Associate or VP, Corporate Sector Lending Japan

Business: Corporate Sector Lending

Entity: ING Bank N.V., Tokyo Branch

Job Title: Associate/VP, Corporate Sector Lending

Location: Tokyo

Reporting to: Head of Corporate Sector Lending Japan

• Advise, structure, and execute primarily lending transactions to provide products tailored to customer requirements.
• Undertake activities which include pitching, credit analysis, modelling, writing credit applications, negotiations, and documentation on new transactions as well as all monitoring tasks that come with the management of an existing portfolio of lending and Financial Markets limits, including reviews, covenant monitoring and all regulatory reporting, to provide a comprehensive service for ING.
• Keep track of market developments for lending in the jurisdictions and/or sectors covered to be able to adapt and respond to current situations.

With a focus on corporate clients and the guidance of the Team Head or other senior members in the team (where applicable), to perform the following duties within the scope of corporate lending (with products including but not limited to revolving credits and term loans on bilateral or syndicated basis):

• Prepare credit proposals and manage the credit approval process for each transaction, ensuring follow-up on post-approval conditions and covenants
• Advise clients on structuring of deals and participate actively in negotiations and client
• Provide support and advice to Sector teams on all aspects of lending products and on issues related to all risk and return related drivers
• Execute and maintain high quality lending execution activities, including participation in negotiation of documentation with clients, coordinating with Risk and Legal teams (if required, with external legal counsel)
• Ensure appropriate portfolio management through monitoring and annual (and /or group) reviews. This includes responsibility for the quality of your credit files (costs, actual losses (co-responsibility), data quality, effectiveness, accuracy/efficiency, timeliness)
• Seek and pursue new opportunities with both existing and new clients in cooperation with the Sector teams (i.e. the relationship management teams) by actively pursuing bilateral, club-type and/or syndicated transactions
• Work in conjunction with the Team Head to achieve the KPIs for the team.

To be considered for this role, you should ideally possess the following pre-requisites:

• Degree holder in finance, accounting, economics, law or comparable
• About 5 years of diversified and proven deal making / credit experience in (international) wholesale financial services
• Experience in the bi-lateral, club-type and/or syndicated lending transactions including negotiation of documentation.
• Strong knowledge of the Japanese loan market is an added advantage
• Strong financial and analytical skills and has an eye for details
• Is “Hands-on” and possesses a positive and “can do” attitude
• A strong team player with good interpersonal skills
• An effective communicator who is fluent in Japanese and English both verbally and written
• Proficient in MS Office applications