Analyst Corporate Sector Lending

Job Description

Support the execution and management of corporate sector lending transactions across the full transaction lifecycle, ensuring high-quality analysis, documentation, and collaboration with internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Active involvement in live transactions throughout the entire transaction cycle.

• Assist in the execution of corporate lending transactions under supervision, depending on complexity.

• Monitor and review the existing portfolio, ensuring compliance and risk management standards.

• Develop and review financial models, including sensitivity analysis.

• Running internal models including risk ratings and loan pricing, and interfacing with risk management to establish the appropriate internal risk rating.

• Draft internal memos and marketing materials for clients.

• Prepare industry and peer group analysis to support decision-making.

• Draft and review credit analyses and applications and defend credit requests for approval to relevant mandate holders, in line with internal policies.

• Collaborate closely with credit risk management, account managers, syndications, and capital markets teams.

• Participate in meetings and calls with clients and advisors, including transaction-related due diligence.

• Assist with term sheet reviews, negotiation of documentation in partnership with relationship managers and legal counsel, and Conditions Precedents checks.

• Support deal-closing activities and coordination with back-office teams.

• Manage client portfolios in all credit-related matters, focusing on origination, execution, and in-life management of credit facilities.

Your Profile

• Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field with excellent academic results.

• Approx. 2 years of experience in a transactional environment (corporate lending, structured finance, or similar).

• Good understanding of financial structuring, lending, financial markets, and trade finance.

• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and commitment to quality.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong communication and negotiation skills.

• Collaborative mindset and ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

• Proactive, determined, and a team player with high willingness to learn.

• Fluent in English (written and spoken); Italian is a plus.

What We Offer

• Exposure to complex transactions and high-level stakeholders.

• Dynamic, international, and collaborative work environment.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development through training and mentoring.

Working conditions: Full Time

Duration: Permanent

Location: Milan (hybrid) 

About ING

ING offers many opportunities to build a diverse and rewarding career. You will be joining an international innovative digital bank, the first in Italy to adopt a fully flexible smart working model, and you will be working in a stimulating environment where you can grow both as an individual and as a professional. Our purpose - empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business - represents our belief in people’s potential. We don’t judge, coach or to tell people how to live their lives. We empower people and businesses to realize their own vision for a better future.
#doyourthing is our brand direction with us each and every day. It is how we articulate our purpose and our promise to make banking frictionless to the world.
‘do your thing’ is about people being free to live the life they want to live, knowing that they will make their world a little better for it.
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The benefits of joining ING

In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer:

• Super flexible smart working

• Competitive base salaries and performance based bonuses

• Diverse cultures & Innovative mindsets

• International Environment

• Commitment to sustainability

• Lots of training development opportunities to help you grow

• Lots of moments dedicated to physical and mental well-being

• A special day off when it is your birthday: we call it #doyourbirthday!

• And of course we can’t forget: free water & coffee at the office! 

Our Commitment

Diversity is a fundamental element of our corporate culture, and we are fully committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment, based on mutual respect and the value of diversity, offering equal job opportunities to all qualified candidates.

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