Rating and Capital Advisory - Vice President

Description du poste

Ratings and Capital Advisory (RCA) is included within the Acquisition Finance & Advisory (AFA) business, a unit of the Corporate and Leverage Finance (CLF) business line.

RCA is meant to offer corporates and infrastructures advisory services combining Ratings Advisory and Capital Structure Advisory.

Key Responsibilities:

The main missions of the RCA Vice President are to advise large and mid-corporate clients of the bank in the context of strategic financial operations such as acquisition and disposals, spin-offs, IPO / rights issue, refinancing, recaps, liability management etc., and on a regular basis (outside of transforming events), with a view to optimizing their Capital Structure and external Ratings if any.

The RCA VP position will focus on developing new and existing relationships among key Italian clients of CACIB / CA group large and mid-corporate with a view of:

• originating rating and capital structure advisory mandates
• support top tier positioning of financing businesses (loans, bonds…)
• cooperating with Global Investment Banking (GIB) division to secure strategic M&A, ECM and other advisory mandates
• support the uptiering of strategic dialogue of Client Coverage and CACIB Management

This will include in practice:

• Analyse and advise companies on their business model, capital structure, financial policy.
• Position and benchmark the companies with their peer group in their industry / close industries.
• Elaborate financial model and measure the impact of alterations of the business perimeter, capital structure, funding, etc.
• Determine the optimal capital structure given rating constraints / targets and propose actions on how to meet the companies’ objectives in terms of cost of capital / financial policy.
• Assess and recommend the debt structure depending on available instruments and liquidity pockets: debt (loans, bonds, securitization, hybrids), equity and equity linked.
• Pitch, execute and co-lead capital structure / rating advisory missions and mandates.
• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, maintain appropriate knowledge, complete all mandatory training.

The RCA VP will notably interact with the Coverage, CLF, as well as with Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets, GIB, and more generally business lines requiring strategic dialogue with their clients.

Management et Reporting:

Reporting to the Local Head of CLF and Global Head of RCA.