Vice President / Senior Vice President, Structured Trade, Global Transaction Banking, Asia Pacific
Banco Santander · Hong Kong
Vice President / Senior Vice President, Structured Trade, Global Transaction Banking, Asia PacificCountry: Hong KongJoin our Structured Trade team and help deliver innovative working capital solutions to leading global corporates across commodities, industrials, and the AI and data centre value chain.
The role offers exposure to some of the most complex and high-profile transactions in trade finance, including inventory finance, borrowing bases, prepayments and bespoke structured solutions supporting strategic supply chain flows into Asia.
Working closely with Coverage, Corporate Sales and global product teams, you will originate, structure and execute transactions across Asia Pacific and beyond, while contributing to product innovation and business growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Achieve quantitative and qualitative performance objectives of the regional team, in terms of origination, execution and maintenance of clients’ activities with the bank.
- Responsible in the whole life cycle of the deal, from the preparation of the marketing material and pitch book to the client to the deal execution including preparation of credit application, profitability measurement and negotiation in legal documentation process.
- Follow pipelines and lead in commercial activity, including the analysis of the client working capital needs and their evolution.
- Work with Banking & Corporate Finance team, Global Structure Trade team, Middle Office and Back Office team to ensure the smooth deal execution and coordinate with other geographies.
- Participate in the product framework development and the necessary infrastructure support.
- Support Global Transaction Banking (GTB) Department head initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree holder or above.
- Minimum 8 years of work experience with an international bank (with at least 4 years in Structured Trade or Structured Commodity Finance) and/or a major law firm (within Banking & Finance).
- Familiarity and working experience with fundamental banking and finance law, regulatory and compliance concepts and the ways they impact structuring and documentation of financing transactions.
- Agile mindset and ability to innovatively apply prior legal knowledge towards overcoming challenges and helping remove bottlenecks in the legal documentation process.
- Experience originating and structuring complex financing solutions, including asset-backed finance, structured finance and/or data centre financing, either at a financial institution or buy-side investo.
- Team player, self-starter with good initiative and high motivation. Willing to work under pressure and with a sense of commercial urgency.
- Fluent spoken and written English and Mandarin Chinese. Spanish or Portuguese a plus.
- Advanced level in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint applications.
- Detail oriented, excellent analytical and presentation skill.
- In accordance with HKMA guidelines, successful candidates are required to undergo Mandatory Reference Check (“MRC”) scheme in order to be considered for employment. For details, please find the announcement of MRC Scheme in HKMA Website & FAQ in HKAB Website.