Senior Associate, Structured Asset Finance Origination

Full job description
Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) is responsible for managing the Group’s relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, and provides a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services. The division also performs an important internal role for the Group by providing markets, lending and transaction banking execution capabilities to other CBA business units that allows them to capture opportunities with business customers.

IB&M/s purpose is to ‘build Australia’s future economy’ and our ambition is to be ‘Australia’s leading corporate and institutional banking franchise’.

Capital Structuring is made up of a number of customer centric product specialists who partner with relationship bankers to originate, structure, execute and monitor lending & leasing facilities. We provide the core end to end product and pricing infrastructure supported by a disciplined approach to governance that enables us to manage financial and non-financial portfolio risks. The team includes Credit Portfolio Management, Structured Asset Finance, Securitisation, Private Equity & Structured Finance, Global Lending Product & Transformation, and Line 1 Operational Risk & Control.

See yourself in our team

Structured Asset Finance (SAF) forms part of the Capital Structuring (CapS) team within IB&M and combines strong corporate finance and transaction structuring expertise to solve complex strategic client problems across industry sectors. SAF provides innovative & bespoke financial solutions for our client’s business-critical revenue generating mostly moveable assets; focusing on solutions supported by asset security or asset ownership. The key objectives of the SAF team strategy is to target large asset pools and capex in: (i) Energy transition assets at scale such as EV’s/ZEBs; (ii) significant government spending (iii) supporting asset service providers and aggregators in renewables, technology, logistics, medical equipment and agri; and (iv) large scale annual capex sectors such as aviation and mining.

The core purpose of the role is to:

Originate new SAF business opportunities
Proactively advise, structure, model, price and execute SAF product solutions tailored to the needs of clients across ecosystem in the Client Coverage teams;
Develop deal flow from clients across all ecosystems; and
Deliver SAF and other structured solutions that meet the business objectives of our clients and the Bank.
Do work that has significant impact to the business

You will be required to assist the Structured Asset Finance team to originate, structure and execute structured solutions across the IB&M client base.