Vice President - Project Finance Specialist

Rado Bank • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Rabobank is a global leader in financing the Energy Transition. This role provides a unique opportunity to work within an experienced and high-performing team that has a strong commercial mandate to grow. As a Vice President Project Finance Specialist on the Structuring & Execution team, you have a central role in structuring transactions for key clients and organizing deal teams for timely and high-quality execution of project finance and other structured finance solutions. The VP level Project Finance Specialist is a key member of the growing Project Finance Americas team, bringing a strong commercial perspective and a passion for supporting the Energy Transition. This role will help expand the platform by sourcing, structuring, executing, and monitoring disciplined, value-accretive financing transactions across renewable energy, energy transition, and data center infrastructure. Project Finance Americas focuses on financing renewable energy assets such as solar, wind, and battery storage, as well as critical infrastructure supporting the energy transition, including data centers and related infrastructure, primarily in North America. The team is dedicated to supporting financing requests that support the decarbonization of the energy sector based on market knowledge and a client-focused approach. The VP level PF Specialist, with support of team members, will be key in identifying and executing transactions to achieve these goals. Working for the Rabobank Group demands special competencies from the individual employee, who must have a natural tendency to collaborate with customers, members and colleagues. The added value manifests itself in permanent, mutual collaboration between all national and international business units, and entities, within the Rabobank Group. The permanent collaboration enables us to achieve shared professional results, where short-term and long-term customer interest is at the forefront. This requires employees to have a personality which is clearly "actively focused on other people", and for employees to make careful consideration between risks and results in the performance of work duties, with the objective to increase and maintain customer confidence in the entire value chain of product development, product distribution and customer advice. Employees within the Rabobank Group are aware of possible risks to the organization in performing their work duties and handle these risks with care.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in business administration
• 7+ years of energy/infrastructure project finance experience or equivalent experience
• Financial structuring and banking skills
• Energy sector and project finance knowledge
• Financial analytical and risk assessment skills
• Interpersonal skills, including teamwork
• Client, marketing, and negotiating skills
• High energy, work ethic, and desire for excellence
• Ability to travel regionally, up to 15%
• Legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Rabobank is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Nice To Haves

• Series 79/63
• Formal Project Modelling Training
• Data center technical experience
• Renewable energy technical experience
• Knowledge of capital markets and/or derivatives

Responsibilities

• Support Deal Captains in maintaining and growing a strong client base on which to build an expanding financing business, and maintaining a visible and positive presence in the market representing Rabobank
• Support Deal Captains in identifying market and technology trends, business opportunities, and converting them to profitable transactions through expert structuring and efficient documentation and closing
• Manage transactions through the internal credit process by consultation, investigation, structuring, and communication with credit, regional, and business line managers
• (Co-) manage deal teams, including training, coaching and supervising junior transactors.
• Assist in the maintenance and monitoring a portfolio of loans including, as needed, expansions, refinancings, restructurings, exits, etc., based on risk assessment.
• Collaborate with other product teams including derivatives and capital markets as well as coordinate with Project Finance Europe and Project Finance Asia
• Assist in the development of new products and techniques in changing markets in collaboration with credit, clients, other lenders, Rabobank corporate coverage and other product professionals, etc.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision plan coverages are effective on your date of hire.
• 401(k) plan
• 50% match of the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k) plan
• Additional 3% of your eligible pay in Safe Harbor contribution
• Up to 3% in annual Discretionary Profit Sharing contributions
• Generous paid time off program to full time employees: up to 20 days of vacation time, 5 days of additional time off plus 7 sick days and 11 US holidays annually
• Dollars for Doers program
• Helping Hands program
• Gift Matching program

What This Job Offers

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