Vice President, Transportation Finance

Vice President, Transportation Finance

Global Banking & Markets Private, CSG - IRAF, Transportation Finance, Vice President - New York

Opportunity Overview

Capital Solutions Group Goldman Sachs operates at the fulcrum of one of the most important structural trends in finance: the convergence of public and private markets. We combine the #1 global advisory franchise, a leading origination business, and an investing platform that deploys capital across liquid and alternative asset classes.

Our Capital Solutions Group is a comprehensive suite of our financing, origination, structuring, and risk management solutions. The depth and breadth of our relationships, enriched by the velocity of our deal flow, provide clients unique insights to maximize value and unlock opportunity.

Our integrated structure is built to provide comprehensive, tailored solutions that propel both our issuing and investing clients forward.

YOUR IMPACT

Our Global Transportation Finance Group is a market-leading team that provides financial solutions to the world’s leading transportation companies across the aviation, shipping, container, rail, and trucking subsectors. This team specializes in structured debt, structured equity, credit finance, and complex asset-backed securitizations (ABS).

OUR IMPACT

The Structured Finance Group within the Investment Banking Division in New York is looking for a VP to join the team. The Structured Finance group works with clients to finance assets, businesses and risks within their overall business. Each structured finance desk offers specialized client coverage, product expertise, capital markets expertise, deal execution and dialogue with thought-leading investors. Transportation team's product suite includes securitizations (across aircraft, engines, ships, railcars, container boxes, etc.), EETC financings for airlines, principal financing in the form of warehouses and term loans, asset sales, e-notes, M&A and related financings as well as USPP, corporate bonds and term loan B issuances. Given the interaction with groups across the firm globally, Structured Finance provides exposure to a breadth of activities and deal types. These include securitizations, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, asset sales and secured lending. As aircraft and shipping are dollar denominated businesses, this is a team with a global remit.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the origination, design, and structural engineering of complex securitizations and asset-based financing transactions. Client coverage responsibilities to originate and source opportunities and execute while overseeing junior team.
• Structuring responsibilities include formulating customized capital structures that optimize leverage, amortization, and pricing for our global transportation clients.
• Command the end-to-end execution of live transactions. This includes leading due diligence, driving credit approval processes, and directing the structuring and drafting of key offering materials, investor presentations, and asset stratifications.
• Spearhead the negotiation of credit agreements, indentures, offering memorandums, and other transaction related legal documents in close coordination with internal and external legal counsel.
• Own the rating agency process by managing cash flow model reviews, presenting structuring methodologies, and securing optimal credit ratings. Drive investor marketing strategies, including preparing and leading deal and non-deal roadshows.
• 2+ years’ experience leading deal teams of analysts and associates.
• Serve as a hub of expertise, coordinating seamlessly with IBD Classic coverage, Global Markets, Credit Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to deliver the full capabilities.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years’ relevant work experience

• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written

• Solid work ethic, motivation level, and strong attention to detail

• Personal integrity, initiative and leadership qualities

• Capacity to interact and build relationships with a wide range of people and act as a point of contact

• Well-rounded academic background from a top tier institution

• Understanding of transaction cycles and the steps in the process

• Demonstrate maturity to work with all levels of professionals across the firm and external clients

• Possess good judgment to make quick and complex decisions

• Salary Range

• The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $250,000-$300,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

• Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

• We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

• Healthcare & Medical Insurance

• We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

• Holiday & Vacation Policies

• We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

• Financial Wellness & Retirement

• We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

• Health Services

• We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

• Fitness

• To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

• Child Care & Family Care

• We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

• Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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