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BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets, International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors.
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions.
Business area/dept overview
In the UK, Global Banking focuses on 3 main business areas: Corporate Clients Group, the gateway of BNP Paribas’ integrated offer, which manages all the interactions between the Bank and its corporate clients; Capital Markets, operates across debt and equity; and Transaction Banking, which deals with Cash management, Transactional FX, Deposits, Trade financing and Supply Chain Solutions.
The Energy, Resources & Infrastructure department is part of Real Assets EMEA. It is comprised of circa 130 professionals and has a leading position as adviser and arranger of limited-recourse financing solutions in the following sectors across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region:
- Infrastructure
- Power and Renewables
- Oil & Gas (upstream, midstream and downstream)
- Metals & Mining
The team advises clients with respect to their debt financing needs, arranges and structures debt financing as mandated lead arranger, cross sells other products of the bank (including hedging and cash management solutions), acts as coverage for certain clients and monitors its exposure to transactions on its book. The team is located in Paris, Brussels and London (main hubs), with local teams in Milan and Madrid.
Within ERI, the Transaction team is in charge of execution and origination support for new deals, in close cooperation with the Origination teams (organised by sector) and the Credit Portfolio Management (CPM) team.
Purpose & Scope of role
- Assist the senior team members in the day-to-day business activities
- Contribute to a variety of tasks allowing a general introduction to the business
- Scope: Part of the Energy, Resources & Infrastructure Team within Real Assets, Capital Markets, covering EMEA / UK activities
Key responsibilities of role
- Contribute on the day to day execution of deal activity across Energy, Resources & Infrastructure EMEA
- Ensure quality and timely preparation of all materials required for deal preparation
Marketing and origination Support
- Contribute to the preparation of screening memos, commercial proposals/pitches and, as applicable, research papers, preliminary financial modelling and debt sizing analysis
- Prepare presentations and pitches;
- Perform background industry and company research, synthesising information from diverse sources;
- Interact with internal parties in both marketing and execution;
- Track developments in the market;
Execution
- Develop or review / run financial models, prepare related deliverables and (as applicable) interact with the client on those aspects
- Actively contribute to the preparation of credit papers, information memoranda and certain due diligence aspects (in particular any model audit)
- Participate in legal aspects (notably those aspects of the term sheet and finance documentation related to the model)
- Assist in the KYC on-boarding process
- Challenge senior officers on both commercial and technical aspects of transactions
- Ensure handover of the responsibility for new deals to the Portfolio & Analytics team upon closing, in accordance with agreed guidelines
Regulation
- Ensure that all regulatory and commercial training is completed on time and refreshed as required;
- Responsible for adherence to the Bank’s corporate policies, to its internal Compliance regulations as well as to appropriate external Regulators
Experience, qualifications & competencies
- A degree from a leading university with an excellent academic record; or equivalent work experience
- Previous experience within top tier investment bank or infrastructure fund and in similar business area
- Understand clients' needs and provides a first level of answer within his/her perimeter of responsibilities
- Proven credit analysis experience and commercial knowledge of capital markets, including debt markets and ERI sectors
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- Determination to learn and improve performance
- Capacity to meet deadlines under pressure
- Circulate correctly and in a timely manner information to senior members
- Rigour and detail oriented, allowing to gradually increases level of autonomy and efficiency in production of models and analysis
- IT literacy in Microsoft Office
- Fluent in English, another European language would be beneficial
- Strong team player
- Creativity in suggesting adequate ways to solve issues
- Critical of own work / Professional reaction to positive and negative feed-back and use of this feed-back to improve
- Strong capacity to support and foster a culture of good conduct
- Demonstrate proactivity, transparency and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks
- Consider the implications of his/her actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions, and escalate issues to your manager when unsure.
