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Job Responsibilities
- Working as a team to negotiate and develop recommendations for new transaction approvals across a variety of products including secured and unsecured loans (general corporate purposes or event driven), derivatives, trade and treasury products
- Leading due diligence and credit analysis to assess the credit worthiness of counterparties and make recommendations as to appropriate structure, risk appetite and grading.
- Leading structuring and documentation negotiations (Investment Grade or Leveraged), derivatives and other facilities
- Commitment to development personally and foster team knowledge. Coaching & training members of the Analyst and Associate community on both technical and professional skills.
- Ongoing credit risk portfolio management including monitoring of credit ratings, sector trends and client performance.
- Balancing a commercial and solution-driven mindset with a sound risks & controls attitude to the Firm’s balance sheet.
- Proven ability to develop close working relationships at senior levels with a variety of stakeholders within the Commercial & Investment Bank, including Coverage/Corporate Bank (mid and large caps) product specialists (DCM, LF, Trade, TSS), Markets (Derivative Sales), Capital Markets and M&A.
- Understands J.P. Morgan’s Risk management policies and related interactions with various stakeholders, including Regulators and Auditors
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Sound credit skills and judgment, with a proactive and flexible approach to coordinating and leading credit processes as well as identifying key risks and appropriate mitigants.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills. Be able to establish credibility and trust with internal business and risk stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of transaction structures, documentation and banking products sufficient to lead the execution of new deals and portfolio workstreams.
- Experience in Sponsor deal financings or expertise in relevant Industrial sectors is beneficial but not essential.
- Ability to be a self-starter while being able to work effectively in a team environment.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a comparable environment.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Previous experience leading loan documentation negotiations/core corporate derivative documentation is recommended (Investment Grade, Leverage Finance, Sponsor LBO).
- Previous experience leading loan documentation negotiations for Innovation Economy clients preferred.