Director, Natural Resources Energy and Carbon

You are a driven individual with an ambition to take a senior project finance role covering the renewable energy sectors. We are a globally recognised Bank with a focus on supporting clients through the energy transition. Together we achieve great things!

About us:

Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) is responsible for managing the Group’s relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, and provides a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services.

Our purpose is to: Build Australia’s future economy. IB&M also performs an important internal role for the Group by providing global markets, trade finance, corporate and institutional lending to other CBA business units that allows them to capture opportunities with business and retail customers.

See yourself in the team:

Global Institutional Banking Coverage (GIBC or Coverage) leads banking relationship management and the provision of transaction banking, risk management and capital solutions to our clients. The team’s purpose is to provide IB&M clients with solutions across the financing spectrum to support their strategic objectives. GIBC teams include:

• Institutional Client Coverage (ICC) – supporting our clients within Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFI) and Banks, Government & Education (BGOVE)  
• Corporate Client Coverage (CCC) – supporting our clients within Industrials, Transport & Consumers (ITC) as well as Future Cities & Network (FCN)
• Natural Resources, Energy & Carbon (NREC)

The New York based NREC team is focused on North American renewable energy and commodities clients supporting their financing needs in line with the IB&M purpose as they navigate the global shift to a low carbon economy.  Project finance is a core product for our renewable energy customers.

Do work that matters:

As a Director working within the New York based NREC team you will play an important role in managing client relationship and origination activities for North America with a primary focus on project finance solutions for clients within the renewable energy sector. The role presents a great opportunity to take a senior role within an experienced team covering a client base of leading renewable energy developers, corporates and investors as they contribute to the energy transition.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Leading client engagement across the renewables and commodities sectors, developing and owning relationships with client C-Suite and Treasury teams.
• Originating financing opportunities across the CBA product suite, delivering innovative structured product solutions in line with client objectives.
• Developing and implementing marketing and targeted client engagement strategies underpinned by an ability to be a thought leader and provide unique insights based on market conditions impacting clients.
• Product structuring & distribution, including analysing and negotiating transaction opportunities in line with client requirements and CBA risk appetite.
• Leading the internal credit approval and execution process for new financing opportunities, managing more junior members of the team and providing oversight of transaction due diligence, credit paper drafting and documentation review.
• Working with internal stakeholders across Risk, Product and internal support functions to effectively deliver on the execution of new financing opportunities in line with client requirements and working to tight deadlines as required.
• Managing and motivating more junior team members in line with business objectives, contributing to action planning to ensure effective team culture, taking ownership/accountability for team actions and delivering strong communication and composure, drive and commitment to meet tight transaction deadlines.
• Driving team to actively participate in generating and delivering industry leading thought leadership to position CBA as experts across the renewables and commodities sectors, both internally and externally.

We are interested in hearing from you if you have:

• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven people leader within a large, complex internationally active organisation.
• Advanced understanding of the industry sectors and the key drivers affecting the industry.
• Familiarity across product capabilities including corporate finance, debt capital markets, global markets and risk management, cash management and payments.
• Experience in engaging and building credibility and strong relationships with clients at C-suite level and anticipating client requirements.
• Track record of building and leveraging effective relationships across an organisation to deliver against finan