Investment Specialist

As an Investment Specialist (Syndications), you will mobilize financing from commercial sources (banks and other entities) to ADB’s non-sovereign (i.e., commercial/corporate) and sovereign clients by originating, structuring, executing, and syndicating debt and maintaining relationships with commercial financiers.

Project Management:

• Support and advise on financing from commercial sources and identify financing partners during transaction design.
• Support PSOD teams and the Regional Departments for transactions with financing from commercial sources.
• Identify, structure, execute, and assist in syndicating/distributing transactions involving ADB’s non-sovereign and sovereign clients in the infrastructure, financial, agriculture and social sectors.
• Work with other financing parties to effectively originate and execute loan syndications including B loans & parallel loans.
• Lead and/or support the administration of B loans, including maintaining adequate documentation.

Business Development:

• Mobilize commercial financing through the application of B loans, parallel loans and/or bonds.
• Lead, support and contribute to promoting the innovative application of commercial financing and risk sharing structures and arrangements for more effective resource mobilization and market development.
• Coordinate within project teams the mobilization of external debt financing.
• Support building relationships with major commercial lenders, institutional investors, and the commercial arms of multilateral and bilateral agencies.
• Lead and support in building awareness of syndication opportunities.

Strategy, Planning and Administration:

• Lead and/or support project teams in identifying opportunities requiring commercial financing.
• 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 co-financing policies, guidelines and practices.
• Contributes to the administration and reporting of ADB’s mobilization products.

Knowledge Management:

• Contribute to efforts to increase awareness of ADB’s B loans and risk sharing products among other financing parties and ADB staff.
• Lead and/or participate in preparing staff instructions on Syndications.
• Lead and/or contribute to maintaining knowledge of emerging best practices in loan syndications.
• Collects relevant pricing data in support of pricing of non-sovereign debt transactions;
• Lead and/or contribute to preparing related in-house seminars and workshops, updates of commercial financing transaction briefs, manuals, brochures and other publications.

Staff Supervision:

• Provide leadership and support to reporting staff.
• Supervise the performance of reporting staff, providing clear direction and regular monitoring and feedback on performance
• Ensure the on-going learning and development of reporting staff.

Qualifications:

• A university degree in business, finance, or any related field; preferably at post-graduate level or its equivalent.
• At least 6 years of relevant professional work experience in project and/or structured finance, including hands-on experience in originating, structuring, executing, and syndicating loans and project finance transactions for infrastructure and/or financial sector transactions.
• International experience working in several developing countries.
• Ability to supervise National Staff, Administrative Staff to facilitate work planning, delivery, and quality review.
• Written and verbal proficiency in English
• Please refer to the link for the ADB Competency Framework for International Staff Level 3.

Source:  https://www.adb.org/careers/240212