Transaction Manager – Corporate Sector Lending – Industrials

Accelerate your career at the very heart of ING Wholesale Banking! Join the leading Wholesale Bank in the Netherlands and gain a deep understanding of ING’s client base and our lending products, while acquiring the core skills to become a successful and all-round banking professional. Are you up for the challenge?

Work environment

ING is a global bank with a strong European footprint. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. With 38 million customers and almost 60,000 employees, our priority is to give our customers a superior experience and access to our sector expertise and global network.

Corporate Sector Lending (CSL) Netherlands is at the heart of ING’s Wholesale Banking division in The Netherlands. As a market leader, we are a strategic partner for our clients, which are amongst the largest Dutch multinationals. The CSL team is responsible for the co-origination, structuring and execution of bilateral/syndicated credit facilities, ranging from strategic events (acquisition finance and/or bridge loans) to general corporate financings (capex, working capital) and daily banking needs (cash management, trade financing). CSL employs 38 FTE’s split across three teams: Industrials, Retail & Services and International Clients.

The Industrials team focuses on clients that are active in a variety of capital-intensive sectors such as construction, automotive, manufacturing, chemicals and heavy industries. The team is expanding and will start covering corporate clients in sectors like Energy, Transport & Logistics, Food & Agri and Telecom, Media, Technology & Healthcare (TMT&H).

We are looking for an ambitious professional who is eager to join our dynamic and client facing CSL Industrials team. You will be working within a team of 10 lending professionals who will support your development with active coaching and learning-on-the-job.

You will have the unique opportunity to actively participate in transactions and be involved in strategic dialogues with CEO’s, CFO’s and Treasury teams of the clients and learn from it.

Your role and responsibilities

• Perform (financial) analyses on clients, sectors, and peers
• Prepare and write credit applications and pricing of transactions
• Preparation of financial models and contribute to client pitch books
• Develop and apply in-depth sector/product knowledge to build a strong relationship with our clients
• (Support the) co-origination, structuring and execution of bilateral and syndicated senior debt transactions
• Monitor client performance and other portfolio management tasks
• (Support in) drafting and negotiation of loan documentation
• Liaise with colleagues in Client Coverage, Transaction Services, Sector Teams, Legal, Risk and other stakeholders in the Deal Teams to ensure superior client experience

You are

• A person with excellent analytical skills, with an eye for detail and a ‘can-do’ attitude.
• An enthusiastic person with high level of self-motivation willing and eager to further develop his/her core lending and banking skills
• Strongly interested in assessing business models. identifying credit risks and deal structuring including loan documentation
• Able to work under pressure and prioritise tasks
• An strong communicator and team player, able to efficiently co-ordinate a multiple stakeholder environment
• A person with client focused mindset able to understand and cater for client needs
• A person with high-level of integrity. You live by the ING Orange code – display honesty, prudence, and responsibility

You need

• Academic master’s degree
• Relevant working experience within the financial sector, for example in lending, coverage, risk or financial advisory roles
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Knowledge of or affinity with financial modelling
• Commercial drive and strong interest in financial services
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English and preferably also in Dutch

We offer

• Excellent career opportunity for a talented individual to gain experience in a transactional environment and to further grow his/her lending and structuring skills
• CSL has an outstanding reputation within ING to grow talent. We have a proven track-record as a starting point for an (international) career within ING.
• Exposure to high profile transactions and client relationships
• Opportunity to develop your own network within ING
• The possibility to grow your job and personal skills through trainings and courses, talent management programs and (international) Short Term Assignments.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Rewards & benefits 

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here. 

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hour workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

About ING

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!

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