Senior Associate, Global Structured Finance

Employment; Doha; On-site; QAR 400,000 - 680,000; Full time

Job summary

S'hail Shipping and Maritime Services - Qatar, Doha is seeking a Transaction Officer to support initiation, preparation, processing and execution of Global Structured Finance transactions for private corporate and institutional clients, including government entities, to drive growth in corporate banking.

The role emphasizes collaboration with the VP Global Structured Finance and other senior bankers, contributing to credit analysis, market intelligence, client relationship building, and ensuring

Responsibilities

• A. Shareholder & Financial: Participate when required, in the formulation and implementation of strategies, business plans and budgets of the Unit in line with overall objectives of QNB Group.
• Support the VP Global Structured Finance and the SVP Corporate & Institutional Banking in the achievement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Meet the assigned target budget and achieve all volume, revenue, and profit targets for Global Structured Finance related transactions in accordance with QNB’s overall corporate banking budget and strategy.
• Support credit related decision-making process by ensuring availability of sound and quality information/ analysis necessary for accurate credit risk assessment and mitigation.
• Observes and promotes cost consciousness and efficiency, and enhance productivity, to minimize costs, avoid wastes, and optimize benefits for the bank.
• Manage all assigned transactions and products to maximize product potential and profitability.
• Act within the limits of the powers delegated to the incumbent.
• B. Customer (Internal & External): Assists with collection, analysis and storage of relevant business, financial and operational information on the Unit’s borrowers, transactions and bank counterparties and correspondents as required by KYC and other bank and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Conducts proactive gathering, analysis and reporting of market and business information through regularly interaction with key market participants to collect general market intelligence and obtain feedback on QNB's position and stature in the local, regional and international markets.
• Maintains and strengthens relationships with banks, financial institutions, and other market players who are active in the Global Structured Finance industry in order to ensure QNB is well positioned to identify future business opportunities.
• Continually keep abreast with the local, regional and international financial markets and economic environment.
• Maintains good team work, provide support, assistance and cooperation with other members of the Global Structured Finance Department.
• Builds and maintains strong and effective relationships with all other related units to achieve Group’s goals/objectives.
• Ensures prompt and efficient solution of operational and administrative problems and provide quick and satisfactory response on queries of customers and counterparties when required.
• Provide timely and accurate information to the external and internal Auditors, Compliance, Financial Control and Risk Functions as and when required.
• To assist customers in all their queries on Bank’s product and seek solution to their requests
• Maintain activities in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal departments/ units to achieve improvements in turn-around time.
• C. Internal (Processes, Products, Regulatory): Acts as a support to the main Transaction Officer for the structuring, credit processing, preparation, loan documentation, execution and distribution of assigned Global Structured Finance transactions.
• Assists with data collection for, and preparation of, comprehensive credit proposals, credit and marketing presentations for new / prospective customers; or periodic reviews and or monitoring of existing customers, in accordance with Credit Policy and procedures of the bank
• Performs verification of information on Global Structured Finance transactions to ensure correctness of data.
• Provides information and support to the team when reviewing the credit worthiness and financial feasibility of the individual project financing proposals
• Ensure QNB’s interests are adequately safeguarded before recommending approval of the credit.
• Will assist in the preparation of Credit Summary Report, credit proposals and other credit and business memos, in accordance with Credit Policy and procedures and adequately address all relevant risk factors and ensure that international credit standards, procedures, requirements and practices are adhered to.
• Coordinates with internal and or external legal counsel to ensure that all legal and security documents required by the transactions are complete, prepared in proper format, legally binding and enforceable.
• Liaises when required with the other parties comprising the project financing consortium;
• Ensures that copies of duly executed Facility Agreement and other legal and security documents, including conditions precedent, are provided to Credit Department and Agency Unit as per procedures of the bank.
• Provide information for collating and storing information on the Unit's transactions, activities, and performance in a timely, accurate and efficient manner as required by the existing procedures.
• Maintains and updates data base for Unit’s activities, customer contacts, existing and potential clients’ information, transactions and deal pipelines, banking opportunities and other relevant and critical information for the Unit.
• Will provide support for conducting required periodic reviews and updates for existing Global Structured Finance transactions’ performance, and other risk assessment techniques in line with Credit Risk Policies and requirements.
• Maintains and updates standard and user friendly business and financial reports using an internal data warehouse and all relevant public information sources as per Global Structured Finance Unit team requirement and inquiries.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with other Departments and functions within the Bank to ensure that any problems and or internal disputes are avoided, or resolved promptly and in an efficient and mutually satisfactory manner.
• Performs cross selling activities to enhance QNB’s overall relationship with customers by coordinating activities with other QNB units/ departments.
• Ensures that all QNB Group policies procedures and regulatory requirements are followed.
• Interprets and applies customer research and feedback into tangible product development initiatives by providing inputs to relevant units of the QNB Group.
• Ensures provision of timely and accurate information to Department Head to be given to the QNB's senior management team, external and internal auditors and the Group's compliance function as and when required or appropriate.
• Performs any other tasks assigned by the direct manager pertaining to Corporate and Institutional Banking Division or QNB’s Global Structured Finance activities.

Job description

S'hail Shipping and Maritime Services - Qatar, Doha is seeking a Transaction Officer to support initiation, preparation, processing and execution of Global Structured Finance transactions for private corporate and institutional clients, including government entities, to drive growth in corporate banking.

The role emphasizes collaboration with the VP Global Structured Finance and other senior bankers, contributing to credit analysis, market intelligence, client relationship building, and ensuring