About the Role
The Structured Lending Solutions (SLS) team leads Mid-Market Financial Sponsor (MMFS) activity in Australia. This role offers unparalleled transaction experience and exposure to a wide array of structures, working closely with relationship managers and capital financing specialists.
Responsibilities
- Act as a complex credit and debt specialist for the CIB business to assist Relationship Managers in originating and executing corporate event and complex lending transactions.
- Provide support to deliver HSBC’s Australian mid-market and global financial sponsor proposition.
- Work with CIB and Risk colleagues in constructing appropriate responses to complex lending-related consent requests and stress lending exposures.
- Position as a CIB conduit to capital financing specialists, particularly in relation to Leverage & Acquisition Finance and Debt Capital Markets teams.
- Serve as a centre of excellence to assist with technical skill development across the broader CIB business.
- Support transaction activity by driving conflict check requirements, information controls, and compliance.
- Take responsibility for portfolio credit monitoring of various mid-market financial sponsor-backed exposures.
Requirements
- Relevant experience in corporate banking, accounting, or finance.
- Demonstrated track record of writing comprehensive yet concise financial analyses.
- Demonstrated track record of construction of content-focused pitch books.
- Ability to review, understand, and summarise corporate financial statements for credit and lending viability assessments.
- Proficiency in building and adapting financial models for corporate and event lending scenarios.
- Awareness of company valuation, capital structuring, and external ratings methodologies.
- Exposure to structuring and negotiating legal documentation.
- Ability to manage to tight timelines.
- Superior attention to detail and a desire to deliver consistent high-quality output.
- Ability to consistently meet and exceed customer expectations through superior customer service.
- Strong preference for candidates with Australian PR/Citizenship, New Zealand Citizenship, or current unrestricted work rights in Australia.
Skills
- Corporate credit analysis
- Financial analysis
- Financial due diligence
- Financial modelling
- Company valuation
- Capital structuring
- External ratings methodologies
- Structuring legal documentation
- Negotiating legal documentation
- Customer service
Location
- Sydney, Australia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Analyst
- Associate
Education Level
- Degree in Finance, Business, or Accountancy-related disciplines
- Post graduate qualifications such as CA, CFA, or Masters of Applied Finance (highly regarded but not essential)
Benefits
- Tailored professional development opportunities
- Competitive pay
- Flexible working culture
- Market-leading subsidised private health cover
- Enhanced parental pay and support
- Subsidised banking products and services
- Bonus leave days
- Wellness programmes
- Discounted gym memberships
About the Company
- HSBC exists with the purpose of Opening up a World of Opportunity, using unique expertise, capabilities, breadth, and perspectives to provide opportunities for customers and colleagues through global connectivity.
- HSBC brings together people, ideas, and capital that nurture progress and growth, helping to create a better world.
- HSBC values different perspectives, collaboration across boundaries, and taking responsibility.
- HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are appreciated and respected, and where opinions count.
- HSBC provides a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow in an inclusive environment.
- Applications from First Nations peoples are encouraged.
Equal Opportunity
- We value different perspectives, we succeed together, collaborating across boundaries, we take responsibility, holding ourselves accountable to get things done. Through these values, HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are appreciated and respected and where opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow in an inclusive environment. Applications from First Nations peoples are encouraged.
