Analyst D&CA ECG

CMA Early Career Group program

ING’s Early Career Group (“ECG”) is a best-in-class program providing junior talent the opportunity to develop themselves to well-rounded investment bankers, by covering the core and client facing areas across ING’s Capital Markets and Advisory (“CMA”). The aim of this program is to upskill talent and prepare you for future roles in our organization. In addition to a dedicated ECG curriculum together with other ECG talents of your ‘year group’, you will receive high quality on-the-job and classroom trainings for both hard- and soft-skills which will ensure you are well-equipped to become a future, rounded investment banker.

During the program, analysts will get hands-on experience of what is involved in the day-to-day role as a junior team member across different CMA departments in Amsterdam, such as Corporate Finance, Global Capital Markets, Loan Distributions Group, Corporate Investments and Acquisition Finance. The program comprises [two] rotations of six month each along the three different areas: Advisory, Capital Markets and Structuring to broaden your horizons and sharpen your skills. In each rotation, you will operate as part of a team responsible for the origination, structuring, execution, and distribution of CMA transactions.

After completing the program, you will stay in your home base and put your skills to work across the highly dynamic CMA teams with like-minded people and support ING’s teams across the entire wholesale banking value chain.

Your home base ‘Debt & Capital Advisory’

A great opportunity has become available for an Analyst to join our Debt and Capital Advisory (D&CA) team in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our D&CA team is part of Corporate Finance, which includes Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Equity Capital Markets (ECM), Financial Institutions (FI) Advisory and Private Equity Advisory. Our team is committed to our overall Capital Markets & Advisory (CMA) ambitions to improve client focus and advisory capabilities.

Working in D&CA means working in a dynamic environment on very challenging transactions at the very heart of the ING organization. Together with the other members of your team, you will be involved in complex projects that have great impact and involve public (press) exposure for our clients.

Our Team:

As a D&CA analyst you will be a member of an enthusiastic and highly driven team. Our team plays a key role in the origination and execution of debt advisory and transformational financings (loans, bonds, private placements, equity and hedging).

You will work closely together with the members of our team within Amsterdam and other D&CA locations (Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Madrid, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York), the sector/relationship coverage teams and various product specialists within ING including M&A, Global Capital Markets, Financial Markets (FM), Loan Distribution Group, Lending, Sustainable Finance and Corporate Investments.

Your client base will consist of predominantly EMEA based corporate clients across various sectors and financial (infra) sponsors, where you will be working on corporate style, infra-style and project finance transactions.

You will work as part of independent debt advisory teams directly working for and on behalf of our clients, and as part of multi-disciplined origination, structuring and execution teams for integrated financing solutions, where your role is to put the client interest first and ensure best-in-class delivery to meet and go beyond client expectations. Due to the complexity of the assignments and the international nature of the work and team, you will learn a lot.

Responsibilities:

In this position, you will have a direct impact on important financial events for our clients, such as mergers and acquisitions, large (re)financings, investment programmes and financial restructurings. Your deliverables in the role will be:

• Preparing marketing and execution of (financing) transaction and debt advisory processes for key ING clients and prospects;
• Preparing presentations/pitch books regarding integrated debt, equity and risk mitigation solutions;
• Coordinating debt advisory processes with overall project management, dataroom management, preparation of marketing materials including teasers and information memoranda, coordination with external advisors including due diligence providers and legal counsels and managing Q&A regarding model, credit and loan documentation with prospective (bank and institutional) lenders
• Preparing (often complex) financial models;
• Preparing (implied) credit ratings profile and industry peer group analysis;
• Actively supporting deal generation through continuous dialogue with (senior) team members, relationship managers and originators within other departments;
• Assisting in making credit analyses and in writing credit applications;
• Assisting and analyzing due diligence information and reviewing transaction (legal) documentation;
• Contributing to and supporting the execution of (financing) transaction processes;
• Maintaining active contacts with other departments/disciplines within ING;
• Developing creative solutions and enhance idea replication and knowledge sharing across the Corporate Finance platform and wider ING Wholesale Bank, on the basis of an integrated multi-product approach

Candidate Profile:

• The successful candidate thrives in a collaborative team environment, working closely with colleagues to achieve our ambitions.
• You hold a Masters (post-graduate) degree.
• The ideal candidate has experience in important D&CA sectors including Energy and Carbon Transition through previous work experience or internships
• Prior experience in an Investment Banking/M&A/Debt Avisory or Structured Lending  environment will be an important differentiator
• CFA Level I and/willingness to reach the designation is view as a positive
• You have drive, proactiveness and a genuine curiosity in searching for commercial opportunities and enhancing the quality of analyses, pitches and executions of the team to realize the D&CA team’s ambitions.
• You keep developing your personal commercial capabilities, keep aware of technological and regulatory changes that are impacting the industry and facilitate an innovative culture to bring about changes necessary to compete effectively.
• You have a very strong sense for client needs.
• You are comfortable with data and have strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
• You are detail-oriented and accurate, managing multiple projects simultaneously and meeting tight deadlines.
• Your communication skills (English) help you to create impactful results. You know how to ask the right questions and get the right information.
• You are committed to ING’s Global Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging strategy and ING’s Orange Code values and behaviors.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.