Vice President, Portfolio Management - Leveraged, Acquisition & TMT Finance Americas

Crédit Agricole CIB; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group is seeking a Portfolio Manager to join their New York-based Leveraged Finance team. The candidate will lead credit monitoring efforts and team management while contributing to regulatory reporting. This role offers opportunities for growth from VP to Director level and is ideal for professionals with strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Child care support

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

Disability insurance

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience in leveraged finance or credit risk/monitoring.
• Degree in economics/finance with relevant coursework.
• Experience in cash flow modeling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage ongoing credit monitoring of leveraged finance and TMT loan portfolio.
• Contribute to internal and regulatory reporting and audits.
• Manage and mentor the PFM team under the new setup.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Fluency in a second language

Education

BA/BS degree with economics/finance major coursework

Master's degree – Msc Finance or MBA

Job description

This range is provided by Crédit Agricole CIB. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$180,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

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Team and position

Credit Agricole is among world top 10 banking groups. Our NY based Leveraged Finance team is directly responsible for origination and execution of LBOs with leading Private Equity Funds in North America, as well as financings for leveraged (non-investment grade) corporates, across loans and HY bonds.

In addition, the team is also in charge of event driven financings (M&A and IPO related) for Investment Grade clients, and of leveraged / structured financing transactions in the TMT sector, including the current wave of infrastructure flavoured deals (towercos, data centers, fibercos) with Infrastructure Funds, across North America and Latam. It is referred to internally as the “LATFG” team (Leveraged, Acquisition & TMT Finance).

Building on its recent successes, the team is expanding to support its strong growth ambitions. In order to address the increasing volumes of credit and reporting management work generated by our expanding loan portfolio, we are setting up a portfolio management (PFM) team.

We are opening a Portfolio Manager position. The role will consist in setting up and spearheading the portfolio management effort for the team, initially with some junior support. There is an opportunity for the successful candidate to grow in the role as the team expands in coming years. The role is initially positioned at VP level, a successful implementation would offer an opportunity for a rapid evolution towards Director level.

Key Responsibilities

1) Credit monitoring of our loan portfolio:

• Manage the ongoing credit monitoring work for part of the leveraged finance and TMT loan

portfolio (current volume of about 60 deals): monitoring of the schedule of annual reviews, write up of annual reviews, credit papers in relation to waivers and amendments, quarterly write ups for

loans under watch. In close coordination with respective deal/client teams.

• Proactively flag to LATFG manager and respective LATFG client team any early warning signals

of credit deterioration, concerns, or ideas for commercial opportunities

• Ensure timely propagation of internal rating decisions within the internal IT systems.
• Represent the team in the various credit committees (NY credit committee, CLF credit committee, CRC) and monitoring committees (Quarterly committees for underperforming loans or loans under watch “SARs” and “SACs”), underperforming or under watch loans
• For a specific part our portfolio (namely the Corporate Acquisition Finance deals), annual reviews are directly prepared by RPC (Credit Risk) and Credit Coordination teams. Nonetheless, you will be asked to follow up these processes, to participate in related credit committees and to report any important credit or marketing related matters to LATFG manager and respective LATFG client team.
• Coordinate with CLF Losa team to monitor evolution of the portfolio (increases or reductions via amortization, prepayments, secondary trades etc)
• Coordinate with CLF Losa and respective deal/client teams to ensure authorizations recorded in internal systems are accurate and up to date.
• Maintain close coordination on all of the above tasks with respective LATFG client teams. Interact with clients whenever necessary to clarify credit related questions, in coordination with the LATFG client team quarterly or annual information provided by client, connect to lender or investor calls organized by clients and relay summaries of meaningful information to LATFG team manager and respective LATFG client team.
• Depending on deal flow, there will also be occasional opportunities to get involved in a live new deal as part of the origination deal team.

2) Contribute to internal and regulatory reporting:

• Collect data and manage the regular requests for reporting from our internal stakeholders (HO

business line, COO teams, RPC): monthly anomaly reports, monthly LevFin excel pipeline, quarterly portfolio review files, “deals world” database for LBOs, etc

• Contribute to recurring, ad hoc, and annual audits (NY annual and quarterly CUSO Loan Review, ad hoc NY portfolio reviews, Internal Audit “Inspection Generale”, add hoc CUSO reviews)
• Assist team manager and respective deal teams in ensuring that the CLF pipeline tool (“Diamond”) is up to date.
• Contribute to occasional ad hoc information requests when and as required
• Assist LATFG manager with periodic estimate of landing vs budget and other planning tasks

3) Manage the PFM team:

• Contribute to transversal initiatives of CLF and other business lines or functions to optimize our tools and processes (future AI tools implementation, review of internal processes and reporting tools, etc)
• Train, mentor and direct work of more junior staff within the team.
• After initial implementation and first 9-12months in “run” mode, contribute to formulate a

recommendation on the prospective team set up.

• Lead future hiring effort for the PFM team, as applicable

Candidate background / experience

• Ideally, 6-8 years of experience in either a leveraged finance origination and execution environment, or a credit risk / credit underwriting and monitoring function.
• Relevant academic background (BA/BS degree with economics/finance major coursework, ideally Master's degree – Msc Finance or MBA)

Skills

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
• Prior experience in financial analysis, cash flow modeling experience will be a plus
• Reliability, attention to detail and quality outputs,
• Good organizational skills: ability to keep track of deadlines, to organize its own work and that of the team
• Good communication and interpersonal skills (ability to communicate seamlessly with LATFG deal teams, and capacity to interact convincingly and forcefully with internal partners, in particular with RPC & senior representatives from Bus Line or coverage)
• Fluency in a second language (in particular French, Portuguese, Spanish) is a strong positive

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Investment Banking

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