Leveraged Finance Executive Director

BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121,000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers and designers.

Leveraged Finance Large Corps team in EMEA sits within the Investment Banking & Finance group, part of BBVA’s Corporate & Investment Banking division, and it is organized across several locations including, among others, London and Madrid.

About the job:

As a senior team member, your main roles and responsibilities are, among others, the following ones:

• Develop in depth relationships with the portfolio of clients, providing the best advice on accessing capital markets winning origination mandates.

• Maintain and enhance market intelligence working with external counterparties and Syndicate & Sales teams to gather investor appetite.

• Work on underwriting and distribution strategies including management of different stakeholders in coverage, syndicate, sales and risk to obtain the relevant approvals.

• Lead the origination activities for HY Bonds, Term Loan Bs and other syndicated bank facilities (among others, TLAs, RCFs, Guarantee Lines...). This includes running financial models, completing financial and credit analysis, review and structure documentation and drive materials not only for internal approval committees but also for syndication purposes and marketing efforts.

• Manage the day-to-day execution of live deals (across both High Yield Bond and Loan markets).

• Provide support, guidance and learning opportunities to more junior team members.

All the above requires strong quantitative skills and the capacity to work on several transactions in parallel, which requires good organization skills and strong commitment.

Skills:

Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Credit Analysis, Distribution Strategies, Financial Leverage, Investment Banking, Loan, Structuring, Syndications, Term Loans