Portfolio Monitoring Senior Analyst

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The Portfolio Monitoring unit is integrated in the Investment Banking & Finance (IB&F) unit, who is part of the Corporate and Investment Banking (C&IB) division of the BBVA Group, and manages the portfolio of bilateral and syndicated transactions originated in the IB&F unit, being mainly project finance, real estate, leveraged lending, corporate loan and Structured Trade Finance transactions, with assets in Iberia, rest of EMEA, LatAm and USA.

We get involved from the early stages of structuring, and once signed, we manage all and any events relative to the transaction (amendments, waivers, etc.) until its complete repayment on a standalone basis. We are acting also as Agents for syndicated transactions

We are also in charge of the PD and LGD reviews for Project Finance deal, and of recommending the transfer of a transaction to the restructurings team, thus having a proactive monitoring approach.

We manage a number of agency roles in syndicated transactions, and therefore we keep a direct and close contact with the clients.

About the job:

We are looking for proactive and dynamic professional, with high analytic skills and attention to detail.

The candidate will be responsible for the management and monitoring of a loan portfolio comprised of project finance and/or real estate and/or leveraged lending and/or corporate loan and/or STF transactions.

Main tasks include:

Support to the Origination & Structuring teams in the pre-closing stage of each deal.

Maintain transfer & regular meetings with the teams of Syndicated Loan, Origination, BIBEC, CIB Workout, Recovery.

Autonomous management of lenders’ requests (e.g. amendments and waivers) with Clients, Banks, Risk, Internal and/or external Legal Counselors and BBVA units (BEC, BIBEC, Global Client Coverage, Financial Sponsors, Recovery, CIB Workout, etc) and update of the internal tools that may be required.

Managing the relationship with the insurance companies (public and/or private) in the Structured Trade Finance deals.

Covenants, guarantees and events monitoring using the appropriate internal tools (CLAN Monitoring, CLAN Processing, CLAN Guarantee, Account Monitoring, Document Management System) and update of such tools.

Management of ingoing and outgoing documentation regarding loans when BBVA is agent bank (email and Debtdomain).

Management of the loan portfolio from a fund manager point of view, providing a sectorial approach in order to anticipate business opportunities and credit or insolvency risk.

Rating management for the Project Finance deals under its responsibility, which will involve working with risk rating tools and presenting the rating proposals against the risk team in a joint monthly committee.

Support in the optimization of APR’s and in the decrease of capital consumption.

Support in the technological platform development and improvement.

Based in the continuous work and knowledge of the portfolio, propose proactive measures to anticipate potential deterioration of any deal/sectors, and provide support to the relevant teams in respect of any decisions to be taken in this respect.

Keep the portfolio updated in the tool infrastructure of the area.

Requirements

University Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or Lawyer.

Master in Business Administration or Economics is desirable.

At least 3 years of previous experience with any of these products: Project Finance, Structured Trade Finance, Asset Finance/Real Estate, Leveraged Lending and/or Corporate Loans management (either origination or portfolio monitoring).

Geographical mobility.

English C1 Advanced, C2 Proficiency will be highly desirable. Italian would be also desirable.

Spanish (mother language or minimum B2).

Skills:

Business, Covenants, Funding, Refinancings