Associate – Financing and Advisory (Mining)Societe GeneraleAssociate – Financing and Advisory (Mining)Building together, with our clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions.Why Societe GeneraleSociete Generale, one of Europe's leading financial services groups and a major player in the economy for over 150 years, supports 30 million clients every day with 133,000 staff in 61 countries. Our Group draws on our European roots to develop our activities internationally. Our unique geographic positioning enables us to connect Europe and Africa with major global financial centres in Asia and the Americas. The Group combines financial strength, proven expertise in innovation and a sustainable growth strategy with the objective of creating value for all our stakeholders. We seek to be a trusted partner in the projects of those building tomorrow's world today. Societe Generale has been present in Australia since 1981. Located in Sydney, we currently provide financing and advisory, as well as global markets solutions.Leveraging the strength of our client coverage and leadership in structured finance including energy, metals & mining, infrastructure finance, together with product and service offerings such as debt capital markets, asset-backed products and commercial real estate finance, Societe Generale supports our Australian wholesale clients in their financing and advisory needs and our global clients who wish to access the Australian market with global banking services. Societe Generale also provides global markets solutions by offering futures execution and clearing, equity derivatives sales and structured product distribution.About the roleResponsibilitiesMajor Accountabilities/Principal Responsibilities: We are currently recruiting for an Associate to join our Financing & Advisory Group based in Sydney, Australia to support the origination and execution activities across a broad range of structured finance transactions in particular within the Mining, Metals and related industries sectors. The candidate will also work with other business lines within Financing & Advisory such as Infrastructure, Digital, Energy and Real Estate. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build close relationships with the teams onshore and within the organization more broadly on a regional and global basis. This is an exciting opportunity within a fast-paced, results focused, global organization that values diversity.Primary responsibilities include:Preparing, customizing, optimizing and maintaining the financial model supporting advisory mandates, including creating and running financial scenarios and sensitivitiesInterrogating the financial model for financing mandates including creating and running of sensitivities and checking integrityAbility to review and, where appropriate, supervise financial modelling tasks undertaken by junior staff, and completing more complex modelling tasks where required.Staying abreast of developments across sectors, in particular Mining & Metals finance, as well as current transactions and opportunities in the marketProviding day to day transaction support including structuring, pricing, preparing of credit applications, undertaking detailed financial analyses and due diligence analyses and assisting the deal team leader to provide best-in-class lending and advisory services to the client baseRespecting all relevant compliance practices and other internal requirements in relation to the execution of advisory & lending transactionsManaging internal processes relating to the arranging and advisory business (e.g. updating databases, credit application writing, completing relevant internal system-based processes)Identifying potential marketing opportunities and preparing pitch material (including reviewing feasibility studies, detailed analysis of financial models, etc.)Starting to establish a network of contacts at key clients and prospective clientsSupervision / development of junior team members including appropriate delegation and review of certain tasks suitable to the skills and experience of those junior team members whilst maintaining a high quality of overall team executionWhat you'll be responsible forDevelopment of Finance StrategyRecommend improvements to optimize and improve financial performance and development of strategic long-term plansOperational and Financial ReportingAnalyze financial data to prepare timely reports to support business decisionsFinancial ModelingAnalyze data to create financial models that support planning and projectionsSkills you'll needCollaborationWorks with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goalsNumerical problem solvingWorks with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problemsCritical thinkingIdentifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight
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