Associate Structured Export Finance

Associate Structured Export Finance (“SEF”)

Vacancy concerns Product Finance III position within the Structured Export Finance team based in Amsterdam. This team resides in the WB Lending/Transaction Management department. The role concerns working in the front office within a team of currently 12 dedicated professionals, where you will be involved in the structuring, execution and monitoring of medium to long term export finance transactions for a specific portfolio of clients with strong focus on sustainable transactions. The position involves contact with clients, prospects, export credit agencies, banks, technical and legal advisors as well as cooperation with internal functions such as Credit Risk Management, Legal, Operations, the Environmental and Social Risk team and Transaction Management and Sector teams. It also involves supporting the team with various internal systems and (regulatory) projects as well as administrative tasks.

Organizational context
Structured Export Finance is part of Lending within ING Wholesale Banking. The SEF global network consists of units located in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Singapore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo with a total staff of approximately 50 professionals. The SEF Amsterdam team is responsible for the Dutch, UK and Nordic (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway) export markets as well as the Africa and Middle East import markets.

Responsibilities
As Associate your key responsibilities will include:

• Assist and participate in developing and maintaining client relationships with (i) exporters of capital goods and related services (ii) importers/borrowers in emerging markets (iii) Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) in the exporting in order to mitigate the political and commercial risks involved in export financings and (iv) semi-governmental agencies engaged in trade promotion.
• Support origination and marketing activities: prepare presentations, term sheets and occasionally participate in meetings with clients.
• In co-operation with other Transaction Management teams participate in the creation of credit applications and interact with risk management for the credit approval process.
• Transaction execution: assist in structuring and concluding (complex) transactions, participate in negotiations of loan documents, interact with all parties involved in the financing package.
• Assist in and follow-up on leads and queries from other units within the SEF global network.
• In co-operation with SEF Portfolio Management, monitor relevant part of the existing portfolio transactions, process clients’ amendment and waiver requests and assist in preparing annual credit reviews.
• Assist in performing research queries in markets/technologies/regulatory frameworks.

Qualification Requirements

• Committed self-starting professional  with attention to detail and ability to work in a structured way
• Some relevant work experience, preferably in project finance and/or the financing of internationally operating companies and/or a credit related environment
• University degree in e.g. finance, engineering or law 
• Self-critical with demonstrated ability to perform under tight deadlines
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to swiftly identify the key issues (including legal/technical aspects) in transaction structures
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skillsGood communicator with interpersonal skills / team player
• Fluency in English (verbal and in writing) is a must; another language is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to function in a team environment and adaptability to work with co-workers.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself, and we want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life.

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary indication of 5.212 - 8.387 EUR based on 36 hours per week, tailored to your qualities and experience in global job grade 17
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• 12-month contract with view to extend
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: