Senior Director Head Of Leveraged And Acquisition Finance- Investment Banking

Job Purpose
- To lead a team of senior transactors involved in structuring and execution of financing multi-bank deals across Mashreq’s multiple core markets.
- The holder of the job is responsible for maintaining Mashreq’s underwriting standards in the syndicated loan markets and oversee a successful conclusion of Mashreq lead transactions.
- Manage and deliver on internal (approving authorities) and external stakeholder’s expectations on highly complex transactions especially in the leveraged finance space.
- Continuously enhance knowledge base and seek to establish new capabilities and suggest alternative funding structures to stay ahead of competition.
Key Result Areas
Structuring
- Closely working with internal (origination team and relationship & risk management) and external (bank customers/counter-party banks & legal counsels) to structure deals meeting the requirement of all the parties.
- Responsible for extensive financial, operational, and legal due diligence relying on both internal & external resources.
- Managing the team responsible for the preparation of detailed financial models/business plan(s).
- Putting together structures (viz term sheets) that make a transaction bankable, which are executable within the reasonable timelines as well as meet client requirements.
Execution
- Closely working with external (client, participating banks & external legal counsels) and internal (documentation, legal, relationship & risk teams) for successful execution of facility agreement within the overall parameters & timelines
Other Areas
- Co-origination efforts for select highly structured complex deals.
- Supporting the origination team on deal origination efforts.
- Oversee the team handling & managing post-closing matters, on a need basis, such as covenant compliance, condition subsequent, special client requirements or one-off amendment processes

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- A robust multi product Investment Banking skill set that covers the entire capital structure with a predominant focus on raising capital in the debt market.

- Strong quantitative skills with in-depth knowledge of financial modeling/valuation methodologies.

- Highly developed presentation skills.

- Working knowledge of essential legal matters in documentation.

- A proactive and energetic personality with the ability and desire to multitask across origination, structuring, development and execution areas.
- The candidate will have a minimum of 14 years’ of experience spent with one or better known regional or global institution involved in similar nature of business.