Associate Director - Investments - Wholesale Banking

The Associate Director will be a senior position and primary responsibilities will be towards credit assessment as well as sourcing & execution of deals for the AIF funds.

This would include :

- Lead the credit research function, with primary responsibility for deliverables by the research team

- Rigorously tracking and analysing financial and operational performance of investee companies on an on-going basis. Preparing and maintaining credit notes, sector notes / presentations etc.

- Identifying potential clients especially in corporate finance segment and developing underwriting credit risk guidelines / conducting due diligences

- Preparing post due diligence notes; credit analysis of potential clients

- Negotiating and executing plain vanilla and structured finance transactions; coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders involved in deals

- Interfacing with internal capital market sales teams and external agencies (arrangers/investors) to source and negotiate portfolio investments

Minimum Qualifications : MBA or Post Graduate in Management from a premier institute/Chartered Accountant/CFA

Minimum Experience :

- Minimum 6 to 8 years relevant experience in banking/financial services industry, preferably in wholesale banking / financial services.

Skills Required :

- Strong understanding of corporate/credit analysis

- Understanding portfolio management and trade workflow

- High proficiency in MS Office tools (especially MS Excel)

- Knowledge of legal framework, RBI/NHB/SEBI regulations, Companies Act, and other applicable laws/regulations required for transactions

- Exhibit leadership qualities and mentor/guide reporting team to achieve high quality deliverables

- Strong negotiation skills and problem solving attitude

- Strong interpersonal and effective communication skills (both written and verbal).

- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, self-motivated and process oriented individual.