Position No: 115
Position Title: Banker
Department: Energy and Infrastructure (ENI)
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Type of position: Professional
Closing Date for applications: 16 March 2015
Appointment Type: Three-year fixed term appointment (internal candidates holding open-ended appointments will retain their open-ended appointment status)
Organizational context and impact of results
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Director ENI, the Banker contributes to the operations in private and public sectors related to the Department’s activities, ensuring high quality of work, accurate, timely and properly recorded/documented services delivery, including achievement of budget qualitative and quantitative targets. S/he performs specific tasks aimed to support development and implementation of operations at various stages of operation cycle within the ENI’s area of responsibilities and assists in the implementation of the Departmental Work Plan.
The key results have an impact on the achievement of operational targets, ensuring the advancement of the Bank in line with its mission and mandate.
Functions
- Contributes to the ENI Department’s activities in originating, screening, structuring and negotiating loan transactions in both private and public energy and infrastructure sectors; assists with financial, technical, legal and environmental due diligence and prepares project documentation; provides input to the preparation of business plans, budget and internal policies and procedures; monitors department’s existing operations; assists with the development and analysis of data, tables, reports, documents.
- Maintains dialogue with internal and external stakeholders: communicates with managed clients within portfolio and follows up with the clients’/project developments and proposes to the Director/team interventions in case of necessity; builds and maintains relationships with internal (other units of the Bank) and external stakeholders in relation to project execution; promotes contacts with business communities and officials.
- Actively participates in marketing and business development, identifies market trends in the energy and infrastructure sectors in the countries of operations, carries out market research for prospective clients, participates in various events.
Competencies:
- Professionalism: maintains a level of expertise and professional knowledge commensurate with the respective position and job description,
- Results Orientation: demonstrates ability for achieving results against an internal or external standard of excellence.
- Communication and interaction with impact: Transfers efficiently and effectively information and messages, wields effective tactics for persuasion.
- Client/stakeholder orientation – ensures appropriate service of high standard to internal and/or external customers and develops constructive and sustainable business/ customer relationships.
- Teamwork: effectively cooperates with others aiming at the achievement of team objectives.
- Cultural sensitivity/Diversity: supports and promotes an environment that holds opportunities for all, regardless of race, gender, culture and age.
- Integrity: maintains standards of objectivity, independence and discretion. Behaves ethically and in consistency with institutional core values.
- Accountability: exhibits a strong sense of responsibility for one’s work and resulting consequences.
- Innovation and change: is open to and applies novel ideas and thinking to improve processes, methods, systems or services. Accepts and adapts to changes.
- Critical thinking: clarifies goals, examines assumptions, evaluates evidence, accomplishes actions, and assesses conclusions.
Minimum requirements for the position
- Education: First-level University degree in Finance, Economics, or Business Administration.
- Experience: at least 5 years of relevant working experience gained in: i) corporate/project finance/structured finance group/department of a commercial or development bank or a major international investor/merchant; or ii) an international corporation or institution having BSTDB sector specialty.
- Computer skills: Strong computer skills and good knowledge of relevant software applications.
- Ability to conduct research and analysis on difficult, but well defined tasks, to articulate issues and to recommend solutions.
- Ability to effectively provide professional support to senior staff.
- Excellent command of English.
Desirable education/qualifications/experience/knowledge/skills:
- Postgraduate degree in Finance, Economics, or Business Administration.
- Experience in an international development financial institution.
- Experience in the region of the BSTDB’s operations.
- Good Knowledge of a member country language.
It is the BSTDB’s policy to offer equal employment opportunities to qualified candidates regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.
Application Procedure
In order for your application for one or more of the above vacancies to be considered valid, please:
1. Complete the BSTDB Application Form in full:
- Provide an answer to each question.
- If a question is not applicable to you, please complete N/A.
- No additional documents (such as CV’s) will be considered.
2. Send the completed BSTDB Application Form as an attachment to: recruit@bstdb.org. Pleaseinclude in the subject line of the e-mail only the Reference Number of the vacancy you are applying for and your full name.
Example: 119 John Smith
The above-described application procedure should be followed separately for each vacancy.
In case of application for more than one vacancy, you will receive an automatic receipt confirmationonly to the application which was sent first. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
