Senior Analyst Loans and Bonds

**SENIOR ANALYST LOAN AND BONS CAPITAL MARKETS / ACQUISITION FINANCE**:
**Business Area /Department Overview**:
BNP Paribas Global Banking division focuses on 3 main business areas: Corporate Clients Group, the gateway of BNP Paribas’ integrated offer, which manages all the interactions between the Bank and its corporate clients; Capital Markets, operates across debt and equity; and Transaction Banking, which deals with Cash management, Transactional FX, Deposits, Trade financing and Supply Chain Solutions.

Debt Markets EMEA’s mission is to serve the bank’s corporate and private equity clients, by originating (jointly with Coverage), structuring and executing all DCM and syndicated loan transactions (corporate facilities and event-driven transactions).

The debt product continuum is fostered by Debt Markets EMEA’s organisation, ensuring that a product neutral approach is delivered to BNP Paribas’ corporate and private equity clients, and reinforcing BNP Paribas’ position as a leading debt solution provider in Europe, whilst providing holistic capital structure advice with teams across Capital Markets.

Debt Markets EMEA has representatives in several countries including the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany and Spain among others and is structured around:

- Investment Grade Finance
- Leveraged Finance
- Transversal Teams

**Opportunity**:
You would be joining the Structuring and Execution Group team based in Madrid and report to the local coordinator. The Structuring & Execution Group is a central component of Debt Markets supporting senior originators across a wide range of debt products on a pan-European basis.

As an Analyst, you will be primarily providing support on the day-to-day execution of live deals, working on internal processes as well as supporting the outbound marketing activity of the senior originators. You will run financial models, complete financial and credit analysis and learn to structure Debt Markets transactions. Additionally, you will be associated for the production of materials for internal approval committees, syndication purposes and marketing efforts. This requires strong quantitative skills and the capacity to work on several transactions in parallel, which requires good organization skills and strong commitment.

**Key Responsibilities of the role**:
Marketing:

- Preparing pitch books for client meetings (often working together with coverage, Advisory, DCM, ECM, Loan Syndicate) including research work (company and industry analysis, data)xº
- Ensure high quality standards and reliability of all marketing materials;
- Maintain high degree of market awareness
- Build and maintain internal networks;
- Think commercially about a client’s business and identify new business opportunities;
Execution:

- Provide support in the day-to-day execution of live deals
- Building and analysing financial models (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet) including preparing figures for assessment of potential external rating impact(s). Prepare thoughtful cash flow projection models, driven by detailed assessment of business and economic conditions
- Writing credit committee papers and management of the credit process;
- Support the Deal Team Captain in the management of the compliance workflow of projects
- Engage with senior marketers on both commercial and technical aspects of transactions;
- Ensure high quality standards and reliability of all materials and process execution (Due Diligence, credit approval, including Analysts’ work);
- Assisting in the origination of acquisition financing, other event driven financing, and corporate refinancing for LCM clients
- Monitoring and managing risk for event driven transactions
- Developing an understanding of the key elements of loan structuring/documentation
- Adherence to the Bank’s corporate policies, compliance regulations and external regulation

**Regulation**:

- Ensure that all regulatory and commercial training is completed on time and refreshed as required;
- Responsible for adherence to the Bank’s corporate policies, to its internal Compliance regulations as well as to appropriate external Regulators;
**Experience, Qualifications & Competencies**:
**Technical aspects**:
**Qualifications**:

- A degree from a leading university with an excellent academic record; or equivalent work experience

**Experience**:

- Good working knowledge in the loans, bond or Leverage finance debt markets
- Previous experience within top tier investment bank and in similar areas

**Expertise**:

- Strong credit analysis and financial modelling skills
- Analytical mind-set and good awareness of credit and capital market risks
- Business risk: Understands the market, credit, operational, compliance, legal, regulatory and reputational risks of transactions undertaken by Debt Markets
- Carry-out the most complex analysis in almost full autonomy
- Express his/her messages in an effective, organized way, appropriate to the audience being addressed
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