Lending Documentation | Global Bank

NOVA8; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NOVA8 is actively seeking a Lending Documentation professional to support a leading global bank in New York on a permanent basis, hybrid working model.

The role involves reviewing bespoke and externally prepared documentation for complex and syndicated lending, ensuring alignment with credit approvals, policies, and risk requirements, and drafting bilateral facility, security, and parental support documentation with internal and external teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in bank-side credit/lending documentation or equivalent experience
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating bilateral facility, security and guarantee documentation
• Good working knowledge of conditions precedent, legal opinions and corporate authorities
• Strong understanding of lending documentation processes and credit documentation
• Experience working with Legal, business teams and external counsel
• Syndicated lending experience is a plus
• Demonstrable experience driving process improvements
• Commercial, pragmatic and confident working with senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Reviewing bespoke and externally prepared documentation for complex and syndicated lending transactions
• Checking documentation against credit approvals, bank policies and operational risk requirements
• Drafting and negotiating bilateral committed and uncommitted facility, security and parental support documentation
• Drafting and negotiating local and global guarantees
• Setting and collating conditions precedent and subsequent
• Coordinating with internal and external counsel on capacity and authority opinions
• Drafting corporate resolutions and reviewing constitutional documents
• Working closely with legal, client delivery and business teams to ensure documentation is completed and formally handed over
• Supporting the lending documentation team target operating model and driving process improvements

Skills

Lending documentation

Credit documentation

Drafting & negotiation

Stakeholder management

Job description

We are supporting a leading global bank on the appointment of a Lending Documentation professional for a permanent role, supporting the bank’s lending businesses across both standard and non-standard documentation.

This is a role within the bank’s lending function, acting as a business partner to the lending businesses and supporting a broad range of bilateral, syndicated and complex lending transactions.

• Reviewing bespoke and externally prepared documentation for complex and syndicated lending transactions
• Checking documentation against credit approvals, bank policies and operational risk requirements
• Drafting and negotiating bilateral committed and uncommitted facility, security and parental support documentation
• Drafting and negotiating local and global guarantees
• Setting and collating conditions precedent and subsequent
• Coordinating with internal and external counsel on capacity and authority opinions
• Drafting corporate resolutions and reviewing constitutional documents
• Working closely with legal, client delivery and business teams to ensure documentation is completed and formally handed over
• Supporting the lending documentation team target operating model and driving process improvements
• 5+ years’ experience in bank-side credit/lending documentation or equivalent experience
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating bilateral facility, security and guarantee documentation
• Good working knowledge of conditions precedent, legal opinions and corporate authorities
• Strong understanding of lending documentation processes and credit documentation
• Experience working with Legal, business teams and external counsel
• Syndicated lending experience is a plus
• Demonstrable experience driving process improvements
• Commercial, pragmatic and confident working with senior stakeholders

New York, Permanent, Full-time, Hybrid Working Model.