Senior Associate
Pakistan
Senior Associate – Syndications & Debt Capital Markets (May 2010 - Jan 2015)• Responsible for executing transactions by effectively managing relationships across corporate and financial institutions, and undertaking deal specific activities to achieve successful financial closure. • Conducted research and analysis on targeted companies and transactions pertaining to various sectors (cement, sugar, power, infrastructure, agriculture and telecom), and evaluated business plan and projections for overall transaction analysis, along with analysis of project based and balance sheet based financial models. • Engaged in credit evaluation of proposals pertaining to annual renewal, enhancement and new relationships in compliance with Bank’s internal policy and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Prudential Regulations. In addition, ensured compliance with pre & post approval formalities and monitoring of facilities extended, to ensure positive utilization and timely debt servicing. • Responsible for developing term sheets, information briefs/memorandums, for internal approvals and circulation to market transactions. • Appraised Short Term and Long Term finance requirements of clientele in my portfolio and justified proposals for enhancement in credit lines available to the clients. • Managing short term working capital facilities for the customers. • Coordinated with clients, auditors, branches, legal counsels and syndicate members on regular basis along with maintaining correspondence with State Bank & Financial Institutions on executed deals. This includes legal documentation, preparation of different reports and initiation of credit approvals for all the assigned transactions. • Responsible for monitoring of Financial Covenants, preparation of Agency functions where the bank held the agent’s role and keeping track of all the payments, drawdowns, repayments, expiries and maturities of the ongoing transactions