IDFC FIRST Bank | Product Manager - Emerging Asset Financing

Responsibilities

• The team specializes in designing innovative lending solutions and creating bespoke structures to meet complex client needs.
• The role would support the Product Lead in designing and executing structured finance transactions across sectors.
• The role involves assisting in structuring innovative & bespoke lending solutions for the Bank’s clients.
• 'The role involves managing the entire lifecycle of an exposure, from initial structuring and deal negotiation to obtaining credit approvals, executing transactions, and ongoing monitoring throughout the life of the deal.
• Work with Product Lead and Coverage RMs to pitch for bespoke lending solutions to corporate clients seeking such solutions.
• Prepare client presentations and pitch materials for structured finance solutions.
• Assist in analyzing client requirements to support development of tailored financing structures.
• Preparation of credit appraisal memos / models / term sheets etc and negotiation of transaction-related documentation etc.
• Monitor ongoing deals, track covenants, and highlight emerging risks.
• Support development of new structured lending products for corporate clients.
• Assist in preparing client presentations and pitch materials.
• Timely and high-quality execution of transactions.

Requirements

• Exposure to project finance, financial modelling and credit appraisal processes.
• Experience in NBFC / AIFs / Credit Funds / Real Estate Fund will be an advantage.

IDFC FIRST Bank Limited

IDFC FIRST Bank took its present form on 18 December 2018, when IDFC Bank and Capital First merged. IDFC Bank had been launched in November 2015 through a demerger from IDFC Limited, the infrastructure finance company set up in 1997, while Capital First brought a retail lending business built around consumers and small entrepreneurs. IDFC Limited, the former holding company, was itself merged into the bank with effect from 1 October 2024, leaving a simpler structure with no holding company and no promoter. Listed on the NSE and BSE, the bank has its corporate office at Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai and its registered office in Chennai, and lends mainly to retail, rural and small-business customers.

Finance-side roles at the bank include credit managers for loans against property, rural branch lending and wholesale banking, trade finance operations staff, reconciliation and operational-risk work in wholesale banking, internal auditors (including gold-loan audit), due-diligence quality control and business finance analysis. Openings are spread over cities such as Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Lucknow. Many postings accept a graduate or postgraduate in any discipline, often a B.Com, BMS or BBI, while several credit and finance roles ask for a CA or an MBA in Finance, or list CA, CFA or ICWA as preferred.

• Industry: Banking: retail, rural and MSME lending, deposits, wealth management, and wholesale and trade banking
• Headquarters: Mumbai, India (corporate office at Bandra-Kurla Complex); registered office in Chennai
• In India: IDFC FIRST Bank Limited, listed on the NSE and BSE, with its corporate office in Mumbai, its registered office in Chennai and branches across India