CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES AND DELIVERABLES
- Deliver a strong multi‑country pipeline of syndicated loans, leverage finance, structured credit, and bond transactions across sovereign, FIG and corporate segments.
- Lead end‑to‑end execution of complex financing transactions, including origination, structuring, documentation, syndication, distribution, and settlement.
- Produce transaction term sheets, pricing frameworks, financial models, IMs, investor presentations, and distribution strategies.
- Ensure flawless execution of CP/CS processes, agency setup, security perfection, legal due diligence, and documentation adherence to LMA/LSTA standards.
- Build and maintain deep institutional investor networks (DFIs, ECAs, banks, asset managers, private credit).
- Provide comprehensive market intelligence, sector insights, and risk recommendations to senior leadership.
- Drive RAROC aligned structuring, capital optimization, and balance sheet allocation for large transactions.
- Maintain governance compliance, ensuring all mandates align with Group policies, risk appetite, regulatory requirements, and treasury strategy (ARRP – Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan).
- Build capability within the structuring, origination, and distribution teams while ensuring a high‑performance culture.
- Deliver quarterly execution reviews, revenue reports, pipeline updates, and distribution performance dashboards.
Qualifications
Behavioral Framework:
- Strong understanding of Treasury policies, controls, ethics, and regulatory expectations.
- Clear, persuasive communicator with excellent presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills.
- Highly effective working across diverse teams, multiple countries, and varied regulatory environments.
- Provides clear direction, exercises sound judgement, and makes timely, well‑informed decisions.
- Ethical leader who inspires, mentors, and builds a high‑performance, client‑centric culture.
- Consistently focused on delivering value to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Action‑oriented, resilient under pressure, and dependable in high‑stakes environments.
Technical Competencies:
- Advanced structuring expertise across senior, mezzanine, unitranche, bridge‑to‑bond, credit‑enhanced, and complex financing solutions.
- Strong command of LMA/LSTA documentation, intercreditor agreements, security structures, sovereign considerations, and pari passu frameworks.
- Deep understanding of rating‑agency methodologies and investor disclosure standards (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch).
- Strong ESG financing capability across green, social, sustainability, and KPI‑linked structures.
- Proven end‑to‑end leadership across origination, structuring, syndication, and distribution.
- Deep expertise in credit, market, liquidity, legal, and operational risk drivers.
- Extensive networks across African and emerging‑market investors (DFIs, ECAs, banks, private credit, asset managers).
- Strong capability in covenants, security waterfalls, investor requirements, and distribution strategies.
- Mastery of financial markets, pricing, modelling, valuation, and macro‑economic fundamentals.
- Strong leadership, people development, regulatory navigation, entrepreneurial mindset, and disciplined execution under pressure.
Experience requirements
- Minimum of 12–18 years of experience in capital markets, syndication lending, or leveraged finance, including at least 7 years in senior leadership, with a strong, demonstrable pan‑African execution track record.
Academic qualifications and certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Economics, Business, or Engineering.
- Master’s degree in Law is an added advantage.
- MBA preferred for strategic and managerial depth.
- Professional certifications such as CFA or ACCA are an added advantage
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