Position No: 29
Position Title: Senior Banker
Department: Financial Institutions 2 (FI2)
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 guidance and supervision of the Director, FI2, the Senior Banker is responsible for transactions in both private and public sectors related to financial sector, ensuring high quality of work, accurate, timely and properly recorded/documented service delivery, including achievement of budget qualitative and quantitative targets. He/she performs specific tasks aimed to support development and implementation of financial operations at various stages of the operation cycle within the Department’s area of responsibilities and is actively involved in the implementation of the Divisional/Departmental strategy and Work Plan.
The expected key impact of the work of the Senior Banker FI2 is to significantly contribute to the achievement of the Department’s and Banking Division’s business targets and to ensure a recognized advancing of the Bank’s developmental mission and mandate.
Functions
- Contributes to the FI2 activities: originates, screens, structures and negotiates loan/ equity/ guarantee transactions in both private and public sectors; identifies and screens investment proposals; carries out financial, technical, legal and environmental due diligence and prepares project documentation; supervises existing investments; proposes amendments to internal procedures to reflect new products; is up-to-date with the clients’ developments and proactively seeks interventions in case of necessity (i.e. preparation of amendments and waiver requests); controls reporting by the clients and compliance with legal terms and conditions.
- Develops the portfolio in the respective countries of direct responsibility;
- Develops and maintains relationships with relevant parties and authorities, including existing and potential clients;
- Actively participates in marketing and business development efforts with particular focus on countries of direct responsibility;
- Promotes the Bank’s activities through participation 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 8 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.
- Strong analytical and financial background.
- Successful track record of working through the project cycle; proven track record of transactions.
- Relevant experience in structuring credit, equity and guarantee transactions including legal documentation in both public and private sector projects.
- Computer skills: Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
- Advanced understanding of investment and financial analysis and their application in investment decisions and transaction structuring.
- Excellent command of English.
Desirable education/qualifications/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 language of the Bank’s member states.
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.
