Investment Manager Leveraged Lending Europe (Associate Director/Director)

Job title:

Investment Manager Leveraged Lending Europe (Associate Director/Director)

Company:

Rabobank

Job description

As a Investment Manager you make a careful consideration between result and risk (a.o. credit/ESG/legal), with a focus on an acceptable and sustainable deal structure for both the client as well as Rabobank.OrganisatieLocatie UtrechtSalaris MarktconformGepubliceerd op 30-05-2024

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Our working environment is dynamic, interesting, and all about collaboration. As an Investment Manager Leveraged Lending you will enjoy to be intellectually challenged every day. It is a job that will accelerate your personal and professional development while being part of a fun and diverse team. Will you join us?You and your jobWorking in the fast paced world of Leveraged Lending; enabling financial sponsors (private equity) to invest in growth opportunities within the European Food and Energy transition as well as a broad range of sectors in the Netherlands where you will be able to make an impact across Rabobank’s strategic pillars together with clients. In the meantime you enjoy a steep learning curve, working in a stimulating environment, together with talented, fun and ambitious colleagues. Starting with generating ideas for our customers, you execute each subsequent phase of a transaction. Based upon a sound understanding of the company (usually clients or long term prospects), you optimize the structure for the transaction, identify cross-sell opportunities, include a sustainable linked loan where possible and negotiate the documentation. At all times you make a careful consideration between result and risk (a.o. credit/ESG/legal), with a focus on an acceptable and sustainable deal structure for both the client as well as Rabobank.Responsibilities

• You will pitch for new transactions, negotiate terms and conditions and compose well-founded credit applications. With increasing complexity of a transaction and depending on your experience, you will receive more coaching from colleagues, depending on your need;
• You are responsible for managing a number of client relationships, further building the relationship and share cross-sell opportunities/ideas as well constantly assessing and overseeing the risk involved with such clients;
• You will assess new/existing clients on their sustainability performance and engage with them potential sustainable solutions according to the Sustainability Linked Loans framework.
• You will execute (substantial parts of) transactions based on thorough analyses of (prospective) clients (including financial, commercial, sustainability, structure, legal and other risks);
• Managing stake holders is an important part of the job. As an Investment Manager you act in a political sensitive field between the interests of clients, commercial interest, market- and credit risk factors, ESG themes, legislation and regulatory frameworks. You are aware of all these factors but are able to bring them together;
• You are a strong team builder, align and steer the deal team and be a great coach for them. You will oversee and guide junior staff in new transactions, (annual) reviews, handling waiver requests and other issues related to the portfolio;
• You will create ideas that make a difference for our clients.

Together we achieve more than aloneWe believe in the power of diversity. Bringing together people’s differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team. The Leveraged Lending team brings talented people together to structure, execute and manage event driven financing in close cooperation with Sponsor Coverage and other departments including Loan Syndications and Risk Management. The Leveraged Lending team covers the European region. We are a diverse and internationally oriented team and embrace people from different nationalities and backgrounds. Rabobank Leveraged Lending is a leading arranger across the entire spectrum of the European leveraged finance market, following Rabobank’s Banking for the Netherlands, Banking for Food and Banking for Energy strategy. We often act as lead arranger on transactions, sustainability coordinator and occasionally participate in transactions led by other banks. With you, the Leveraged Lending team consists of c. 30 diverse colleagues in a variety of roles, including:

Nicoline Russel, Associate Director Leveraged Lending: “Working with high demanding, sophisticated private equity firms and analysing their targets being European corporates, whilst together managing various stakeholders – a deal process within Leveraged Lending which drives me lot. After onboarding a new client you get the opportunity to further build the commercial relationship with both sponsor and company which you do in close cooperation with other departments of the bank. Our culture enables you to strongly develop yourself and to quickly grow your responsibilities within our ambitious team, but at the same time also leaves room for more than enough fun.”Paul Koeweiden, Team Lead Investment Managers: “Supporting our clients in value-added transactions and consistently delivering in the short timelines of an M&A process is what drives me and the rest of team. Financing is a key element of any leveraged transaction and we are challenged by our sophisticated (private equity) client base to provide innovative solutions, crisp and thorough analyses and to leverage Rabobank’s excellent balance sheet quality. As such, you will learn a great deal of the leveraged finance world through impactful transactions and you will learn it quick. Most importantly, you will do this as part of a diverse and international team facilitating your learning curve, with ambitious colleagues in a fun working environment”.The Leveraged Lending team is bound together by their drive to complete complex transactions, manage various workstreams in a short timeframe for demanding customers. Working together is the way we work; as 1 client-centered team at Rabobank.Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.You and your talentCustomer focus, collaboration, a development mindset, judgement/analytical skills, and a drive for quality and result are clearly essential for the role of Investment Manager Leveraged Lending . In addition, it’s important that you recognize yourself in the checklist below:

• Master degree or equivalent;
• At least 4-6 years of relevant working experience;
• Interest and/or experience in (Leveraged) Lending and/or Private Equity;
• Commercial experience, preferably in a lending environment;
• Risk awareness;
• Strong ambition and can do mentality;
• Good at process and stakeholder management;
• Proficient interpersonal and communication skills;
• Fluent in written and spoken English. Fluent in additional language (French/Spanish/German/Dutch) is a pre.

This is what we offer you

• Market conform compensation (scale 10-11) depending on your experience
• Additionally: thirteenth month’s salary, 8% holiday allowance and an extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion and personal budget
• A personal development budget to use every calendar year
• The location of the role is Utrecht. As we are working in a hybrid way it is expected that you are in the office a minimum of 2 to 3 days per week

This is a selection of the terms of employment for an Associate Director/Director (scale 10/11) based on a 40-hour working week. This vacancy is for 40 hours per week. You can find all our terms of employment on .You and the job application processWe expect you to be enthusiastic about this exciting vacancy for an Investment Manager Leveraged Lending Europe. Go ahead and apply straight away (and certainly no later than June 10).We are very curious to learn more about you and why you want to join our team, so please send us both your motivation letter and CV.

• Any questions about the job content? Contact Paul Koeweiden, Team Lead Investment Managers Leveraged Lending Europe via
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Yvette van Herpen, Corporate Recruiter via
• We will hold the interviews through a video call and/or at our office.
• A security check is part of the process.

.We look forward to your application!

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Location

Utrecht

Job date

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 02:04:05 GMT

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