Associate Director Icestar recruitment

Your work:
You will be (jointly) responsible to further expand the Icestar product and are part of the day-to-day activities within Icestar (ownership based lending).
These activities are a/o
- Client pitches (generate sufficient deal-flow),
- Client visits (worldwide; following ECT clients)
- Processing deals (a/o legal set-up),
- Cooperating with the commodity brokers of ABN AMRO,
- Writing proposals (and managing the credit approval process), 
- Structuring deals and assess relating risks,
- Assist in further developing Icestar (a/o back office system, policy papers, streamlining processes, yearly review, execution of business plan),
- Analyzing market reports,
- Internal presentations to account managers of ECT.

Your work environment:
Background information on ECT - Commodities
ECT- Commodities finances the physical flow of commodities, from the pre-production stage through to storage, primary processing and distribution. Our customers are producers, international traders, suppliers, primary processors, transporters and buyers active in the agriculture, metal and energy sectors. ABN AMRO is one of the leading banks within commodity trade finance. It has offices in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Dubai and Sao Paulo.

Services Clients
- Agri commodities: providing financial services to companies active in the production, primary processing, trade, storage and distribution of agricultural commodities like grains, oilseeds, fertilizer, vegetable oils, bio-fuels, cotton, sugar ethanol, coffee and cocoa. These activities are at the origin of the merchant banking activities of ABN AMRO since 1720. Our aim is to facilitate our clients to originate transport, trade, process and distribute agricultural raw materials.
- Energy Commodities: On a worldwide basis, clients are being served in the value chain from production to consumption through refining, trading, transporting, storing and arbitraging energy products, including crude oil, refined products, gas and petrochemicals.  
- Metals Commodities: In this sector, there is a focus on companies active in the trading and distribution of: Base Materials, Steel, raw Materials, Scrap, Ferro-Alloys and Minor Metals. We aim to finance the entire trading cycle; from the procurement of raw metals in emerging markets, the production of semi-finished goods to the subsequent sale of the semi-finished products.

ECT Commodities Icestar
ECT Commodities Icestar is part of Agri Commodities and resides in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam desk includes both Account Managers for Agri Commodities and dedicated Icestar specialists. It offers commodity clients so-called “Icestar” facilities to a broad range of clients. Basically, this involves the bank taking ownership of the physical goods, whilst simultaneously setting up an “exit route”, i.e. an opportunity to dispose of ownership (exchange or client).

Management of ECT commodities has identified Icestar as one of the growth areas and has allocated resources to further expand (product-scope and worldwide coverage). Together with the back-office (CCM), legal and ABN AMRO Brokerage, the front office team is working on the day-to-day operations for Icestar.

Your background:
We are looking for a colleague with the following skills and qualifications:
- Over 5 year banking experience, preferably in Commodities
-  Strong analytical skills and eye for detail, ability to quickly understand and structure complex transactions,
-  Strong commercial skills: high power of conviction and strong negotiator and seen as an excellent business partner,
-  Legal framework, Financial analysis, Commodity financing structures, Commodity market dynamics and ownership based financing knowledge is a strong pre,
-  Understanding of Brokerage/Clearing of commodities,
-  Experience with systems used within ECT (such as WMT, FAIR, FCA),
-  Creative and solution driven,
-  Risk conscious,
-  Flexible, enthusiastic and pro-active working attitude,
-  Strong communicative skills and good oral and written skills in English

Our offer:
ABN AMRO is committed to personal development. That means a lot of responsibility and scope for entrepreneurship. The essence is that you grow into the professional that you want to be.
You work with a group of people with vision, strong entrepreneurial attitude, client/solution driven, cross business-line mentality (stakeholders we deal with are a/o ECT, Large Corporates, Markets, ABN AMRO Clearing Bank, Risk, Credits, Subsidiary Accounting and TAX) and most of all result focussed. 
Obviously part of the job consists of market standard salary and excellent benefits

For more information:
Gijs Stroink (head of Icestar)
Email: gijs.stroink@nl.abnamro.com
Tel: +31 (0)20- 343 3641

Interested? Please apply online!