Loans Agency Transaction Management Vice President

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Job Overview

Key responsibilities are:

• Involvement with senior stakeholders/business heads to discuss new deal flows and attending front office pipeline meetings

• Liaise with arrangers, lawyers and the originating business areas in the review and negotiation of complex draft loan / credit documentation from an operational, legal and agent’s role perspective. Provide comments, requests for amendments, and feedback as necessary.

• Act as an escalation point within the team when staff need assistance

• Review the most complex facility documentation, particularly with new types of product, negotiate the terms and conditions, and establish the procedures to handle them, providing a template for future deals of a similar structure.

• Attend meetings/calls with front office personnel to ensure understanding of the responsibilities of the agent role for individual transactions. 

• Review and manage complex waiver/amendment/restructuring requests

• Manage complex actual or potential events of default. Take the lead in negotiating on syndicate’s behalf where necessary, and oversee calls and meetings with syndicate

• Co-ordinate and lead event driven calls with lenders/lawyers

• Take a key role as a senior SME and have the necessary technical skills to build relationships with stakeholders,  help manage the workflows across the team, providing guidance to, sharing knowledge with, and mentoring the less experienced members of the team

• Provide information, instructions and guidance to the agency operations team to enable deal onboarding and loan booking.

Qualifications:

• Individual must have excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.

• Individual must work well under tight deadlines, manage priorities, and complete assigned tasks with minimal management follow up. 

• Keen attention to detail

• Developed analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Client relationship and solution skills

Experience required includes:

• Responsibilities of the facility agent, and any legal, regulatory, credit, or financial restrictions

• Risks the facility agent is exposed to

• LMA and LSTA loan documentation

• Common market and business practices

• Structure of the different types of facility

• Commercial aspects of the different types of business

• Roles of other parties to syndicated loan documentation e.g. Security Agent, Account Bank, Intercreditor Agent, Arranger

• Debt workout situations

• Treatment of L/Cs, guarantees, and ancillary facilities,

Additional non-core qualifications which will be considered are:

• Knowledge of withholding tax rules and regulations, particularly treatment of FATCA.

• Understanding of other products and how they may integrate with the loans product

• knowledge of operational procedures such as rate fixings, rollovers and payments

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Job Family Group:

Operations - Transaction Services

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Job Family:

Transaction Capture Services

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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