About the Role
Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is seeking a VP, PDM Corporate, CRE & Principal Finance for Europe to analyze underwriting and value-added opportunities, manage deal structuring, pricing, and distribution strategies, and support client meetings and presentations.
Responsibilities
- Analysis of underwriting and/or value-added opportunities across Corporate, Commercial Real Estate (CRE) and Principal Finance sectors
- Working closely with Corporate Loan Origination, CRE Loan Origination and Principal & Capital Finance teams on the deal structuring, pricing and distribution strategy of financing opportunities
- Managing underwriting, syndication and sell-down processes in both primary and secondary markets, partnering with Loan Sales, Market Sales and wider PDM teams
- Supporting meetings with clients and investors, preparing credit and underwriting applications, and delivering commercial presentations to internal and external stakeholders
- Providing market intelligence on investor appetite, pricing trends, comparable transactions and emerging market developments to support successful transaction execution
Requirements
- Previous experience in a similar role within PDM
- Direct experience within the corporate loan market, including origination and/or syndication activities
- In-depth understanding of loan structuring, pricing, credit analysis and legal documentation review
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with clients, investors and internal stakeholders
- Well-developed awareness of financial markets, risk management principles and regulatory requirements relevant to wholesale banking activities
Skills
- Loan structuring
- Pricing
- Credit analysis
- Legal documentation review
- Financial markets awareness
- Risk management principles
- Loan distribution
- Portfolio sales
- CLO
- TRS
- Risk-transfer solutions
- Institutional investor markets
- Private debt distribution strategies
Location
- United Kingdom
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- VP
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in Finance, Engineering, Mathematics or Science
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- 8% of salary into pension (company contribution)
- Up to 12.5% of salary into pension (company contribution, matched)
- Option to take some pension contribution in cash
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (increases to 31 after 5 years)
- Option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
- Company-funded individual private medical insurance
- Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates (family medical insurance, dental insurance, health assessments)
- Company-funded death-in-service benefit
- Company-funded income protection insurance
- Option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover
- Share in Santander’s success via share plans
About the Company
- Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customised services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.
- Private Debt Mobilization (“PDM”) brings together the various private-side distribution and structuring teams from the bank’s corporate and institutional businesses, including private-side structuring, managing underwriting risk, loan primary and secondary syndication, securitization, structured sales, private placement, repackaging, credit insurance and trade distribution teams.
- Our work touches 140 million lives every day. By always innovating, sharing our experiences, questioning how we do things and adapting to new challenges. As we keep reinventing ourselves for the digital age, even the smallest action will have a massive impact. That’s the Santander Effect.
Equal Opportunity
- Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation.
- We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates.
