BMO Capital Markets New Grad 2025: Global Markets Corporate Banking, Analyst

Application Deadline:

12/26/2024

Address:

100 King Street West

Job Family Group:

Capital Mrkts Sales & Service

BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American-based financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has over 2,800 professionals in 35 locations around the world, including 23 offices in North America.

BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$924 billion total assets and approximately 57,000 employees as of April 30, 2023.

About Corporate Banking:

Corporate Banking is an integral part of BMO Capital Markets’ Investment and Corporate Banking group which offers corporate, institutional and government clients a complete range of financial services, including lending, equity and debt capital raising, structured finance, M&A, treasury and market risk management services, research and institutional investing. Corporate Banking is responsible for the marketing, management and monitoring of the Bank's corporate loan portfolio, and also supports the credit requirements and cross selling efforts for other businesses including derivatives, foreign exchange, cash management, and trade finance.

Global Markets Corporate Banking:

Global Markets Corporate Banking is an integral part of BMO Capital Markets’ Global Markets group, and provides and underwrites trading & loan credit facilities for a broad range of capital markets clients.  The products include (but are not limited to): Derivatives, Securities Financing, Cash Products, Metals & Commodities Solutions, Margin Lending, CMBS warehouse, RMBS Warehouse,  and Securitization Products. The group is organized under 7 key portfolios: Fund Managers, Hedge Funds, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS), Securitization & Structured Margin Loans, Commodities & Metals, Single Products, and Mortgage Originators + Broker Dealers). The group is responsible for underwriting, obtaining credit approvals, ongoing portfolio management, and maintaining strong client relationships.

What will you do?

• Research and analyze financial and operating information relating to current and prospective companies and industries.
• Prepare concise, accurate and well-reasoned written credit applications and memoranda for both new and existing transactions for presentation to Credit.
• Maintain current financial information on clients in order to perform timely annual reviews, financial covenants, and internal trigger monitoring.
• Perform financial statement analysis including completion of spreading software (RRT).
• Conduct credit risk analysis of transactions using all available sources of information including, but not limited to financial statements, legal documentation, etc.
• Assess financial soundness of counterparties including appropriate debt levels, debt service and repayment capabilities.
• Analyze transactions for structural strengths and weaknesses and structure appropriately to mitigate weaknesses.
• Review credit documentation for conformity with approved Credit terms and conditions.

Partnership Efforts

• Liaise with Global Markets areas and with various lines of business and operational areas of the Bank as required.
• Support Global Markets areas on portfolio management needs and growth initiatives of the business.
• Assist in updating Financing Guidelines.
• Participate in various projects as required.

What you will need to succeed

• An undergraduate degree with outstanding academic achievement.  Specific academic coursework in finance, economics, or accounting is preferred.
• Exposure with corporate banking experience in a corporate lending environment
• Credit analysis exposure.
• General knowledge of loans and derivative facilities.
• Knowledge of capital markets, investment banking products and applicable regulations.
• Knowledge of organizational lending and portfolio management policies and objectives.
• Excellent analytical skills to include business, financial, and credit analysis areas.
• Strong interpersonal skills used within a collaborative and demanding team environment.
• Strong proficiency in other Microsoft Office products including MS Word and PowerPoint.
• Strong ability to attentively review, assess, and provide detailed information daily on multiple projects in an organ