Job purpose:

The job requires close collaboration with colleagues on the Structured Solutions desk to provide structuring support for trades taken up by the desk. The candidate will also be helping senior Structurers on live trades while also undertaking projects to set up new products.

The candidate will also be involved in strategic tasks of the Structuring desk, within the desk’s global mandate.

Structured Solutions Trading, Structuring and Sales: engages in the full suite of credit related products and providing asset and liability management solutions to internal or external clients (yield enhancement solutions, risk management strategies, financing structures as well as delivering balance sheet optimization).

Key activities:

• Structuring credit solutions for clients of the bank, involving discussions with clients, idea generation, documentation negotiation and client presentation.
• Co-ordinate medium-sized projects including NPPs, identifying resource requirements, monitoring performance against objectives and acting to ensure targets are met and products are approved.
• Work on and devise new and innovative structures, demonstrating technical knowledge and commercial judgement.
• Develop and define processes, systems and procedures ensuring standards and requirements are met and improving efficiency.
• Initiate actions to further improve skills and performance, continuously looking for opportunities for own professional development.
• Work closely with Sales colleagues to generate new trade leads and structures.
• Ensure that trades and structures are efficient from a tax and regulatory perspective, with ongoing monitoring of changes in rules and regulations.
• Presentation to senior management, including attending management or risk committees to present trades and seek approval.
• Work closely with Legal and Operations colleagues to ensure trades are structured in a legally efficient manner and trades can be handled operationally by the bank.
• Responsibilities may also include reports generation, presentations preparation, trade inputs, gathering market information and others.