Job responsibilities
- Assisting internal transaction teams on new originations and restructurings with material complex legal, financial, reputational, and jurisdictional issues and coordinate with payments and operations partners to mitigate potential payments or settlement risk
- Collaborating with internal deal teams including Corporate/Financial Institutions Group/Emerging Markets Credit Risk Management, Coverage, Global Corporate Bank, Leveraged Finance, Payments, Legal, Compliance and Secondary Loan trading; reviewing complex legal, financial and jurisdictional issues with an objective of improving credit structures on transactions
- Working with lenders, company management, financial advisors, and outside counsel on generating optimal solutions for the repayment of credit exposure and preserving important client relationships
- Assisting in the credit decision-making process in live stressed/distressed situations on an advisory/managed basis
- Preparing quarterly Credit Surveillance, accounting and regulatory reporting on portfolio names
- Developing exposure management and evaluating loan sale opportunities, preparing valuations on securities/ other instruments received from previous restructurings and formulating trading and disposal strategies
- Other responsibilities will include providing leadership on the wholesale regulatory, accounting and risk reporting agenda as well as other SCG-specific activities including crisis management and problem credit playbooks
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- At least 6 years of Credit Risk management and/or Leveraged Finance experience
- Relevant restructuring or leveraged finance structuring experience across multiple jurisdictions, as well as previous exposure to managing large lending syndicates or executing complex leveraged transactions
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Able to work well under pressure in a demanding environment
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Prior experience serving on creditors’ committees
- Strong network across major restructuring financial and legal advisory firms