Vice President, Corporate Banking- Project & Energy Transition Finance
Bank of the West
- New York City, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understanding the construction, operational, and financing inputs to the project financial model including investing significant time in preparing and explaining credit scenarios and sensitivities, key metrics, and summary outputs
- End-to-end transaction execution leadership, including but not limited to the following:
- Credit analysis
- Risk and return analysis
- Due diligence (contract reviews, legal memoranda, etc.)
- Third-party consultant reports (independent engineer, market, insurance, environmental consultants, etc.)
- Credit documentation (review, comment and negotiate financing agreements, term sheets, etc.)
- Financial closing coordination
- AML/KYC and client onboarding activities and coordination
- Virtual data room management
- Preparing credit documentation (i.e., applications, memoranda, presentations, etc.) for internal (investment and risk committees) and external stakeholders (clients, investors, lenders, developers)
- Summarize diligence materials to develop and produce coherent recommendations and identify key risks and mitigants
- Run internal return models
- Identify cross-sell opportunities and effectively engagement and liaise with internal product partners
- Coordinate with credit and operations teams from origination through close and funding
- Coordinate transaction executive with clients, third party consultants and other lenders
- Considers risk, internal controls and compliance as part of day-to-day accountabilities and adheres to policies and procedures, including the identification of exceptions/escalations
- Undergraduate degree in business, finance/accounting, economics with outstanding academic achievement
- Strong financial modelling skills are critical and will be tested during the interview process
- Minimum of 5 years of project finance lending and origination experience, with proven experience negotiating and closing project finance transactions
- North American sector, market and asset class knowledge across power, utilities, infrastructure, energy and energy transition will be an asset
- Effective organizational and time-management skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Outstanding communication (written, oral, listening) and interpersonal skills with ability to present complex information succinctly to internal and external audiences
- Self-starter with ability to learn quickly and work independently while also being able to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to manage and delegation both downward and upward effectively and proactively anticipate team needs
- High level of self-awareness and humility, with excitement about confronting uncomfortable situations or new challenges
- Creative problem-solver with intellectual agility and curiosity
- Highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Word