CIB, Structured Finance Strategy & Business Development Analyst

The Role

The Difference You Make:

Santander Corporate & Investment Banking is seeking an Analyst to support the Structured Finance business with a focus on strategy, business development support, market intelligence, and transaction analytics.

Responsibilities

• Pipeline & BD support: Maintain structured finance pipeline, prepare summaries for senior management, and support opportunity prioritization, client targeting, and sector activity monitoring.
• Market & competitor intelligence: Track structured finance market activity (pricing/terms, structures, competitors, league tables, relevant comparables) using Infralogic and other sources; synthesize key takeaways.
• Business Performance: P&L, balance sheet, distribution activity, and RWA/capital analysis and forecasting, partnering closely with product teams and support areas to deliver integrated analysis and actionable insights.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain forward-looking strategic plan across the business and product portfolios, delivering rigorous analysis and clearly defined strategic levers to achieve growth and performance objectives.
• Presentation materials: Build polished presentation materials, capability decks, and internal readouts; ensure accuracy, clean storylines, and executive-ready formatting.
• Process improvement: Improve recurring reporting and content production through templates, automation, and the thoughtful use of AI tools.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in structured finance, project/infrastructure finance, leveraged/structured lending, credit, capital markets analytics, or a closely related banking role; or 2+ years of experience in a business development, strategy or finance role at an investment bank.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong PowerPoint skills.
• Working knowledge of structured finance and lending concepts (capital structure, credit metrics, pricing/terms, documentation mechanics at a high level).
• Hands-on experience with: Dealogic/Infralogic, FactSet and/or Capital IQ, and Bloomberg.
• Practical experience using AI tools to accelerate research, summarize information, and streamline workflows.

Qualifications

• No Certifications listed for this job.

Desired Skills

• Exposure to structured finance subsectors (e.g., infrastructure, renewables, transportation, digital infrastructure, fund finance, asset-based/structured lending).
• Experience with internal banking processes (credit approval support, diligence tracking, coordination across risk/credit, legal, syndications/capital markets partners).
• Power Query / Power Pivot, basic VBA, or other productivity enhancements.
• Established work history or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.
• Experience in Microsoft Office products.

Benefits

Keeping your personal wellbeing in mind, we offer comprehensive benefits to our people. From health coverage and PTO to retirement planning, here's how we take care of you.

Risk Culture

We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

EEO Statement

At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce. We actively encourage everyone to apply. Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Working Conditions

Frequent minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing, and walking is required for this role. Depending on location, occasional moving and lifting light equipment and/or furniture may be required.

Employer Rights

This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate your employment at any time for any reason.

What To Do Next

If this sounds like a role you are interested in, then please apply.