Deal Maker Leverage Finance at FNB South Africa

Are you someone who can:

• Collaborate closely with relevant coverage teams and FNB product houses to identify funding opportunities
• Understand and stay close to the needs, demands, perceptions and lending behaviours of a client portfolio to ensure successful deal origination
• Understand key competitors, global trends, sector dynamics and key macro environmental forces to analyse and identify Bank-wide opportunities and challenges. This includes participation and involvement with industry/regulatory forums (where relevant)
• Understand the critical micro-environmental impacts and relationships i.e., client performance trends, financial data, debt profile, gearing, projected cash flows, operations to identify and persuade stakeholders to adopt differentiated funding solutions e.g., acquisition and empowerment financing
• Analyse financial statements in depth and calculate debt carrying capacity and optimal funding structures
• Understand the Bank’s credit policies and lending criteria and be confident to present to a national credit committee and to debate sustainable levels of debt and debt carrying capacity for prospective clients with the committee
• Formulate solutioning approaches where considerations will include client requirements, regulations, internal risk frameworks, pricing, term and funding mechanisms
• Have strategic discussions about business and industry at group CFO and CEO level

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a minimum of a relevant BCom Degree in Law, Accounting, Commerce, Finance or related (Qualified CA preferred)
• Have a minimum of 5 years leveraged finance and dealmaking experience, with an existing network in the private equity industry
• Can interpret financial statements and financial ratios
• Can build complex financial forecast models in Excel

End Date: March 25, 2026