Associate Principal: Mining

Job Family- Investment Banking

**Job Purpose**
- To maximize sustainable revenue streams and manage risk through originating, structuring, implementing and monitoring long-term debt financing transactions for clients in the mining, chemicals, metals and mining services sectors across the African continent.
- To provide technical advice and support to deal teams on transactions with notable technical risk.**Responsibilities**:

- Provide support to deal teams when originating transactions through extensive research, networking, opportunity evaluation and proposal preparation.
- Actively participate in deal teams when implementing and monitoring transactions by:
- on-boarding clients;
- assessing due diligence outcomes;
- providing technical advice and support from a geological, mining engineering and processing perspective, including site visits where necessary;
- interrogating financial models and financial statements;
- structuring transactions;
- running rating and pricing calculations and approvals;
- preparing term sheets;
- reviewing finance documents and participating in the negotiation thereof;
- fulfilling conditions precedent;
- continuously assessing client performance and completing annual credit reviews; and
- ensuring regulatory compliance (sanctions and adverse media screening and adherence to FICA or KYC regulations, policies, and procedures).- Provide technical advice and support to other deal teams in the business and the broader portfolio from a geological, mining engineering and processing perspective, including site visits where necessary.
- Lead technical discussions with Independent Technical Engineers appointed by Nedbank or lenders in a syndicate to understand, evaluate and assess technical risks.
- Build and maintain strong client and external stakeholder relationships, including with Independent Technical Engineers, by networking and conferencing, maintaining regular contact, ongoing communication and attending meetings and site visits.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders by building trust, promoting collaboration, communicating regularly, executing efficiently and complying with governance and controls.
- Be the interface between clients and Nedbank’s Social and Environmental Risk (SEMS) team.
- Support the achievement of the team’s business strategy, objectives and values by contributing to business plans, improving systems and processes and training junior team members.
- Get involved in ad hoc projects by providing research, advice, training, testing and implementation.
- Actively seek cross-sell opportunities for the products of other Nedbank divisions.
- Manage personal development by acting on feedback from managers and team members, actively accepting on-the-job training and pursuing relevant training courses.
- Stay abreast of developments in the mining, chemicals, metals, and mining services sectors.
- Stay abreast of developments in Nedbank 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 - NQF Level- Honours degree in Engineering, Sciences, Finance or Accounting.
- Preferred Qualification- Mining Engineering, Geology or Metallurgical Engineering, ideally combined with some financial qualification, such as CFA or MBA.
- Minimum Experience Level- Minimum of 6 to 8 years of relevant experience in corporate, commercial or investment banking and/or in the mining, chemicals, metals or mining services sectors, with a preference for meaningful work experience at mining operations.
- Technical / Professional Knowledge- Advanced mining sector knowledge and technical expertise
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills
- Advanced business writing skills
- Advanced research capabilities
- Intermediate financial and business acumen
- Intermediate banking industry knowledge
- Intermediate project management skills
- Behavioural Competencies- Client centric
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Diligent and pro-active
- Attention to detail
- Financially literate
- Networking and relationship building
- Willingness to learn and develop
- Time management
- Employment Equity Statement- Preference will be given to individuals from underrepresented groups
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_