managers).  

Job Responsibilities

• Meaningfully contribute to the Leverage and Diversified Finance unit within Debt Finance.
• Contribute to revenue generation, with acceptable risk adjusted return.
• Grow Leverage and Diversified Finance’s market share by supporting Senior Transactors, building networks, and contribute to developing Nedbank CIB’s brand.
• Assist Senior Transactors to implement and close transactions by sharing your professional skills, completing deal assessments, running various pricing scenarios & debt scoping financial models, structuring the transaction, and presenting well written credit applications to the Credit Committee.
• Monitor market trends by researching and recording market developments, competitor activities and innovation of products and services.
• Contribute to innovation and product development in Leverage and Diversified Finance.
• Support Senior Transactors to grow bank wide profitability by attracting and retaining clients and supporting cross-sell to relevant product areas.
• Deliver quality structured funding solutions to meet requirements of existing and potential customers.
• Manage portfolio risk to maintain profitability and acceptable credit loss ratios.
• Manage risks by ensuring compliance with the relevant credit, investment and compliance policies of the bank.
• Identify and mitigate operational risk by implementing controls.
• Build and sustain trusting internal and external relationships and alliances across functional and organizational boundaries through collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Essential Qualification - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree (Commercial/Legal/Sciences/Accounting).

Preferred Qualification

• CA(SA) / ACCA / MBA / CFA / Relevant Postgraduate Qualification.

Minimum Experience Level

• 3+ years relevant experience with a demonstrated track record of originating, structuring and executing term funding transactions in the sector highlighted above.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Business Acumen
• Business principles
• Business writing
• Data analysis
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Principles of financial management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Relevant product knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Applied Learning
• Communication
• Collaborating
• Building partnerships
• Managing Work
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills