Syndicated Finance Intern
Commerzbank are offering a 12 month Internship for a post-graduate in the Syndicated Finance team as part of the Capital Markets division.
As a member of Syndicated Finance junior pool, which provides support across the entire platform, you will play an active role in all the functions of the London team:
- International Loan Origination: Responsible for securing roles in syndicated loans for corporate clients
- Leveraged Markets: Responsible for structuring, underwriting and distributing high yield bonds and institutional term loans for both corporates and leveraged buyouts
- Structured Corporate Finance: Responsible for producing analysis and ideas to promote a strategic discussion with clients (typically debt advice). The team can take the lead in executing event driven transactions. Additionally, we support the internal approval process with credit analysis and financial modelling
Activities
- Information gathering and analysis of data for internal and external purposes
- Supporting in the execution of mandates incl. the preparation of internal votums and assessments
- Develop high quality marketing materials, such as multi-product client presentations
- Deal with all aspects high yield bond and institutional term loan origination & execution including marketing materials, pricing updates and maintaining comparable transaction databases
- Prepare financial models and analysis to facilitate pitches on the Structured Corporate Finance side looking at debt capacity, credit migration and event driven finance
Skills / Abilities
- Develop understanding of methodologies used by the major agencies
- Develop high quality financial modelling skills
- Establish clear/detailed plans, anticipating potential obstacles and plan how to overcome/accommodate these
- Effectively recognise and then manage internal/external conflicts and involve senior management when required
- Ability to learn all the relevant internal systems and processes
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate articulately