ANALYST ERI PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

GROUP BNP PARIBAS

BNP Paribas Group is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment. It has close to 185,000 employees in 65 countries. In Spain we have more than 5,000 employees within 13 business lines.

BNP PARIBAS CIB

BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking provides large companies, multinationals and financial institutions with various solutions in the areas of advisory, financing, transactional banking, capital markets, settlement, clearing and custody of securities, asset and fund management services and solutions for corporate issuers. It has +600 professionals in Spain with offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Coruña. The entity has an internartional network present in 56 countries.

The Energy, Resources & Infrastructure (ERI / Project Finance) team is comprised of c. 130 professionals and has a leading position as adviser and arranger of limited-recourse financing solutions in the following sectors across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region:

•    Infrastructure

•    Power and Renewables

Project Finance / ERI is part of Capital Markets EMEA within CIB. 

The team advises clients with respect to their debt financing needs, arranges and structures debt financing, cross sells other products of the bank (including hedging and cash management solutions), acts as coverage for certain clients and monitors its exposure to transactions on its book.

The team is located in Paris, Brussels, London, Milan and Madrid.

Within Project Finance / ERI, the CPM team is in charge of the due management and proactive monitoring of the closed transactions). 

Your job

You will be focused on the monitoring of a portfolio of existing transactions, preparation of annual reviews and waiver/amendment requests , but also with the analysis and execution of potential refinancing/restructurings of existing transactions, thus allowing you to acquire project finance and infrastructure finance skills. You will also be involved in a variety of transversal tasks allowing a general introduction to ERI business.

You will have an opportunity to work on monitoring duties regarding transactions across several sectors,(mainly infrastructure, power and renewables), with a range of different financing structures in the EMEA region including a.o.:

•    the monitoring of all clients / transactions risks post-closing, during construction and/or operation periods as relevant, for a portfolio of allocated clients / transactions, including without limitation:

•    As relevant attendance to bank meetings, site visits, client meetings and preparation of related reports 

•    Annual reviews are performed on time, waiver / amendment requests are duly handled, covenants are met as requested by documentation, and generally internal processes post closing are met

•    Assiss the RM on the KYC follow-up and its timely renewal

•    Run and/or maintain financial models as needed

•    Liaison with Legal department, RISK department, Middle office and Booking Center, as well as with Agency when relevant  

•    Ensure data quality regular checks

•    Present in and/or attend credit committees

•    Contribute to business opportunities identification for clients under his/her responsibility (refinancings, cross sells) 

•    Based on portfolio analysis and available related information, provide as relevant feedback to other ERI teams on sectorial, technical, regulatory, market, etc developments

•    Support the execution of refinancings, within a team determined by ERI management on a case-by-case basis

Highlight your strengths

•    Master university degree from a reputable university or business school in Business Administration, Finance or Economics or engineering or a comparable education

•    Maximum 4 years professional experience - junior profile

•    Between 3 and 6 years of experience in credit analysis or structured finance

•    Strong analytical competences (credit analysis) and experience in financial modelling 

•    Ability to multi-task and work under pressure

•    Attention to detail and rigour

•    Fluency in English (working language) and fluency in French and/or Dutch would be highly appreciated

•    Notable Excel skills – prior financial modelling experience is highly welcome

BENEFITS

• Training programs, career plans and internal mobility opportunities, national and international thanks to our presence in different countries;
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee that ensures an inclusive work environment. In recent years, several employee communities have been created to organize diversity and inclusion awareness actions (PRIDE, We Generations and MixCity);
• Corporate volunteering program (1 Million Hours 2 Help) in which employees can dedicate time out of their working hours to volunteer activities;
• Competitive compensation plan.
• 32 vacation days

BNP Paribas Group in Spain is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.