Northern Arc Capital - Associate Vice President - Structured Finance & Products - CFA

Job Objective:

To be primarily responsible for leading efforts in modeling structured finance products, building infrastructure, liaising with multiple counterparties to push products and structures off the ground and front-ending deal execution

Key Accountabilities:

- Executing plain vanilla and complex structured finance transactions; coordinating with various stakeholders involved in deals including clients, law firms, rating agencies, investors and trustees.

- Financial modelling for structured debt products and model review

Legal documentation

- Preparing and vetting investment proposals including optimization of models for best outcomes for Originators and investors.

- Leading process control and integration

- Providing support in new product development

- Ability to understand Trustee Payout Reports for Securitisations and drawing conclusions on asset quality trends for different originators and asset classes.

- Strong awareness of regulatory framework for securitisations and direct assignments

- Guiding a team on transaction execution and counter-party management

- Extensively using MS Excel (including Visual Basic Programming) and other financial modelling tools for structuring debt product

Minimum Qualifications:

- MBA or Post Graduate in Management from a premier institute / CFA / Masters in economics

Minimum Experience:

- 5-8 years of experience in credit analysis, financial modeling & analytics (in investment banks, banks, NBFCs, investment funds or rating agencies)

Skills Required:

Technical Skill:

- Excellent financial analysis and modeling skills

- Experience of working on structured products

- Strong excel skills; knowledge of R will be preferred.

Other Skills:

- The ability to stretch, multitask and deliver under pressure

- Strong interpersonal and effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

- Strong work ethic

- Problem-solving ability

- A keen eye for detail

- The ability to be a highly organized self-starter

- The drive to constantly innovate, improvise and add value