Associate – Financing & Advisory

Major Accountabilities/Principal Responsibilities:

We are currently recruiting for an Associate to join our Financing & Advisory Group based in Sydney, Australia to support the origination and execution activities across a broad range of structured finance transactions in particular within the energy & renewables sector across Australia and New Zealand. The candidate will also work with other business lines within Financing & Advisory such as Infrastructure, Digital, Mining & Metals and Real Estate.  This role is suited to a candidate who has experience at senior Analyst or Associate level The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build close relationships with the teams onshore and within the organization more broadly on a regional and global basis.  This is an exciting opportunity within a fast-paced, results focused, global organization that values diversity.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Preparing, customizing, optimizing and maintaining the financial model supporting advisory mandates, including creating and running financial scenarios and sensitivities
• Interrogating the financial model for financing mandates including creating and running of sensitivities and checking integrity
• Ability to review and, where appropriate, supervise financial modelling tasks undertaken by junior staff, and completing more complex modelling tasks where required.
• Staying abreast of developments across sectors, in particular the energy & renewables sector, as well as current transactions and opportunities in the market
• Providing day to day transaction support including structuring, pricing, preparing of credit applications, undertaking detailed financial analyses and due diligence analyses and assisting the deal team leader to provide best-in-class lending and advisory services to the client base
• Respecting all relevant compliance practices and other internal requirements in relation to the execution of advisory & lending transactions
• Managing internal processes relating to the arranging and advisory business (e.g. updating databases, credit application writing, completing relevant internal system-based processes)
• Identifying potential marketing opportunities and preparing pitch material (including reviewing feasibility studies, detailed analysis of financial models, etc.)
• Starting to establish a network of contacts at key clients and prospective clients
• Supervision / development of junior team members including appropriate delegation and review of certain tasks suitable to the skills and experience of those junior team members whilst maintaining a high quality of overall team execution

Qualifications, Experience & Knowledge Required:

• University degree in a relevant discipline (Finance, Engineering, Business, Commerce, Law) or a professional financial qualification
• Post graduate qualifications considered favourably
• Experience in energy & renewables finance and sector knowledge, debt or equity advisory, and/or another structured finance environment utilising similar tools, processes and procedures will also be favourably considered
• 3-5 years’ relevant experience at senior Analyst or Associate level
• Advanced Microsoft Excel including strong financial modelling skills
• Experience in generating pitch material that is clear, structured, compelling, and comprehensive in addressing clients’ needs
• Strong numerical skills with an advanced understanding of accounting concepts, financial statements and cashflows

Behavioral Competencies Required:

• Ability to contribute to the team’s efforts to build and maintain trusted client relationships
• Consistency and rigour in following up on clients’ needs and act upon team’s priorities
• Display a sense of ownership in the business and pride in the quality and accuracy of work presented internally and transactions executed for clients
• Discipline and team collaboration to develop business adapted to clients’ and markets’ needs
• Ability to prioritise tasks and to manage competing deadlines, and to deliver on team’s priorities
• Experience of working (including remotely) with people with diverse, international backgrounds and acting on team priorities

Functional Relationships:

Internal: staff from business divisions and support functions locally, regionally and globally      

External: clients, prospects and external advisors (e.g. lenders, legal counsel, technical consultants)

Environment:

Founded by a group of entrepreneurs in 1864 “to promote the development of trade and industry in France”, Societe Generale is today one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, and committed to the positive transformations of society and the economy.

Active in the real economy for over 160 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 117,500 members of staff in 66 countries and supports on a daily basis 25 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions.

Societe Generale has been present in Australia since 1981. Located in Sydney, it provides financing and advisory, as well as global markets solutions. Leveraging the strength of its client coverage and leadership in structured finance together with product and service offerings such as debt capital markets and asset-backed products, Societe Generale supports its Australian wholesale clients in their financing and advisory needs and serves its global clients who wish to access the Australian market with global banking services. Societe Generale also provides its global markets solutions by offering futures execution and clearing, equity derivatives sales and structured product distribution. Working with us means being part of an exciting collective vision: “Building together, with our clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions”. Here, you can challenge yourself in a stimulating, flexible and inclusive workplace with numerous career prospects. You can make a positive impact in the societies where we operate and evolve in a people-oriented workplace. With us, you can merge your career aspirations with your personal commitments through the values that bring us together: Commitment, Innovation, Responsibility and Team Spirit. Societe Generale actively encourages internal and international mobility, offering staff at all stages of their career the opportunity to explore new functional and geographic opportunities.