The role involves originating debt transactions for corporations and financial institutions in Australia and New Zealand, with a product range that includes syndicated loans, acquisition finance, leveraged finance, SEC-registered and 144A bonds, US private placements, Euro bonds, high-yield bonds, liability management, and hybrid issues.
This position will primarily focus on syndicated loans, acquisition finance, leverage finance and high yield bonds for corporate clients and sponsors.
**Responsibilities**:
- Direct coverage of DCM corporate and financial clients
- Assisting with the origination and execution of offshore market bond transactions
- Maintaining a current understanding of trends in the local and international debt capital markets, and communicating this via market updates to internal and external stakeholders
- Supporting a deal or project team with analytical and research support
- Compiling briefing books with company and industry information and coordinating pitch book creation
- Performing comparables analyses across borrowers and markets
- Building financial projection models
- Liaising with other internal and external parties on transactions (eg. lawyers, accountants, other banks)
- Supporting due diligence & negotiations
- Involvement in Q&A process / management interviews
**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Minimum 5 years proven experience in finance or law
- Strong accounting, finance, quantitative and business writing skills
- Sound technical and valuation skills, and understanding of global debt capital markets
- Strong project management capability