Structured Finance Group, Associate

Smbc • New York, NY

298d • $175,000 - $225,000 • Remote

About The Position

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges. In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization's extensive global network. The Group's operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, concentration in Math, Economics, Finance, Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
• Knowledge of Excel, VBA, Intex Dealmaker, Intex Desktop.
• Previous structured finance and financial modeling experience.
• Financial industry experience (Investment Bank, Asset Management, Accounting Firm or Rating Agency).
• Ability to be resourceful and multitask within the fast-paced environment.
• Ability to clearly/concisely communicate and summarize complex concepts to various audiences.
• Securities licenses required - SIE, Series 7, 79 & 63.

Responsibilities

• Providing support to senior team members related to the origination, structuring, and execution of transactions within the Structured Finance Group.
• Assisting in the preparation of marketing materials for existing and prospective clients, including analysis of reporting models and data.
• Resourcefully leverage various information sources to help contribute to group's understanding of market trends, deal comparisons, and structural recommendations.
• Reviewing and commenting on deal-related documentation.
• Understanding of and ability to provide deal-based analysis using internal rating and returns models.
• Preparation and presentation of deal-related briefing memos, credit applications, and other materials to applicable internal credit and commercial decision makers.
• Providing analysis that contributes to client recommendations on structural terms for the CLO business.
• Leveraging analysis to help provide marketing materials for existing and prospective CLO clients.
• Building and analyzing structures that conform to the rating agency criteria.
• Working with accounting firms to tie out the cash flows and with investors to explain structural features.
• Utilizing Intex Dealmaker to build DMS and CDI files provided to investors and issuers.
• Building out cashflow models for various securitizations using rating agency criteria.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range between $175,000.00 and $225,000.00.
• Annual discretionary incentive award.
• Competitive portfolio of benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree