Associate, ESG Specialty Finance, ESG Credit

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Bank of America Corporation Full time

Job Description:

Company Overview

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us

The Team

Embedded across the bank's eight lines of business, the formation of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Credit reflects how the bank helps fuel the global economy, build trust and credibility, and represent a company that people want to work for, invest in, and do business with. The ESG Credit team will support the continued growth in sustainable, renewable, and green finance and further deliver on the bank's commitment to help society transition to a low-carbon economy.

Role Description

Associates support the credit analysis and credit underwriting of the renewable finance transactions as well as monitoring of the portfolio. Transaction types include project finance debt, bridge financing, revolving debt facilities, and interest rate/FX hedging for non-recourse style transactions. Transactions are executed in solar, wind, and other renewables sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Perform financial and credit analysis, risk rating analysis
  • Prepare and/or review transaction structures, stress scenarios, financial models
  • Review project documentation including engineer reports, terms and conditions
  • Prepare Credit Approval Memorandums for approval for new transactions, modifications, and renewals
  • Engage with various partners including GCIB Enterprise Credit Officers for recourse obligors, Enterprise Credit Risk, and Global Markets Risk
  • Provide input into internal governance forums, the drafting of policies and procedures, audits, and regulatory meetings
  • Assist in development of white papers for new sectors, technologies, business models and products, Understand regulatory environment
  • Coordinate periodic and/or ad hoc reporting such as quarterly portfolio reviews
  • Provide input into key projects/initiatives across the bank
  • Join in due diligence discussions with clients

Additional responsibilities include managing analysts and the portfolio monitoring team work flow to ensure quality of work and timeliness of deliverables in support of the credit approval process. The successful candidate must be able to handle multiple projects, deliver high quality and timely results, and provide appropriate coaching and development to junior teammates.

Requirements

  • BA/BSc degree required; Finance, Accounting or Engineering focus preferred
  • Relevant prior experience in financial services, including roles within credit risk management, structuring, trading, asset management, origination, rating agencies involving energy or power
  • Passion for renewable finance, motivation and desire to research and understand new technologies and business structures
  • Strong knowledge or capacity to learn the bank's credit processes and systems
  • Ability to establish partnerships across the organization with GSFG, Enterprise Credit Risk, and other support partner
  • Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency with Bloomberg, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Willingness/desire to improve and/or streamline processes

Bank of America

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements



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