- Challenging opportunity with global clients and markets with exposure to funding corporate working capital, refinancing, sustainable finance, and merger & acquisition transactions
- Opportunity to work on global bond origination, US Private Placement, institutional term loan and loan syndication activities
- Opportunities for career progression in Corporate Origination and throughout the NAB Corporate and Institutional business in to manage clients and lead transactions in the Corporate and Institutional space
About us:
NAB Corporate Finance (CF) plays a leading role in funding Australian businesses by both providing lending and an access point to global capital markets. The Corporate Origination team plays a significant role, acting as the borrower advocate in important debt capital markets, loan underwriting/bridge and loan syndication transactions for the NAB corporate client base.
About the role:
The Associate role will support the Corporate Originations team with the origination of bonds and syndicated loans for corporate clients.
Recognising it is a team effort, this role will contribute to providing consistently excellent coverage of clients in all bond and loan markets, as well as assisting senior members of the team identify and then execute debt capital markets, underwriting and loan syndication transactions.
The role requires collaboration with NAB colleagues who are also involved in the debt capital market and loan syndication value chain within our public and private syndicate teams, institutional sales, and client coverage teams. You will also work closely with important external stakeholders including borrower/issuer clients and investors such as other banks and institutional investors to ensure high quality and memorable execution of capital markets transactions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support senior team members in managing coverage of clients, understanding debt markets, sustainable finance trends and identifying opportunities
- Actively participate in deal teams and support the deal process in conjunction with our Syndicate teams
- Provide client management support which may include provision of pricing and market updates, writing of pitches and RFPs, research, active file management, following up on client queries and engagement with other stakeholders
- Contribute to CIB and CF goals – delivering for our Customers, delivering our accelerated One NAB Plan, delivering our financial & engagement aspirations and proactively managing risk.
- Manage and maintain client relationships and originate and execute transactions in support of Directors
- Understand market conditions, pricing, issuance activity, regulations and other factors influencing potential outcomes for our clients.
About You:
We would love to hear from you if you have finance experience working in or close to the debt capital markets or loan syndication space and have a passion for working in the flow of debt capital markets or loan syndication transactions in Australia. You may have direct experience or be working in functions such as client coverage, credit, or specialist product areas, understand debt markets and how market conditions affect pricing/funding opportunities and want to become a specialist capital markets transaction originator.
Our ideal candidate will be a detail focused and a proactive individual with a strong work ethic and have demonstrative ability to meet deadlines in fast paced environments.
Relevant tertiary qualifications with sound experience in a similar is highly desirable along with strong analytical, writing, and fundamental company analysis skills combined with a technical knowledge or keen interest in the bond/loan markets.
What we offer:
This opportunity will give you exposure to a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the business whilst being part of a team that is focussed, smart, hardworking, and passionate about our shared vision to create the absolute best experience for our customers in capital markets. You will benefit from:
- ability to participate actively in a deep flow of capital markets and loan transactions, providing deep knowledge of active markets in Australia
- working at the front line of the sustainability finance space on bond and loan transactions that make a difference beyond the financial realm
- flexible working, the client is focussed on high quality execution and output and we are focussed on delivering this rather than where you are
- direct access to clients early, our team is clear that learning comes from doing and interacting directly is the best way to build client management skills
- working in a team of established market professionals that are passionate about coaching, training and personal development of our team and their skills
- market leading syndicate, sales and sustainability financing teams that will work together with you collaboratively to provide high quality execution of transactions
- excellent career progression opportunities within the Corporate Origination team but also more broadly inside the Corporate and
- Institutional Banking business or NAB in general
As the successful applicant you will be rewarded with a structured career path within Corporate Finance that offers a competitive market salary, annual performance incentives, and a flexible working environment.
NAB, Invested in you:
You’ll have the opportunity to continue working with some of the industry’s best leaders and client focussed colleagues across a range of industry sectors. You'll be able to elevate your brand with senior decision makers and key stakeholders across the Enterprise giving you the chance to springboard further career mapping and structured progression opportunities longer term.
To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status.
To help keep our community safe, candidates who are based in NSW will need to comply with the latest directions issued by NSW’s Chief Health Officer.
