Senior Associate: Sustainable Finance Solutions
12 hours ago
**Job Purpose**
- To maximize sustainable finance revenue streams and manage risk through identifying, solutioning, assessing and implementing sustainable finance solutions / transactions for clients across sectors and across the African continent, by collaborating with various teams.
**Responsibilities**:
- Conduct opportunity identification, evaluation and assessment in line with agreed strategy and established methodologies and frameworks
- Prepare client proposals for client pitches and assist with drafting responses to Requests for Proposals (RFSs)
- Actively participate in deal teams when solutioning, assessing and implementing transactions by:
- Assessing sustainability strategies, generating ideas, and structuring and/or analysing key sustainability performance indicators and targets for sustainability linked transactions and eligibility criteria for “use of proceeds” transactions
- Conducting due diligence and providing input into commercial terms as relates to the sustainable finance aspects of the transaction
- Liaising with key stakeholders to ensure relevant sign offs are obtained
- Interfacing with sustainability co-ordinator under debt syndication/auction processes and providing input into the transaction, including Q&A and ensuring relevant approvals are obtained within transaction timelines
- Drafting and providing sustainable finance analysis / commentary into relevant papers for approval committees
- Guiding and providing input into sustainability pricing for sustainable finance solution transactions
- Preparing sustainability terms/provisions for term sheets and negotiating terms;
- Reviewing legal documentation and sustainability terms/provisions and term negotiation;
- Sustainability co-ordinate transactions and prepare sustainability information memoranda where Nedbank Sustainable Finance Solutions is mandated as sustainability co-ordinator under market processes
- Develop and draft sustainable finance frameworks for clients where Nedbank, Sustainable Finance Solutions is mandated fulfilling conditions precedent;
- Performing assessment of performance against sustainability KPIs / “use of proceeds” when certificates are furnished by borrowers
- complying with internal risk policies, procedures and mandates; and ensuring regulatory compliance (sanctions and adverse media screening and adherence to FICA or KYC regulations, policies and procedures)
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders by building trust, promoting collaboration, communicating regularly, executing efficiently and complying with governance and controls.
- Support the achievement of the team’s business strategy, objectives and values by contributing to business plans and improving systems and processes.
- Get involved in ad hoc projects by providing research and input
- Actively seek new solutions which could be embedded and/or positioned with clients
- Actively seek cross-sell opportunities for the products of other Nedbank divisions.
- Manage personal development by acting on feedback from managers and deal team members, actively accepting on-the-job training and pursuing relevant training courses.
- Stay abreast of evolving developments in the sustainable finance space
- Stay abreast of developments in Nedbank CIB and in investment banking in general.
- Make a positive contribution towards a high-performance team culture.
- Be an ambassador of Nedbank and exhibit its purpose and values.
- Essential Qualifications
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification
- Bachelor of Business Science
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
- Honours or Masters degree in Engineering or Finance
- Sustainable Finance Principles / Course
- Essential Certifications
- Minimum Experience Level
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in corporate, commercial or investment banking and/or in the corporate sector in a treasury role, with a preference for experience related to sustainable finance transactions.
**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Business Acumen
- Business principles
- Business writing
- Data analysis
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Principles of financial management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Research methodology
- Relevant product knowledge
- Behavioural Competencies
- Applied Learning
- Communication
- Collaborating
- Building partnerships
- Managing Work
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Employment Equity Statement
- Preference to be given to underrepresented groups
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_
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