Department Overview:
The Financial Sponsors Group (‘FSG’) is a global team covering ING’s largest financial sponsor (private capital) relationships by income and exposure. Our primary responsibility is to manage these relationships, coordinating across products and geographies to explore and maximise cross-buy opportunities. This involves regular interaction with Leveraged Finance, Corporate Finance, Fund Finance, Financial Markets, Transaction Services and other Sector teams. Added to this, FSG has a secondary portfolio management function with responsibility for allocation and performance of capital, as well as tracking share of wallet and leading reciprocity discussions. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role: 
Client coverage:

Undertake banker role for FSG clients with ability to have strategy discussions with senior stakeholders

Drive selected client relationships with stakeholders on client side on a portfolio of clients to be allocated

Liaise laterally and vertically with stakeholders, peers and juniors to drive the client dialogue, owning the relationship with the client

Identify and drive cross-buy opportunities

Support commercial and credit committee applications

Organize and set up internal deal teams to drive and coordinate origination

Portfolio and data management:

Supervise and contribute to account planning and performance reviews in order to allocate scarce resources in the right relationships and optimize portfolio management with the objective to deliver on KPIs

Helping to create a centre of excellence of financial sponsor activity

Contribute to KYC onboarding and remediation efforts as part of overall client relationship

Internal Management: 

In close cooperation with Acquisition Finance and Corporate Finance, help to set the strategy for, and drive the execution of, ING’s business with your clients

Mentor junior team members

Candidate Profile
Experience/Knowledge:

Knowledge of relevant financial sponsor product suite with appetite to develop in particular fields

Preferably network of existing relationships within financial sponsor universe

Minimum 10 years experience primarily in investment or corporate banking, as well as Financial Markets and Transaction Services

Credit risk experience

Personal Competencies:

Commercial savviness to trace opportunities in client universe and build relationships with client counterparts

Energy to drive transactions and result orientation

Ability to navigate ambiguity and multiple stakeholder environment

Entrepreneurial mindset and tenacity

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