Dcm Ssa

Job Title DCM Supranational, Sovereign & Agency Origination

Location Paris

Corporate Title Director

Details of the role and how it fits into the team

The DCM Origination team are product specialists responsible for winning debt capital market business and providing expertise to frequent and prospective issuers in partnership with Investment Banking Coverage and the Institutional Client Group. Typical clients include public sector entities, corporates, banks and insurance companies and the primary products offered by the team are public bonds, private placements, covered bonds, EMTN programme issuance, liability management, Islamic finance (Sukuk) and capital consideration for banks and insurance companies.

Debt origination clients are typically the largest and most sophisticated parties in the financing market and as a result the transactions are often high profile. As a result, covering these clients can be a demanding task and expectations are high both internally and externally. Debt origination is also a highly competitive field, with many banks positioning for similar types of business.

The DCM SSA Origination team based in London is seeking a Director to be based in Paris and to support the origination of new issue debt products and risk management offerings the Supranational, Sovereign and Agency sector, taking ownership for a number of clients in the team portfolio and supporting teams based in London and Frankfurt

Your key responsibilities
- Work closely with senior coverage professionals to support their ongoing coverage of key franchise clients and cover select accounts directly in the medium term
- Provide practical support for the execution of business
- Take on increasing responsibility for the process management of executing the more straightforward transactions
- In the medium term, expect to become much more directly involved in client coverage which would also involve travelling globally

Your skills and experience
- Minimum three years‘ experience in Debt Capital Markets, preferably covering sovereign or public sectors issuers across diverse geographies
- Exceptional skills using Bloomberg, Excel and an array of conventional DCM market data sources to efficiently analyse information and prepare high quality content for issuers
- The ability and willingness to work as an integral team member, managing time efficiently, in order to work simultaneously on a wide array of different projects, each of which will move at a different pace
- Confidence questioning the status quo and existing processes, coupled with the ability to design and implement high quality solutions and idea generation, for which prior experience with similar clients would be highly additive
- Strong awareness of the macro-environment and political developments, with prior experience advising public sector clients on fundraising vital
- The ability to identify products which are relevant for your client and to articulate the implications and strategic considerations in a clear and concise matter

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