CIB Managing Director - Loan Capital Markets

Fifth Third Bank • Chicago, IL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The CIB Managing Director – LCM Syndicate is a leveraged finance leadership role standing between and interfacing with Originations and the Loan Sales and Trading desk. Individual will build relationships with clients, investors, peers, and executive management to manage risk through sound underwriting decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in Banking, Investment Banking, or Capital Markets
• Proven track record of success in originating, structuring, and closing complex financial transactions.
• Leadership experience and history of involvement in key decisions around a growing financial services business.
• Expertise in one or more industries.
• Established contacts at private equity firms and institutional investors
• Securities Industry Essentials (SIE), Series 79, and Series 63 licenses required
• Ability to travel as required.
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills across matrixed organizations and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong mentoring, leadership and teamwork skills.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree preferred.
• Series 24 (Supervisor) license preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert on high-yield markets, including structure, pricing, syndication strategies, and deal execution end-to-end.
• Develop and maintain relationships with internal (bankers) and external (corporate and private equity) clients focused on deal execution and advancement of the Syndicated Leveraged Finance platform.
• Develop and implement strategies that drive outstanding results across the Loan Capital Markets Team.
• Work with Originators and the Financial Sponsor Group to provide leadership in the evaluation and execution of complex capital markets transactions in the high-yield loan and bond markets.
• Work with Senior Bankers, Investment Bankers, and other members of the Commercial leadership team to provide training and resources around the effort to identify and address major capital markets opportunities in their geographies or industry verticals.
• Develop relationships with peers at other firms and high-yield investors in both the broadly syndicated and private credit markets.
• The Managing Director may play a supervisory role and be responsible for providing employees timely, candid and constructive performance feedback; developing employees to their fullest potential by providing challenging opportunities; developing the appropriate talent pool to ensure adequate bench strength and succession planning; recognizing and rewarding employees for accomplishments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Differentiated compensation offerings
• Incentive compensation is combined with either a base salary or a draw to determine total cash compensation, and incentive compensation is based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance.
• Extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior