Associate Director, CME

Closing Date: 15 November 2026

Salary Range: $139,000.00 - $166,783.00

Worker Type:

Permanent

Corporate Finance NY is responsible for all financing activity in Corporate & Institutional Bank (C&IB) within the NY Branch. We manage the balance sheet for C&IB NY, while providing financing solutions for our clients across the Specialized Finance platform, with a focus on non-recourse lending to renewable (i.e. solar, wind, battery), data center, infrastructure (ports & toll road) projects. Our CME team partners with Client Coverage and Product Specialist teams to drive business growth and efficiently delivering an excellent experience for clients.

As an Associate Director in Alternative Assets NY, you will be a key senior team member who will manage a select pool of project finance sector clients and associated transactions, including providing pre-deal support, credit structuring and insights, end-to-end transaction execution and portfolio & risk management.

You will play a fundamental role in expertly managing these responsibilities with key internal and external stakeholders with the objective of appropriately managing the Bank’s risk/reward and enabling NAB to maintain a strong market position with key clients.

Essential capabilities

• Strong leadership skills.
• Credit writing/presentation skills.
• Financial Modelling/ Financial analysis.
• Ability to review and negotiate key loan documentation.
• Complex loan structuring experience (project finance, a plus).
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong decision making capability and ability manage multiple workstreams across a dynamic team at the same time.
• Taking a lead role in development of the above capabilities in junior team members (i.e. Analysts to Senior Associates).

• Other capabilities
• Desire to learn / curious.
• Excel skills (advanced).
• Customer Focused.

Experience

• Minimum of 5-7+ years Corporate Finance or related experience depending on role. Experience in project finance data center and renewables sectors, ideal.
• Well-developed financial modelling, risk assessment and credit writing skills.
• Strong understanding of facility documentation, deal structuring and negotiations.

Key Decisions

• Ability to balance time between big picture and day-to-day activities.
• Knows when to act independently, when to delegate and when to escalate issues.
• Act as key deal lead for new to bank transactions and across back-book of loans and market positions for your funds sector transactions.
• Take industry, market trends/ insights and ESG considerations into account when structuring transactions, assessing credit risks, and making decisions.

Key Accountabilities

• Responsible for managing the ongoing monitoring of the risk profile and compliance requirements of a select client portfolio, ensuring risk profile of portfolio is reflective of deal performance, and portfolio hygiene is a good standard.
• Take a lead role in transaction execution through the preparation of credit submissions, financial modelling, reviewing due diligence, negotiating legal documentation and making recommendations to CME NY leadership and other senior stakeholders.
• Manage & negotiate client requests, including Refinancings, Consents, Amendments & Waivers.
• Stakeholder management, both internal and external.
• Provide guidance / coaching to junior team members.
• Help with internal reporting requests and ongoing projects within CME, under the direction of CME NY leadership.
• Partner with Client Coverage and Product Team in achieving Sector Revenue, RoE, Operating Expense goals through supporting portfolio growth initiatives, managing low RoE relationships and growing non-lending revenues

Key Stakeholder Groups

• External Customers.
• Client Coverage and Product Specialists.
• Trade Finance Team
• Credit Risk
• Legal (External & Internal)
• Lending Operations
• CDD Team
• CME NY Leadership
  

Key Performance Indicators

• Effective portfolio management, risk management and hygiene.
• Valued contribution to transaction execution and credit process as a senior deal team member.
• Effective response of client requests, including Amendments, Waivers, Consents, etc.
• Contribution to key strategic initiatives.
• Strong time management and organizational skills, consistently meeting deadlines with a high quality work output.
  

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