Vice President Debt & Capital Advisory (D&CA)

A great opportunity has become available for a Vice-President to join our Debt and Capital Advisory (D&CA) team in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our D&CA team is part of Corporate Finance, which includes Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Equity Capital Markets (ECM), Financial Institutions (FI) Advisory and Private Equity Advisory. Our team is committed to our overall Capital Markets & Advisory (CMA) ambitions to improve client focus and advisory capabilities.

Working in D&CA means working in a dynamic environment on very challenging transactions at the very heart of the ING organization. Together with the other members of your team, you will be involved in complex projects that have great impact and involve public (press) exposure for our clients.

Your new team

As a D&CA Vice-President you will be a member of an enthusiastic and highly driven team. Our team plays a key role in the origination and execution of debt advisory, ratings advisory and transformational financings (loans, bonds, private placements, equity and hedging).

You will work closely together with the members of our team within Amsterdam and other D&CA locations (Frankfurt, Brussels, Madrid, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York), the sector/relationship coverage teams and various product specialists within ING including M&A, Global Capital Markets, Financial Markets (FM), Loan Syndicate, Lending, Sustainable Finance and Corporate Investments.

Your client base will consist of predominantly EMEA based corporate clients across various sectors and financial (infra) sponsors , where you will be working on corporate style, infra-style and project finance transactions.

You will work as part of independent debt advisory teams directly working for and on behalf of our clients, and as part of a multi-disciplined origination, structuring and execution teams for integrated financing solutions, where your role is to put the client interest first and ensure best-in-class delivery to meet and go beyond client expectations. Due to the complexity of the assignments and the international nature of the work and team, you will learn a lot.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will have a direct impact on important financial events for our clients, such as mergers and acquisitions, large (re)financings, investment programmes and financial restructurings. Your deliverables in the role will be:

• Preparing marketing and execution of (financing) transaction and debt advisory processes for key ING clients and prospects;

• Preparing presentations/pitch books regarding integrated debt, equity and risk mitigation solutions;

• Coordinating debt advisory processes with overall project management, dataroom management, preparation of marketing materials including teasers and information memoranda, coordination with external advisors including due diligence providers and legal counsels and managing Q&A regarding model, credit and loan documentation with prospective (bank and institutional) lenders

• Preparing (often complex) financial models;

• Preparing (implied) credit ratings profile and industry peer group analysis;

• Actively supporting deal generation through continuous dialogue with (senior) team members, relationship managers and originators within other departments;

• Assisting in making credit analyses and in writing of credit applications;

• Assisting and analyzing due diligence information and reviewing transaction (legal) documentation;

• Contributing to and supporting the execution of (financing) transaction processes;

• Maintaining active contacts with other departments/disciplines within ING;

• Developing creative solutions and enhance idea replication and knowledge sharing across the Corporate Finance platform and wider ING Wholesale Bank on the basis of an integrated multi-product approach

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. 

You thrive in a collaborative team environment, working closely with colleagues to achieve our ambitions. Furthermore, you have:

• 5-8 years’ relevant experience , with a track record in a transaction-based environment. You hold a Masters (post-graduate) degree.

• In-depth knowledge of the market and products within Corporate Finance, Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets, Loan Syndicate, FM.

• Experience in loan market execution and debt advisory or -coordination is a plus.

• You have drive, proactiveness and a genuine curiosity in searching for commercial opportunities and enhancing the quality of analyses, pitches and executions of the team to realize the D&CA team’s ambitions.

• You keep developing your personal commercial capabilities, keep aware of technological and regulatory changes that are impacting the industry and facilitate an innovative culture to bring about changes necessary to compete effectively.

• You have a very strong sense for client needs and you are renown as a trusted partner to clients.

• You are comfortable with data and have strong analytical and financial modelling skills.

• You are detail-oriented and accurate, managing multiple projects simultaneously and meeting tight deadlines.

• You show sound judgment and solid decision-making skills.

• Your communication skills (English) help you to create impactful results. You know how to ask the right questions and get the right information. Your presentation skills clearly convey the story and capture the critical elements to be credible, persuasive and influential.

• You demonstrate the capabilities and experience of leading, coaching and mentoring early career team members (such as Analysts and Associates) and are renown for effectively partnering with Vice-Presidents, Directors, Managing Directors and senior management in a high impact and value-added way.

• You are committed to ING’s Global Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging strategy and ING’s Orange Code values and behaviors.

Rewards & benefits 

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 36 or 40 hour workweek

• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek

• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)

• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• Mobility card

• Attractive pension scheme

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!