Senior Transaction Manager - Aviation

IQ-EQ; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private health

Dental cover

Life assurance

Gym discount

Eye test

Corporate GP

25 days leave

Job summary

IQ-EQ is seeking a Senior Transaction Manager - Aviation to lead a portfolio of aviation financing structures, including aircraft lessors, SPVs and ABS. You will act as the primary transaction management contact from incorporation to wind-down.

You will coordinate with legal counsel, lenders, trustees, servicers, asset managers and accounting teams to ensure governance and client service standards across complex transactions.

Qualifications

• Strong relationship management experience.
• Experience coordinating with lenders, trustees and counsel.
• Solid understanding of compliance and governance standards.
• Proven ability to manage complex transaction documentation.
• Experience in aviation finance or transaction management is required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary relationship manager for aviation clients and portfolios.
• Oversee financing agreements, shareholder arrangements, and ABS transaction documents.
• Ensure all obligations and conditions precedents are completed accurately and on time.
• Coordinate post-closing actions and deliverables across multiple transactions.
• Drive success through stakeholder communications and timely management of complex documentation.

Skills

Relationship management

Stakeholder coordination

Compliance knowledge

Documentation management

Education

Degree in Law, Business, Finance, Economics

Job description

The Senior Transaction Manager - Aviation will be responsible for managing a portfolio of aviation clients, including aircraft lessors, aircraft-owning Special purpose vehicles (SPVs), aviation ABS structures, joint ventures, warehouse facilities, and other aviation finance platforms.

The role serves as the primary transaction management contact throughout the lifecycle of aviation structures, from incorporation and transaction closing through to ongoing governance, board support, compliance, restructuring and eventual wind-down where applicable.

The successful candidate will coordinate with legal counsel, lenders, trustees, servicers, asset managers, corporate administrators, and accounting teams to ensure best-in-class client service and governance standards across a portfolio of complex aviation transactions.

What You'll Do:

• You’ll serve as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of aviation and aircraft leasing clients, maintaining strong partnerships and ensuring client satisfaction.
• You’ll manage and oversee financing agreements, shareholder arrangements, and ABS transaction documentation throughout the transaction lifecycle.
• You’ll ensure all transaction obligations and conditions precedent are completed accurately and on time, maintaining compliance with all requirements.
• You’ll coordinate post-closing actions and deliverables, verifying that all transaction requirements are fulfilled to specification.
• You’ll drive transaction success by managing complex documentation, stakeholder communications, and timelines across multiple concurrent aviation transactions.

What we offer

• Comprehensive remuneration and pension: motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Wellbeing: additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave: our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave plus all Ireland public holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working: we recognise the value of working flexibly and want to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements.

About You:

• You hold a degree in Law, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• You bring 5+ years of experience in aviation finance, transaction management, or a similar role within the financial services industry.
• You demonstrate expertise in managing complex transaction documentation, financing agreements, and ABS structures throughout their lifecycle.
• You excel at coordinating with multiple stakeholders including legal counsel, lenders, trustees, and corporate administrators to deliver exceptional client service.
• You possess strong compliance knowledge and attention to detail, with the ability to manage transaction obligations and conditions precedent accurately and on time.

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our6,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 24 countries- to each achieve their potential.Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.

We’re a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide. We employ a global workforce of6,500+ people across 24 jurisdictionsand have assets …