Analyst – Structured Finance

Job Description

CIB, Structured Finance Strategy & Business Development Analyst | Santander US

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Santander US, located in New York, NY. Santander is a global leader and innovator in financial services, undergoing a technology-driven transformation focused on bold thinking and customer-centricity. This role is crucial for supporting the Structured Finance business by providing strategic insights, business development support, and market intelligence to drive pipeline management and competitive positioning. It’s an opportunity for a driven professional to grow, learn, and contribute to significant change within a leading financial institution.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, New York, NY
• Pay: $90000–$125000 yearly
• Team: Corporate & Investment Banking, supporting Structured Finance
• Mission: This person supports the Structured Finance business by driving strategy, business development, market intelligence, and transaction analytics for lending solutions.
• Tech Stack: Infralogic, Dealogic, FactSet, Capital IQ, Bloomberg, AI tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Pipeline Management: Maintain the structured finance pipeline, prepare summaries for senior management, and support opportunity prioritization, client targeting, and sector activity monitoring.
• Market Intelligence: Track structured finance market activity, including pricing, terms, structures, competitors, and league tables, synthesizing key takeaways from various sources.
• Performance Analysis: Conduct P&L, balance sheet, distribution activity, and RWA/capital analysis and forecasting, delivering integrated insights to product teams and support areas.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain a forward-looking strategic plan across the business and product portfolios, defining levers to achieve growth and performance objectives.
• Presentation Building: Create polished presentation materials, capability decks, and internal readouts, ensuring accuracy, clear storylines, and executive-ready formatting.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, with working knowledge of structured finance and lending concepts such as capital structure, credit metrics, pricing/terms, and documentation mechanics.
• Experience: 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.
• Skills: Advanced Excel skills, strong PowerPoint skills, hands-on experience with Dealogic/Infralogic, FactSet and/or Capital IQ, and Bloomberg, and practical experience using AI tools to accelerate research and streamline workflows.
• Bonus: Exposure to structured finance subsectors (e.g., infrastructure, renewables, transportation), experience with internal banking processes like credit approval support and diligence tracking, and proficiency in Power Query / Power Pivot, basic VBA, or other productivity enhancements.