Job Description

Job PurposeTo maximize sustainable revenue streams and manage risk through implementing and monitoring long-term debt financing transactions for clients in the mining, metals, chemicals and mining services sectors across the African continent.Job Responsibilities

• Provide support to deal teams when originating transactions through extensive research, opportunity evaluation and proposal preparation.
• Actively participate in deal teams when implementing and monitoring transactions by:
• On-boarding clients; assessing due diligence outcomes;
• Interrogating financial models and financial statements;
• Running rating and pricing calculations and approvals;
• Preparing term sheets;
• Completing credit applications;
• Reviewing finance documents;
• Fulfilling conditions precedent;
• Performing ongoing risk management, including:

• Continuously assessing client performance and completing annual SEMS and credit reviews;
• Complying with internal risk policies, procedures and mandates; and
• Ensuring regulatory compliance (sanctions and adverse media screening and adherence to FICA or KYC regulations, policies, and procedures).
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders by building trust, promoting collaboration, communicating regularly, executing efficiently and complying with governance and controls.
• Support the achievement of the teams business strategy, objectives and values by contributing to business plans and improving systems and processes.
• Get involved in ad hoc projects by providing research, advice, training, testing and implementation.
• Actively seek cross-sell opportunities for the products of other Nedbank divisions.
• Manage personal development by acting on feedback from managers and deal team members, actively accepting on-the-job training and pursuing relevant training courses.
• Stay abreast of developments in the mining, chemicals, metals, and mining services sectors.
• Stay abreast of developments in Nedbank CIB and in investment banking in general

People SpecificationAssociate: Mining and Resources

• Make a positive contribution towards a high-performance team culture.
• Be an ambassador of Nedbank and exhibit its purpose and values

Essential Qualifications

• Professional Qualifications/Honours Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Chartered Accountant
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Honours or Masters degree in Engineering or Finance

Essential Certifications

• CA(SA), CFA

Minimum Experience Level

• Minimum of 18 months of relevant experience in corporate, commercial or investment banking and/or in the mining, chemicals, metals or mining services sectors, with a preference for experience related to long-term debt transactions.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Business principles
• Business terms and definitions
• Business writing
• Data analysis
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Industry trends
• Microsoft Office
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Oral and written communication techniques

Behavioural Competencies

• Communication
• Continuous Learning
• Collaborating
• Stress Tolerance
• Quality Orientation
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

Employment Equity StatementPreference to be given to underrepresented groupsPlease contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566

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