Senior Associate: Sustainable Finance Solutions

To maximize sustainable finance revenue streams and manage risk through identifying, solutioning, assessing and implementing sustainable finance solutions / transactions for clients across sectors and across the African continent, by collaborating with various teams.

• Conduct opportunity identification, evaluation and assessment in line with agreed strategy and established methodologies and frameworks.
• Conduct research, perform detailed analysis, and apply systems value thinking and appropriate tools and principles.
• Prepare client proposals for client pitches and assist with drafting responses to Requests for Proposals (RFSs).
• Actively participate in deal teams when solutioning, assessing and implementing transactions by:
• Assessing sustainability strategies, generating ideas, and structuring and/or analysing key sustainability performance indicators and targets for sustainability linked transactions and eligibility criteria for “use of proceeds” transactions.
• Applying sustainable finance principles and approved structuring and assessment methodology and approach.
• Conducting due diligence and providing input into commercial terms as relates to the sustainable finance aspects of the transaction.
• Liaising with key stakeholders to ensure relevant sign offs are obtained.
• Interfacing with sustainability co-ordinator under debt syndication/auction processes and providing input into the transaction, including Q&A and ensuring relevant approvals are obtained within transaction timelines.
• Drafting and providing sustainable finance analysis / commentary into relevant papers for approval committees.
• Guiding and providing input into sustainability pricing for sustainable finance solution transactions.
• Preparing sustainability terms/provisions for term sheets and negotiating terms.
• Reviewing legal documentation and sustainability terms/provisions and term negotiation.
• Sustainability co-ordinate transactions and prepare sustainability information memoranda where Nedbank Sustainable Finance Solutions is mandated as sustainability co-ordinator under market processes.
• Develop and draft sustainable finance frameworks for clients where Nedbank, Sustainable Finance Solutions is mandated fulfilling conditions precedent.
• Performing assessment of performance against sustainability KPIs / “use of proceeds” when certificates are furnished by borrowers.
• 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 team’s business strategy, objectives and values by contributing to business plans and improving systems and processes.
• Get involved in ad hoc projects by providing research and input.
• Actively seek new solutions which could be embedded and/or positioned with clients.
• 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 evolving developments in the sustainable finance space.
• Stay abreast of developments in Nedbank CIB and in investment banking in general.
• Make a positive contribution towards a high-performance team culture.
• Be an ambassador of Nedbank and exhibit its purpose and values.

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree.

• Bachelor of Business Science.
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
• Honours or Masters degree in Engineering or Finance.
• Sustainable Finance Principles / Course.

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in corporate, commercial or investment banking and/or in the corporate sector in a treasury role, with a preference for experience related to sustainable finance transactions.

• Business Acumen.
• Business principles.
• Business writing.
• Data analysis.
• Governance, Risk and Controls.
• Principles of financial management.
• Relevant regulatory knowledge.
• Relevant software and systems knowledge.
• Research methodology.
• Relevant product knowledge.

• Applied Learning.
• Communication.
• Collaborating.
• Building partnerships.
• Managing Work.
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills.

Preference to be given to underrepresented groups.

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566