Associate / Associate Director - OCM Debt Advisory
We are hiring an experienced professional to join our growing Debt Advisory team, based in London but with a European remit. You will be instrumental in rolling out our capabilities across Europe.
Role Overview
Savills Debt Advisory team is highly experienced in providing debt advice to our clients on new origination, refinancing and restructuring situations, across the UK and Europe and covering all real estate sectors.
The specialist advice of the team delivers our clients a host of benefits in a real estate debt market that has an increasingly large and complex lender pool.
We are looking to hire an experienced professional to join Savills growing Debt Advisory business, based in London (West End) but with a European remit. The new team member will be instrumental in rolling out our capabilities across Europe.
The primary objective of the role is to provide debt advisory services to Savills clients across all sectors and European geographies, as well as to other Savills teams as they interact with the debt markets in the course of their transactional mandates. The workload and the environment will be varied, fast paced, exciting and rewarding. Having a passion for delivering advice and outputs of the highest standard is a must.
The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of experience, either in real estate debt from a financial services background or from within a real estate firm.
Headquartered in London, we work closely with specialist Savills colleagues across our unmatched network of offices in the UK and Europe, as well as colleagues in over 700 global offices.
Key Responsibilities
• Interfacing with Savills European offices to provide a value added service to clients
• Pitching to clients to secure new debt advisory assignments
• Running debt advisory assignments
• Liaising and negotiating with clients and lenders
• Collaborating with capital markets teams across Savills on spec work and client mandates
• Working on Investment Memorandums and other client and market-facing collateral
• Participating in divisional and sector working group meetings and follow ups
Key Skills
• Self-starting and ambitious
• Positive under pressure
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
• Excellent organisational and work prioritisation skills, managing multiple projects through to delivery
• Ability to use initiative to troubleshoot/ offer alternative solutions
• Interest in and desire to learn more about the real estate sector
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to build relationships
• Capable of taking a lead role in pitches, discussions and negotiations with clients and lenders
• Strong analytical skills in either finance, real estate or both
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly PowerPoint and Excel
• Strong attention to detail
• European languages and experience in European countries is advantageous
Team Overview
This is a growing team, which combines first-class debt advice with Savills market-leading equity financing capabilities and unmatched real estate expertise. The team sits within the market-leading, 140 person strong Operational Capital Markets (OCM) division.
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- Business area
- Commercial Advisory
- Role
- Debt Advisory
- Locations
- Margaret Street, London
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role is office based
- Salary
- Competitive
Margaret Street, London
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
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Associate / Associate Director - OCM Debt Advisory
We are hiring an experienced professional to join our growing Debt Advisory team, based in London but with a European remit. You will be instrumental in rolling out our capabilities across Europe.
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