Senior Manager, Leveraged Finance

What You’ll Be Doing

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CIBC Leveraged Finance is a team of professionals and support staff that specialize in senior and subordinated cash‑flow lending to Canadian middle‑market businesses across diversified industries. The team’s mandate is three‑pronged: providing national coverage of private equity sponsors; leading financing of highly structured, event‑based transactions; and providing ongoing support to our existing client base. Our focus is on delivering creative financing solutions, value‑added ideas and industry‑leading quality service by providing the full suite of CIBC’s product offerings to clients.

As a Senior Manager, Leveraged Finance you will prepare and lead presentations of financing proposals to clients and prospective clients. For accepted credit proposals, you will prepare credit memos, lead negotiations, review legal documents and close transactions. You will also serve as the primary relationship manager on a portfolio of existing borrowing clients where you will be their first point of contact, building relationships with management teams and owners.

This position is located in the Vancouver office and primarily covers a portfolio of clients and evaluates new opportunities within Western Canada while also interacting with the wider team in Toronto and Montreal.

• Client First – Together with the team, you will lead discussions with private equity sponsors and client management to assess financing needs and deliver specialized lending solutions including acquisition financing, mezzanine financing, and enterprise value‑based lending. You will apply your understanding of capital structure to provide value‑added financing advice to clients.
• Relationship Building – Take a lead role in Western Canada private equity sponsor relationships and proactively develop new coverage opportunities within Western Canada. Develop strong relationships with internal teams, external clients and industry contacts to generate new referrals and business opportunities.
• Due Diligence – Perform comprehensive financial/non‑financial analysis and risk assessment of companies. Prepare financing proposals, structuring terms and conditions including security, covenants and pricing, to properly reflect and compensate CIBC for assessed risk. Prepare recommendations on credit opportunities to senior management. Prepare and negotiate security documentation for transactions.
• Portfolio Management – Serve as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of existing borrowing clients. Monitor account performance and industry trends. Maintain a proactive approach to continuous risk assessment.
• Collaboration – Work through partnership with and support from the direct team in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal to execute on these areas. You will play a key role in providing coaching and mentoring the junior members of the team, contributing to a high performance team culture. Demonstrate a long‑term commitment to learning and continuous improvement.
• Partner – Partner with the wider CIBC team to connect clients with opportunities and solutions throughout the bank.

You have a BBA or similar undergraduate degree. Other financial education is considered an asset (i.e. MBA, CA, CBV, CMA, CFA etc.) but is not necessary. You have at least 5 years of experience in a commercial credit and/or equity investment environment. You have experience with lending principles, procedures and practices, credit assessment and structuring and industry and competitive analysis. You have strong financial modeling, research and negotiation skills, including experience negotiating security documentation and terms with clients and internal stakeholders.

You have strong presentation skills. You have strong written and…