Senior Financial Markets Documentation Officer

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• Strategy / Policy Development and Implementation: Develop strategy and policy processes for capital markets domain to ensure that funding officers can effectively execute transactions while at the same time minimising operational risk for the EIB.
• Provide as a true expert insights and strategic input with regard to the short, medium and long term while cooperating closely with the Head of Division, other departments in the EIB and external counterparties relevant for the domain.
• Deliver recommendations and propose new strategies to the Head of Division and internal working groups (where needed, based on work in external working groups in which the EIB participates) to develop robust capital markets documentation and related processes.
• Operational lead in evaluating changes in capital markets domain which affect the documentation and post-trade infrastructure and advise the Head of Division accordingly to support the EIB’s positioning, as well as deliver opinions on inquiries from internal and external counterparties on capital markets documentation matters.
• Review and edit from a regulatory perspective the EIB’s publications containing potentially material information on the EIB and advise the Head of Division in this regard.
• Ensure and/or conduct research on capital markets documentation matters as well as legal and regulatory matters of significance to the EIB’s interests to maximise knowledge in strategic matters and reduce operational risk in the Department.

• Act as a focal point for capital markets documentation and related matters, both to guide the Head of Division for critical decisions and meetings, and to ensure effective exchange of information in FI and with other departments of the EIB (and where relevant, with external counterparties); with independent action only when not in the realm of critical/strategic decisions.
• Prepare and, where appropriate, deliver briefing material and internal reports to the Head of Division.
• Manage the existing (and develop new) tactical and operational relationships in the financial community, peer MDB’s, other EU institutions, supranational organisations, financial counterparts and professional associations in order to enhance and/or develop a robust position for the EIB in terms of capital markets documentation and related processes.
• Coordinate the work activities of junior team members on a project basis and provide functional coaching and support to less experienced colleagues to increase their technical knowledge and to increase the efficiency and quality of the work activities carried out by the team.
• Deal with highly complex aspects of individual capital markets operational documentation matters to protect the EIB’s position, in particular from a financial and reputational perspective.
• Initiate new research based on historic data, major market developments or strategic choices made by the EIB.
• Actively contribute to and steer contribution of team to knowledge sharing within Division/Department and on cross Directorate basis.
• Execute with a complete degree of autonomy and initiative the most complex transactions, which require extensive planning, engineering and/or negotiation with several high-level stakeholders and expert knowhow of a broad range of financial products and solutions.

• Represent the EIB in external working groups and/or other high-level negotiations with external parties in line with the mandate given by the Head of Division or Director.

• University degree (minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor) preferably in Law. Other university degrees such as for instance Finance or Economics may also be considered together with demonstrated experience in documentation matters.
• Additional relevant professional qualification would be preferable, and in particular, a common law legal qualification (New York or England).
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in the field of capital markets documentation, preferably at least 3 years in a legal structuring team of a commercial bank.
• Experience with negotiating commercial paper programmes would be an advantage.
• Experience with regulatory matters (i.e. U.S. securities laws) relevant for EIB’s capital markets activities would be an advantage.
• Experience with the digitalisation efforts (e.g., blockchain, infrastructure digitalisation efforts) in the capital markets domain would be an advantage.
• Proficient knowledge of how financial markets function.
• Proficient knowledge of financial law and documentation (in relation to capital markets).
• Knowledge of the EIB’s standard office tools (particularly Word and Excel).
• Excellent knowledge of English and/or French (**) with a good command of the other. (Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage).

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