Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

Equity Bank Limited (The "Bank”) is incorporated, registered under the Kenyan Companies Act Cap 486 and domiciled in Kenya. The address of the Bank’s registered office is 9th Floor, Equity Centre, P.O. Box 75104 - 00200 Nairobi. The Bank is licensed under the Kenya Banking Act (Chapter 488), and continues to offer retail banking, microfinance and relat...

Responsibilities or duties

Deliver a strong multi‑country pipeline of syndicated loans, leverage finance, structured credit, and bond transactions across sovereign, FIG and corporate segments.

Lead end‑to‑end execution of complex financing transactions, including origination, structuring, documentation, syndication, distribution, and settlement.

Produce transaction term sheets, pricing frameworks, financial models, IMs, investor presentations, and distribution strategies.

Ensure flawless execution of CP/CS processes, agency setup, security perfection, legal due diligence, and documentation adherence to LMA/LSTA standards.

Build and maintain deep institutional investor networks (DFIs, ECAs, banks, asset managers, private credit).

Provide comprehensive market intelligence, sector insights, and risk recommendations to senior leadership.

Drive RAROC aligned structuring, capital optimization, and balance sheet allocation for large transactions.

Maintain governance compliance, ensuring all mandates align with Group policies, risk appetite, regulatory requirements, and treasury strategy (ARRP – Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan).

Build capability within the structuring, origination, and distribution teams while ensuring a high‑performance culture.

Deliver quarterly execution reviews, revenue reports, pipeline updates, and distribution performance dashboards.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Behavioral Framework:

• Strong understanding of Treasury policies, controls, ethics, and regulatory expectations.
• Clear, persuasive communicator with excellent presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Highly effective working across diverse teams, multiple countries, and varied regulatory environments.
• Provides clear direction, exercises sound judgement, and makes timely, well‑informed decisions.
• Ethical leader who inspires, mentors, and builds a high‑performance, client‑centric culture.
• Consistently focused on delivering value to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Action‑oriented, resilient under pressure, and dependable in high‑stakes environments.

Technical Competencies:

• Advanced structuring expertise across senior, mezzanine, unitranche, bridge‑to‑bond, credit‑enhanced, and complex financing solutions.
• Strong command of LMA/LSTA documentation, intercreditor agreements, security structures, sovereign considerations, and pari passu frameworks.
• Deep understanding of rating‑agency methodologies and investor disclosure standards (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch).
• Strong ESG financing capability across green, social, sustainability, and KPI‑linked structures.
• Proven end‑to‑end leadership across origination, structuring, syndication, and distribution.
• Deep expertise in credit, market, liquidity, legal, and operational risk drivers.
• Extensive networks across African and emerging‑market investors (DFIs, ECAs, banks, private credit, asset managers).
• Strong capability in covenants, security waterfalls, investor requirements, and distribution strategies.
• Mastery of financial markets, pricing, modelling, valuation, and macro‑economic fundamentals.
• Strong leadership, people development, regulatory navigation, entrepreneurial mindset, and disciplined execution under pressure.

Experience needed

Minimum of 12–18 years of experience in capital markets, syndication lending, or leveraged finance, including at least 7 years in senior leadership, with a strong, demonstrable pan‑African execution track record.

Academic qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Economics, Business, or Engineering.
• Master’s degree in Law is an added advantage.
• MBA preferred for strategic and managerial depth.
• Professional certifications such as CFA or ACCA are an added advantage

• Deliver a strong multi‑country pipeline of syndicated loans, leverage finance, structured credit, and bond transactions across sovereign, FIG and corporate segments.
• Lead end‑to‑end execution of complex financing transactions, including origination, structuring, documentation, syndication, distribution, and settlement.
• Produce transaction term sheets, pricing frameworks, financial models, IMs, investor presentations, and distribution strategies.
• Ensure flawless execution of CP/CS processes, agency setup, security perfection, legal due diligence, and documentation adherence to LMA/LSTA standards.
• Build and maintain deep institutional investor networks (DFIs, ECAs, banks, asset managers, private credit).
• Provide comprehensive market intelligence, sector insights, and risk recommendations to senior leadership.
• Drive RAROC aligned structuring, capital optimization, and balance sheet allocation for large transactions.
• Maintain governance compliance, ensuring all mandates align with Group policies, risk appetite, regulatory requirements, and treasury strategy (ARRP – Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan).
• Build capability within the structuring, origination, and distribution teams while ensuring a high‑performance culture.
• Deliver quarterly execution reviews, revenue reports, pipeline updates, and distribution performance dashboards.

• Strong understanding of Treasury policies, controls, ethics, and regulatory expectations.
• Clear, persuasive communicator with excellent presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Highly effective working across diverse teams, multiple countries, and varied regulatory environments.
• Provides clear direction, exercises sound judgement, and makes timely, well‑informed decisions.
• Ethical leader who inspires, mentors, and builds a high‑performance, client‑centric culture.
• Consistently focused on delivering value to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Action‑oriented, resilient under pressure, and dependable in high‑stakes environments.
• Advanced structuring expertise across senior, mezzanine, unitranche, bridge‑to‑bond, credit‑enhanced, and complex financing solutions.
• Strong command of LMA/LSTA documentation, intercreditor agreements, security structures, sovereign considerations, and pari passu frameworks.
• Deep understanding of rating‑agency methodologies and investor disclosure standards (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch).
• Strong ESG financing capability across green, social, sustainability, and KPI‑linked structures.
• Proven end‑to‑end leadership across origination, structuring, syndication, and distribution.
• Deep expertise in credit, market, liquidity, legal, and operational risk drivers.
• Extensive networks across African and emerging‑market investors (DFIs, ECAs, banks, private credit, asset managers).
• Strong capability in covenants, security waterfalls, investor requirements, and distribution strategies.
• Mastery of financial markets, pricing, modelling, valuation, and macro‑economic fundamentals.
• Strong leadership, people development, regulatory navigation, entrepreneurial mindset, and disciplined execution under pressure.

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Economics, Business, or Engineering.
• Master’s degree in Law is an added advantage.
• MBA preferred for strategic and managerial depth.
• Professional certifications such as CFA or ACCA are an added advantage