Assistant Manager, Loans Agency

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**Overview**:
A facility agent acts as the primary point of contact between the transaction parties to a syndicated loan. Whilst appointed to co-ordinate the communication between clients, lenders and business partners, the Facility agent is also responsible for handling the flow of funds and providing on-going transaction support during the lifecycle of a deal.

In their role as facility agent (and/or security agent) the agency team are part of an agency platform and oversee a wide range of deals originating from various industry sectors including but not exclusive to, Diversified Corporates, Financial Institutions (predominately Insurance and Investment Funds), Transportation, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Acquisition Finance.

**Role**:
Working in a self-coordinating Client Loyalty Team (CLT) that promotes the ING One Agile Way of Working, you will become part of a small team dedicated to maximising their potential and providing outstanding client service. In a market where speed and flexibility are key, continuous improvement and being responsive to the needs of our clients is a must.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role**:

- Review of the facility documentation from an operability perspective to ensure that ING’s standards and the latest APLMA/LSTA templates are adhered to. Collaborate with the originating business and legal counsel in terms of comments raised, to ensure that such points are negotiated to a successful outcome.
- Identify and collate the information required to on-board a new deal whilst ensuring that all documentation is received on a timely basis. Liaise with legal counsel to ensure that relevant CPs are fulfilled and proactively manage the deal closing process, including funds flow.
- Co-ordinate loan closing and primary syndication from an agency perspective, ensuring that a collaborative relationship is achieved and maintained with the originating business, syndications and any other stakeholders.
- Deal set up and ongoing deal management in LoanIQ with reference to the facility agreement.
- Work with internal and external contacts to manage the non-operational aspects of a deal including amendments, waivers and consent and act as the main point of contact for all deal issue escalations, ensuring that all matters are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner.
- Proactively manage day to day run activities (drawdowns, rollovers, repayments, fees margin adjustments, covenants, secondary debt trades / transfers etc) whilst working with and overseeing the various offshore support teams to ensure that a high quality, client focused, and control conscious product is delivered.

**Experience/Knowledge**

Essential:

- 3 - 5 years Loan Agency experience in a comparable role with a full understanding of all aspects of the role of the Agent and the Syndicated Loan Market.
- Proven ability to read and interpret credit agreements.
- Working knowledge of LoanIQ.

Desirable:

- Exposure to Structured Finance i.e. Real Estate Finance, Acquisition Finance or Transportation and Infrastructure Finance.
- Security Agent experience.

**Personal Competencies**

Essential:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Outstanding client service.
- Result orientated with the ability to work under pressure and adapt quickly in an agile setting that imposes challenging deadlines.
- Disciplined with good organisational skills and attention to detail.
- A proven ability to perform well in a team but also operate independently and without constant supervision. To be proactive and have the ambition to take it on and make it happen is very important.

Desirable:

- Someone who is keen to challenge the status quo and is interested in continuous improvement and innovation.
- Awareness of agile / lean principles