Senior Investment Specialist (Guarantees)

The Senior Investment Specialist (Guarantees) leads and mobilizes financing from commercial sources to ADB's sovereign and non-sovereign clients by originating, structuring, executing, and syndicating debt, issuing political risk and credit guarantees, and maintaining relationships with commercial financiers. The role supports capital market, PPP, infrastructure, and financial market transactions and coordinates loan and guarantee syndications.

Responsibilities

• Lead, identify, structure, execute, and assist in syndicating/distributing transactions involving ADB's sovereign and non-sovereign clients in the infrastructure and financial sectors, including through the use of credit insurance.
• Support teams of the Regional Departments with financing from commercial sources using ADB guarantees with sovereign recourse.
• Work with other financing parties to effectively originate and execute guarantee transactions.
• Lead and mobilize commercial financing through the application of guarantees for transactions with and without recourse to the sovereign.
• Lead and contribute to promoting the innovative application of commercial financing and risk sharing structures and arrangements for more effective resource mobilization and market development.
• Participate in building relationships with insurers, major commercial lenders, institutional investors, and the commercial arms of multilateral and bilateral agencies.
• Build awareness of commercial cofinancing opportunities.
• Support project teams of the Regional Departments in identifying opportunities requiring guarantees and commercial financing.
• Lead and advise on appropriate financing structures for transactions involving low to moderate levels of risks and potential financiers during transactions design and program formulation.
• Recommend improvements to ADB's commercial cofinancing policies, guidelines, and practices.
• Lead and contribute to efforts to increase awareness of ADB's guarantee and mobilization products among other financing parties and ADB Regional Department staff.
• Lead and participate in preparing staff instructions on guarantees and risk distribution.
• Lead and contribute to maintaining knowledge of emerging best practices in guarantee syndication.
• Contribute in preparing related in-house seminars and workshops, updates of commercial financing transaction briefs, manuals, brochures and other publications.

Requirements

• Master's Degree, or equivalent, in a business or finance related field or University degree and at least 5 years specialized experience relevant to the position can be considered.
• At least 10 years of relevant professional work experience in project and/or structured finance, including hands-on experience in originating, structuring, executing, or working with political risk and credit guarantees, and project finance transactions for infrastructure, PPP, and/or financial sector transactions.
• International experience working in development in several countries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Skills

• Project Financing
• Structured Finance
• Political Risk Guarantees
• Credit Guarantees
• Debt Syndication
• Loan Syndication
• PPP Transactions
• Infrastructure Finance
• Financial Sector Transactions
• Commercial Finance
• Capital Markets
• Financing Origination
• Financing Structuring
• Financing Execution
• Relationship Management
• International Development Experience

Languages

English