Vice President / Senior Vice President, Credit Origination

Country: China

Responsible for originating public and private credit opportunities in APAC including leveraging various financing products (e.g. loans, bonds, etc.), covering a wide credit spectrum (IG, HY).

Key Responsibilities    

1. Origination and Structuring:

• Lead the identification and origination of debt financing opportunities, aligning with the firm’s strategic objectives and client needs

• Execute comprehensive debt solutions across a spectrum of plain and structured debt instruments, including bonds and loans

• Oversee client engagement, including pitch preparation, negotiation, including advising client on strategic financing objectives

• Conduct financial analysis and management transaction documentation, credit approval proposals, pricing and return model

• Ensure seamless execution of deal closing and post-closure management

• Actively involved in syndication preparation (including investor presentation materials) and deal soundings and liquidity analysis and discussions, etc

2. Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Supervise junior team members and provides necessary guidance and fostering professional development

3. Performance Accountability

• Responsible for achieving assigned business performance targets, demonstrating a commitment to excellence in all aspects of debt origination and syndication.

Requirements

• Minimum 9 years of relevant product experience in syndicated debt and structuring, including corporate, structured, capex financing, acquisition finance, leveraged lending, venture debt

• Experienced in debt and debt-like instruments and structures – including bonds (public and private note structuring), loans, share-backed, market derivatives

• Extremely solid problem understanding, and solving skills

• Reasonably good access to major clients in the region and good relationship building and interpersonal skills

• Excellent financial analytical skills

• Familiarized with credit markets and related products and how they interact and applied: corporate financing, IRS, FX, etc.

• Excellent interpersonal communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills, Strong Team player

• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English