PDM Debt Finance Expert
Country: Spain
**IT STARTS HERE**
This is more than a strategic shift. **It’s a chance for**driven professionals**to grow, learn, and make a real difference**.
Our mission is to contribute to help more **people and businesses prosper**. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.
**Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB)**is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.
**THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE**
Private Debt Mobilisation (PDM) is the department of Banco Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) that is responsible for the distribution to investors of all private credit risk assets of CIB. This includes underwriting transactions, managing the underwriting risk of the bank, and syndicating, distributing, and hedging those transactions. This role is an Executive Director level role in the PDM Trade & Working Capital Solutions (TWCS) team, responsible for PDM activity for TWCS transactions.
We need someone like you to help us with the following tasks:
- Setting and defining the strategy of the structured trade PDM business globally.
- Managing and progressing new distribution initiatives and projects across all trade asset classes.
- End to end structuring, placement, and syndication of transactions with limited supervision
- Working closing with other members of the team on large complex transactions to ensure smooth execution, including managing directly junior members of the deal team, and successfully managing “upwards” more senior members of the deal team.
- Arranging and attending meetings with investors, and proactively developing reliable relationships with bank investors to become a strong presence in the market as a reliable and credible syndication/distribution professional
- Reviewing documentation during the structuring and execution of transactions and liaising with internal and external counsel as appropriate
- Preparing presentations and teasers for investors
- Liaising with and developing strong relationships with internal counterparties in the TWCS business, Risk, Banking and Corporate Finance, Middle and Back Office and other functions
- As part of a wider team, there will be opportunities in the future for exposure to other asset classes and geographies within TWCS.
**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**
Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organization. We’re **enabling teams to go beyond**by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring.
The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EXPERIENCE
- Direct experience of Structured Trade (Prepayment financing, Pre-export financing, Inventory finance, Borrowing base financing and Trade loans). This could come from a structuring/origination background, or from a syndication role at another bank.
- Knowledge of the other Trade & Working Capital asset classes and structured trade’s position within the trade finance world.
- You will have a continuing interest in, and rounded knowledge of, the financial world in general and the wider markets beyond the TWCS asset class, as well as the Corporate and Investment banking industry and Banco Santander’s place within it.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
- Required:
- Strong comprehensive knowledge of Structured Trade (Prepayment financing, Pre-export financing, Inventory finance, Borrowing base financing and Trade loans), either from a syndication perspective or a structuring/origination perspective.
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive in a versátil, dynamic and demanding work environment, and the ability to think through situations logically and calmly
- Ability to multi-task under pressure, including prioritising tasks, dealing with matrix management and managing upwards
- Superior presentation skills
- Good numerical and Excel skills and an ability to think logically.
- The ability and mindset to train and encourage junior members of the team
- A highly organised mindset and strong work ethic
- Fluency in English.
- Desired:
- Previous experience at a highly regarded corporate/investment bank
- Knowledge of the other Trade Finance asset classes, e.g. Supply Chain Finance, Receivables Finance, Documentary trade.
- The ability to bring new ideas and see them through to completion
- Spanish language helpful.
**WE VALUE YOUR IMPACT**
**Your contribution matters**, and it’s recognized. You can expect a fair, competitive reward package that reflects **the im