Transactor at Liberty Resourcing

About the job
TRANSACTOR
Location open – London, Cape Town, Johannesburg flexible.
(Main Offices in London (City) and Cape Town)
Our client a Merchant Bank is looking for a Transactor with a good knowledge and experience in African trade finance, specifically in the Southern Africa regions.
Essential Criteria before you apply: 

• At least 5 years’ experience in banking or related financial services in a trade finance role, incorporating vanilla and structured trade finance.
• Knowledge and understanding of trade finance and STCF transactions
• Willingness to travel
• Experience of dealing with/or in sub-Saharan Africa;
• Knowledge of legal documentation in Trade Finance / STCF;

This bank provides corporate finance advisory, trade finance and asset finance solutions for businesses active in the high growth markets of sub-Saharan Africa. They are African specialists and have a proven track-record of successfully managing funds for investing in both the private debt and public equity markets whilst completing many private equity and long-term debt deals in their advisory business.

In addition, they provide bespoke, secured, and structured trade finance solutions for African focused trade.

The role reports to the commercial manager. The Transactor is a client facing position in the Front Office. You will be involved in the origination of new clients and transactions into our business and includes the structuring and execution of those transactions through to closing.

Responsibilities:

• Generating new STCF business leads;
• Relationship management of new and existing clients;
• Engage with parties regarding possibility of doing new business (Introducers, Prospective Clients
• Screen deals to ensure they fit credit criteria and strategy;
• Structure transactions with applicable controls, interest rate, LTV, tenor, security, etc;
• Negotiation of term sheets to execution
• Collection of all relevant supporting documentation (including KYC);
• Site visit of prospective client's offices and operational facilities in Africa and other International locations,
• Compiling credit papers for new transactions
• Presenting credit papers to Credit Committee;
• Preparation of Indicative Term Sheets and Offer Letters;