14 Oct
VERA Security
Abu Dhabi
Executive Director- Sovereign Wealth Funds & Financial Sponsors - Family Office Coverage
- Full-time
- Division: Investment Banking Group
Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders, and communities to grow through differentiation, agility, and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark at a top company, in an exciting & dynamic industry.
Job Purpose:
To manage and grow client business for Sovereign Wealth Funds & Financial Sponsors; originate mandates by conducting market and industry analysis. Propose existing product offerings to clients and explore new products to fulfill clients’ financial needs. Identify and develop business opportunities, drive presentations, and maintain contact with clients at an increasingly senior level; improve service quality levels and supervise day-to-day activities and deal flow by giving strong support focus to relationship management and client interactions; ensure that the team’s objectives are constantly met and its revenue targets achieved, while maintaining client satisfaction and portfolio credit quality; anticipate potential problems and consistently generate innovative solutions; manage and lead junior team members.
Key Accountabilities:
Strategic Contribution:
- Ensure effective cascading of the functional strategy into department business plans to ensure vertical alignment and horizontal integration with other interfacing departmental strategies.
- Work with Managing Directors to develop the team’s strategy and business plan with the aim of increasing the Bank’s share of the target clients’ wallet and achieving target relationship returns.
- Keep close interaction with Product teams and other stakeholders, to maximize business opportunities with clients, and to streamline execution of deals and strategies.
- Use Investment Banking product knowledge to strategically contribute to teams' revenue targets.
People Management:
- Contribute to talent development initiatives for the assigned department, collaborating with technical/discipline experts and thereby ensure the availability of talent to fit business requirements.
- Act as a role model and drive adherence to organizational values and ethics by employees of the assigned department to foster a value-driven culture within the Group.
Budgeting and Financial Planning:
- Manage P&L; responsibility of the assigned portfolio, achieving targets within defined budget levels.
- Manage and ensure effective implementation of the CIB functional policies, procedures, and controls covering all areas of assigned department activity so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.
Client and Market Analysis:
- Participate in the financial analysis conducted on clients and their respective industries/markets to identify potential opportunities and risks.
Client Relationship Management:
- Originate new business opportunities with Sovereign Wealth Funds and Family Offices clients across banking products with a focus on structured finance, fund financing, financial advisory, global and capital (debt and equity) markets transactions.
- Review and execute term sheets, info memos, finance documents (facility agreements, fee letters, legal opinions, etc.), financial modeling, mandate letters, etc.
- Examine & resolve credit, market, and operational risk aspects of the transactions in collaboration with internal stakeholders (product, legal, compliance, operations, etc.).
- Pitch, review, negotiate, and conclude deals.
- Motivate, develop, and coach team members.
- Maintain the credit quality of the clients' relationships within the Portfolio to an acceptable level set by the Bank’s management.
- Achieve individual and team financial performance targets.
- Identify & develop cross-selling opportunities and increase the cross-sell ratio with key clients.
- Ensure Account Plans are prepared and maintained for all key clients.
- Ensure all clients’ files/documents are maintained.
- Ensure all credit reviews are submitted on time and agreed conditions are met.
- Maintain a satisfactory audit on the portfolio.
- Learning & Development – Attend appropriate on and off-the-job training programs and ensure development and skill upgradation of team members.
- Ensure that all internal processes for existing portfolio and NTBs are met in line with the Bank’s policies & procedures.
- Adhere to process KPI’s and ORM, BCP & Internal Audit requirements.
Day-to-Day Activities:
- Assist the Sector Head in the day-to-day administrative and transactional activities to ensure continuity of work and the delivery of effective and high-quality outputs.
- Manage and follow up on KYC and compliance requirements in order to ensure consistency with the Bank’s KYC and AML policies and regulatory requirements.
Policies, Systems, Processes, and Procedures:
- Follow all relevant policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
MIS and Reports:
- Review and analyze financial statements, MIS and reports to keep track of performance vs. budgets.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, economics, finance, accounting, or related discipline.
- At least 10+ years of relevant Corporate and Investment Banking work experience including M&A;, global markets and capital markets (debt and equity) transactions, structured finance, fund financing, and transaction banking.
Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:
- Advanced understanding of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Financial Sponsors dynamics, financing requirements, and behaviors.
- Strong knowledge of the wide range of CIB products (structured finance, fund financing, global markets,
mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital markets, transaction banking, etc.).
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▶️ Executive Director- Sovereign Wealth Funds & Financial Sponsors - Family Office Coverage
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