Loans Transaction Management Specialist

Are you interested in transaction management and are passionate about loan documentation? Then you have found the right team!

As a Loans Transaction Management Specialist within the Credit Products Delivery team, you will serve as a middle office transaction management partner for clients of the Corporate & Investment Bank, Commercial Bank. Your role will involve providing expertise in the negotiation and review of facility documentation and managing end-to-end transactions for Loan products. You will work closely with JPMorgan's client coverage teams, external legal counsel, and facility agents.

Job responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class loan documentation execution for credit facilities and ancillary legal documentation, particularly for corporate clients, including oversight of the deal closing process

• Face Clients (or their counsel) in close partnership with Front Office and Credit to review and support the negotiation of legal documentation for financings, with a focus on bilateral and syndicated loan facilities

• Liaise with internal/external counsel in the review of facility documentation

• Draw on transactional expertise to suggest solutions for appropriate stakeholders (Bankers, Credit, Tax, Ops etc) as necessary, ensuring they are brought into the debate in a timely manner to reach a resolution

• Manage to the internal controls framework, reporting and escalation for transaction execution, including preparing and coordinating the approval of documentation deviations during negotiations

• Actively contribute to and drive wider team projects & initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced technical knowledge and understanding of loan documentation

• Excellent understanding of lending products and associated legal agreements (Investment Grade & Non-Investment Grade, Acquisition Finance)

• Solid understanding of investment grade and leveraged loans, transaction management, lending products more broadly, and banking processes

• Solid decision-making capabilities and the ability to identify problems and drive to a resolution

• Excellent coordination skills and a strong control mindset

• Demonstrated ability to manage relationships, both internally and externally

• Proven organization skills, and ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines, including strong prioritization skills

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact professionally and confidently with the Front Office and functional partners globally

• Lead by example, set high standards of performance for self and others

• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing business and technology environment

• Think strategically and tactically to design process improvement ideas with the flexibility to adjust to new innovations, regulations, and priorities

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior experience working with emerging markets borrowers

• Candidates from law firms and/or with in-house counsel/paralegal backgrounds

• Language skills welcomed