Key Responsibilities Of The Role

The role reports to the Head / Deputy Head of Marketing Department and is primarily involved in marketing to new clients and syndicate banks, and maintenance of existing client/syndicate relationships, credit origination of drafting and submitting credit proposals, and post-lending management, to monitor approved credit facilities and identify potential risks through the life-cycle of credit deals through:

• Present a motivated and proactive approach to drive new to bank business opportunities across the syndicate and corporate market
• Active customer/syndicate bank interaction and relationship maintenance
• Focus on credit quality, loan book growth and profitability
• Research on and evaluate potential transaction opportunities
• Prepare and submit credit proposals for credit origination
• Lead customer due diligence activities (including AML/TFS)
• Structure and execute project and corporate finance transactions
• Manage the approval processes for transactions to be funded
• Support and deliver business development and origination activities
• Manage key relationships including external financial services providers, contractors and external professionals
• Conduct ongoing customer due diligence, credit risk analysis and monitoring throughout the life-cycle of credit deals, including identifying potential defaults, investigating causes of concern, and recommending appropriate remedial action and/or problem loan workout plan to the Department Head
• Responsible for document filing and archiving
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Knowledge, Skills And Experience (Selection Criteria)

The successful candidate will demonstrate and provide examples from their professional experience of the following essential skills:

• Essential
• Bachelor's degree or above
• c. 5 years experience of syndicate lending and bi-lateral lending origination, documentation and relationship management
• Extensive networking with syndicate lead banks and major corporates in the local market and strong motivation to develop business relationship
• Strong research and analytical skills in identifying, analyzing and managing credit risk
• Strong sense of integrity, responsibility, reliability, compliance, discipline, and punctuation, good problem-solving skills.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the DFSA rules and regulations, and the UAE market practice.
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal communication skills in English, as well as strong negotiation skills
• Desirable
• English is the working language in office, mandarin ability would be a plus