R0441255 APAC Financing – Associate

Details of the Division and Team:

APAC Financing is seeking an Associate Candidate to assist in arranging, underwriting, structuring, and executing complex structured finance transactions including senior, stretched-senior, and unitranche loans, mezzanine and subordinate financings, often involving a cross-border or multi-jurisdictional element.  APAC Financing covers a broad range of business areas, sectors, and strategies including sponsor-driven corporate LBOs, leveraged lending, commercial real estate (all asset classes, all stages of development), renewables, and special situations. 

The successful Candidate should be hard-working, creative, diligent, professional, and be able to work independently as well as part of a dynamic team. We place a high degree of importance on working effectively with, and gaining consensus from, a wide range of internal and external groups, with frequent interaction with key stakeholders across Asia, including Japan, and around the globe. Most importantly, the Candidate should thoroughly enjoy working in an analytical, fast-paced, growth-oriented environment and be comfortable balancing multiple ongoing financing workstreams across a variety of diverse asset classes.

What we will offer you:         

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.

You can expect:

• Flexible benefits plan including virtual doctor consultation services

• Comprehensive leave benefits

• Gender Neutral Parental Leave

• Hybrid working arrangement

• 21 days of annual paid leave, plus public holiday

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

Key Responsibilities:

• Arrange, underwrite, structure and execute transactions as a key member of the deal team;

• Analyze potential transactions from a credit and risk perspective, including performing full and detailed corporate and asset valuations and conducting a comprehensive, thorough due diligence review;

• Perform sophisticated cashflow modelling and sensitivity analyses, as well as analyzing expected returns and performance metrics;

• Engage in client negotiations and assist the documentation process, including liaising with internal and external legal counsel, clients, and other key external parties;

• Explain the credit to key internal stakeholders, and obtain necessary internal approvals;

• Co-work closely with the institutional and regional sales coverage teams regarding loan syndications and derisking activities; and

• Post-closing, continue to monitor the position’s performance and liaise with loan servicers, agents, and asset managers as required.

Your skills and experience:

• Minimum 3 years experience in asset-backed valuations and underwriting, corporate valuations, recourse and non-recourse loan structuring and origination and

• Minimum 3 years experience in the leveraged loan, LBO, and M&A areas;

• Fluency in English and Japanese to work with clients in South Asia and Japan

• Prior working knowledge of accounting, including analysis of financial statements;

• A strong background in identifying, understanding, and underwriting risk;

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills for such key tasks as preparing investment committee memorandums, internal reporting, and client presentations.

• Excellent computer literacy and significant experience using MS Office, particularly Excel;

• Team player with strong mentality and motivation to contribute

About us and our teams:

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