Structuring & Originations Specialists
Job title: Structuring Origination Specialist
Job Category: Finance, Credit, Market Trading Risk
Location: Canary Wharf, London
About US: Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale.
The Trading division is our face to the traded markets in oil, gas, power, chemicals and finance. Trading's role is to enhance Group value through distinctive supply, commodity trading, risk management and information technology skills underpinned by a world class finance, control and compliance infrastructure.
We foster a diverse and inclusive workplace for all employees. We are proud of our stance on fairness, equal opportunity and meritocracy, which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential.
Role synopsis: This role sits within a newly formed Credit Portfolio Management team within our trading business and will help facilitate business growth by partnering with regional credit and origination teams to identify and structure potential transaction opportunities.
In addition to capitalizing on your creativity and structuring skills, you will develop and leverage an in-depth understanding of our credit portfolio to inform your consultations and actions – always with a goal of supporting a strong, sustainable trading enterprise.
This role sits within a small global team providing support across a multi-commodity supply and trading organization operating worldwide.
Key accountabilities:
- Help frame and progress credit risk appetite conversations within Trading Group by coupling risk/reward analysis with an understanding of both fundamental credit drivers and credit portfolio dynamics fit;
- Develop and/or validate credit exposure and pricing treatment of larger transactions, including those subject to executive level review;
- Provide structuring leadership and/or support on strategic and complex transaction opportunities;
- Leverage integrated understanding of commercial growth strategies, fundamental credit outlooks, current credit portfolio and available structuring and risk mitigation tools to help develop credit strategies and potential transaction opportunities consistent therewith
- Seamless and cooperative partnership across the business, including local Credit and MO teams
Essential education:
- Degree qualified
Essential experience and job requirements:
- Experience in developing and implementing complex financing and transaction structures, within a commercial / investment bank, an energy trading enterprise or both.
- Deep understanding of fundamental credit drivers – particularly for stressed and distressed counterparties, including an understanding of collateral protections and bankruptcy law dynamics.
- Adept at building and maintaining strong, cooperative working relationships across various levels organizational levels – both internally and with key external partners and counterparties.
- Comfortable adapting role and input to needs of situation – structuring lead, structuring support, limited advisory role, etc.
- Self-directed high performer with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset.
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
Desirable criteria qualifications:
- Familiarity with credit portfolio management theory and practice and/or secondary credit markets (loans, bonds, CDS) is a plus.
- Capital markets experience, particularly with stressed or distressed companies, in any of the following sectors or geographies a potential plus – Refiners, EP, Merchant Power, LNG, Asia, Africa, Latin America.
- Letter of credit experience, with emerging markets or L/C financings, is a plus.
- Foreign language proficiency a potential plus.
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