Objective:
To manage the governments loan portfolio and debt guarantees, including the structuring and execution of new loans and guarantees.
Essential Duties:
- Supervise Government loans structuring, pricing, negotiation with banks and execution of loan (corporate facilities, project and leverage finance) documents.
- Structuring of asset and cash flow backed financing structures
- Oversight of Public Private Partnership (PPP) loans
- Oversight of government-backed Utility Project Finance
- Advanced knowledge of LMA loan language
- Oversight of GRE debt issuance plans
- Responsible for bank relationships on loan capital markets
- Advanced financial modelling of leverage and project financings
- Supervise government guarantees & government loans
- Provide the necessary support to the line manager and perform any other related tasks assigned.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in the field of financial sciences or economics or its equivalent.
- It is preferable to obtain a specialized certificate in the field of the job.
- 12+ years in structured, project, export/ECA or leveraged and asset-based finance, gained at an investment bank, sovereign wealth fund, ministry of finance or debt management office.
- Demonstrated track record structuring and closing LMA-documented facilities, project and PPP financings, ECA-covered facilities and securitisations.
Technical Skills
- Deep fluency in LMA loan documentation and negotiation dynamics.
- Strong structured and project-finance modelling: cash-flow waterfalls, leverage sizing, and securitisation cash-flows.
- Working knowledge of ECA mechanics
- Working understanding of Basel bank regulation as it bears on bank appetite and pricing.
- Awareness of Islamic finance structuring (Ijara, Murabaha, Sukuk)