Associate Director, Senior Banker

Associate Director, Senior Banker

• The Associate Director, Senior Banker I (“AD”) is responsible for all aspects of the project cycle, including project origination, structuring, due diligence, execution, implementation and (where relevant) monitoring, for all types of investment instruments offered by the Bank. The AD is also responsible for business/pipeline development, client management and policy dialogue.
• Externally, the AD is one of the Bank’s representatives with clients and other stakeholders, while internally the AD is responsible for ensuring that projects are originated, executed, implemented and monitored in line with the procedures, policies and strategies of the Bank.
• The AD takes responsibility for effective leadership of project teams, supervises junior banking staff, and provides adequate coaching and mentoring assistance. The AD also has a primary role in leading complex transactions or new frameworks and may be engaged in the bank-wide or department-wide product development projects.
• This role will focus on Manufacturing & Services and Natural Resources, while potentially covering other Corporate Sectors, including Food & Agribusiness, Real Estate, and Telecommunications, Media & Technology.

Background

• The project life cycle involves several stages from origination to signing, followed by implementation and monitoring until full completion and repayment or exit. All the stages involve different tasks such as business marketing, project due diligence analysis, structuring and approval, negotiation and signing of project agreements, disbursement and monitoring.
• The role of the AD includes business origination and development of debt and equity transactions (along the full spectrum of transaction complexity), and ensuring timely and technically accurate delivery, effective implementation and monitoring of portfolio projects in line with the Bank’s operational objectives. The AD leads more junior colleagues to ensure efficient processing of deal flow and portfolio monitoring.
• The AD builds and maintains relationships at their peer level with internal and/or external stakeholders in relation to business development, project execution, implementation and monitoring, policy dialogue, co-financing arrangements and donor funding, as applicable.
• The ultimate responsibility over the business plan delivery including managing internal and external stakeholders lies with the Regional Heads, Business Leaders and/or Team Director and AD should consult them when critical business decisions need to be made in this respect.
• Depending on relevant skills and experience, the AD might also be expected (under the supervision of the Regional Heads, Business Leaders or Team Director) to undertake some strategic tasks for the team as a whole, including but not limited to business development responsibilities, project portfolio management responsibilities, and/or leading policy dialogue initiatives. Building capacity of junior colleagues through coaching and mentoring is an integral part of the AD role. The AD could also be given some direct country coverage responsibility that would include managing all aspects relating the origination, execution and monitoring of transaction, coordination with the relevant RO and management of key relevant external and internal stakeholders.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Origination, Structuring and Execution

• Contribute to the Regional/Team origination efforts.
• Guided by the Head of Office, Regional Heads, Business Leaders and/or Team Director in the context of key business decisions in the process, the AD is expected to manage structure, negotiate (including review of legal documentation) and execute transactions, work with clients, authorities, consultants and internal units as applicable, take responsibility for all aspects of the project cycle work and ensure that all transaction risks (credit and reputational, among others) are properly identified and articulated.
• Manage the resources and the workload of the project teams under their supervision.
• Oversee the project due diligence process ensuring it meets the Bank’s standards.
• Ensure quality and appropriateness of TC assistance components, which support the investments or contribute to policy dialogue initiatives.
• Ensure that all transactions under their supervision are completed within the specified time frames to a high standard (including all internal memoranda and Board reports) and in line with the policies, procedures and objectives of the Bank.

Portfolio Monitoring, Value Creation and Reporting

• Ensure effective monitoring of all projects within their responsibility, including verifying the quality of regular monitoring reports; maintaining or supervising the management of client relationships; actively managing the resolution of any implementation/monitoring issues in cooperation with relevant Portfolio Managers and/or Management; managing and supervising more junior bankers who assist in portfolio monitoring.
• Supervise implementation and monitoring of, and reporting on, relevant TC assignments to ensure their compliance with donor reporting requirements, operational objectives and that all reports are of a high quality.
• Take responsibility for ensuring timely notification of any critical portfolio issues to the relevant Portfolio Manager and/or Management, ensuring availability of adequate data and information for the Portfolio Manager and/or Management to be able to take timely decisions.

Policy Dialogue

• In cooperation with relevant units within the Bank (e.g., Policy VP3, OCE) and Banking country teams (if applicable), contribute to the Bank’s policy dialogue efforts in order to achieve the objectives defined by their line manager.
• Assist in providing necessary support, in the form of relevant information or documentation or meeting participation, towards efforts to procure grants and technical cooperation funds to complement investment projects or required