The Saudi Investment BankHead of Syndications, Project & Structured Finance
Aug. 2012 - Jun. 2015Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaAs Head of department, I was required to manage a loan assets portfolio that covered a diversity of sectors including PetChem, infrastructure, power & water, mining, and real estate. I made recommendations to the bank's management on the basis of analysis of financial information gathered from public and private sources. This information was entered into financial models that had either been developed by me and my team or provided by the client's financial advisor, and the results were used to predict the future revenue and cost behavior of the proposed projects. I then developed sell/buy/hold strategies for my portfolio on the basis of the results of these models. As the department head, I was also expected to market with corporate entities to get new project finance clients for the bank, and to regularly monitor and evaluate the risk profile of the portfolio, based on which I made management presentations for the annual reviews of each company. In all of these activities, I was supported by a team of transactors and analysts.