Portfolio Manager Project Finance - Associate

About the job
We have a great opportunity to join Portfolio Management Project Finance as Associate. This is a lending professional role within the front office. As a key member of the Portfolio Management team, your responsibility is to actively manage the lending portfolio and optimize returns through strong analytics and capital velocity. On the team, you will be exposed to and work with different colleagues from several sectors, TM, CM&A, Risk and Legal whilst aligning with back office / support teams. At the same time, the Portfolio Management team plays a key role in further optimizing our processes for regulatory readiness, operational effectiveness and portfolio optimization.

Roles & Responsibilities
The Portfolio Management team will be the ‘center of excellence’ for the in-life management of ING’s lending exposure. It covers all activities post the initial funding to the final repayment of a lending transaction. As a front office department, it will closely collaborate with Origination & Structuring colleagues and product specialists to ensure a seamless client experience. The Portfolio Management function will be organised along product and sector considerations. Each portfolio manager will cover a set of portfolio clients and act as the first point of contact for the ongoing credit monitoring, analytics, internal risk and other reporting. Portfolio Management supports the identification of cross-buy opportunities and is also closely involved in the delivery of ING’s capital velocity targets. The team will be supported by Global Lending Support in Dublin and the ING hub in the Philippines. Together with Tribe Lending and CLEC, it will be a key driver of improving processes, standardisation, and digitalisation across Lending.

Specific responsibilities of an Associate include actively managing together with the Portfolio Managers all facets of the individual files booked in your dedicated portfolio, including but not limited to:

• Quarterly and annual credit reviews
• Process amendment and waiver requests, write or review credit modifications, submit to risk and address Q&A, follow-up on the required legal amendments to the documentation until execution
• Prepare and process annual risk rating updates
• Diligent and proactive credit monitoring through the review of all financial covenants and operating performance (e.g. financial models, proforma adjustments, key drivers, etc.) and track compliance of covenants prepared by an administrative support team
• Identification and resolution of Early Warning Signals for a deterioration in credit quality
   

In addition, an Associate will monitor and identify together with the Portfolio Managers market developments and proactively manage their potential impact on your portfolio by

• Preparing and maintaining reports as requested by regulators or internal stakeholders
• Preparing quarterly Credit Risk Management (“CRM”) portfolio reviews
• Maintaining various department and industry databases/trackers
• Maintaining internal portfolio tracking metrics
• Responding to ad hoc internal requests on portfolio composition and exposure
• Coordinating and working with offshore portfolio support teams
• Managing lending limits and Capital Velocity programs

An Associate will take an active role in the various Virtual Client Teams by:

• Interfacing with relationship managers and sector specialists to ensure an active dialogue on credit trends, challenges and opportunities for individual clients
• Contributing to idea generation for value added cross-buy or client opportunities

An Associate is expected to build a culture of operational excellence by:

• Staying up-to-date on organizational operating policies and procedures (i.e. Risk, Legal, etc.) to ensure appropriate protocols are implemented and followed, and facilitating accordingly
• Supporting the implementation of strategic initiatives, including enhancements to the credit monitoring process to improve business efficiency
• Supporting the implement transformation projects
• Working with and coaching Analysts, trainees and interns by supporting them in their personal and professional development

Qualifications

• University degree major in business/economics, law or relevant business discipline. CFA and/or MBA a plus
• 2-5 years of relevant credit analysis experience in the banking industry

Competencies

• Collaborative and inclusive team player with consistent high marks on Orange Code behaviour; embracing diversity and cross-cultural awareness and able to work effectively across functions
• Strong financial and credit analysis capabilities
• Financial modelling
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Collaborative mindset
• Committed and dedicated individual who wants to continuously improve
• Self-motivated and willing to work in a deal oriented and deadline driven environment
• Knowledge of Legal Documentation
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

About us 

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Read more about that here: Working at ING   Join us and apply today!