Director Corporate Banking | Power, Utilities, Renewables

Director, Corporate Banking | Power, Utilities & Renewables | Focus on European Origination

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Sector: Corporate & Investment Banking

Seniority: Director

Compensation : Above-market base and uncapped discretionary bonus

The Opportunity

An international banking group is seeking an experienced Director of Corporate Banking, Power, Utilities & Renewables to join its European business in Dublin. This is a senior, commercially focused role for an established corporate banking professional with strong sector expertise and a track record of originating and developing client relationships across the European power, utilities and renewable energy markets.

The successful candidate will play a key role in expanding the bank’s European franchise, building relationships with major corporates, infrastructure investors, financial sponsors and strategic stakeholders. Working across a broad range of financing and capital markets solutions, the Director will lead origination efforts, structure complex transactions and deliver tailored financial solutions to clients operating across the energy transition and wider utilities sector.

Professional fluency in an additional European language, alongside English, is essential to support client engagement and business development across European markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Origination & Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities across the European power, utilities and renewables sectors, developing a strong pipeline of prospective clients and financing mandates.
• Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain senior-level relationships with corporate clients, regulated utilities, independent power producers, renewable energy developers, infrastructure funds, pension funds, insurance companies and private equity investors.
• Financing Solutions: Lead the structuring and execution of tailored corporate lending, acquisition finance, project-related financing and other credit solutions to meet clients’ strategic and funding requirements.
• Capital Markets & Risk Management: Coordinate the delivery of public and private debt capital markets solutions, alongside interest rate and foreign exchange hedging products, working closely with internal product and execution teams.
• European Market Development: Drive the growth of the bank’s European power and utilities portfolio, identifying opportunities across established and emerging markets and leveraging international sector expertise.
• Sector Coverage: Develop a detailed understanding of industry trends, regulatory developments, energy transition investment and infrastructure funding requirements to identify opportunities and provide relevant client insights.
• Credit & Risk Management: Oversee credit analysis, transaction structuring and risk assessment, ensuring proposed facilities meet the bank’s risk appetite, lending policies and regulatory requirements.
• Ad-hoc travel to London and across Europe may be neccessary

Candidate Profile

• Significant experience in corporate banking, with a strong track record in relationship management, business development and transaction origination.
• Demonstrable expertise in the power, utilities, renewable energy or wider energy infrastructure sectors.
• Experience originating across relevant industries in Europe
• An established network of senior corporate clients, energy sector stakeholders, infrastructure investors or financial sponsors across European markets.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to identify, develop and convert new business opportunities into revenue-generating relationships.
• Experience managing complex credit processes, assessing risk and coordinating multidisciplinary teams through transaction execution.
• Fluency in English and an additional European language is essential
• A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to operate effectively in a growth-oriented, international banking environment.

The Opportunity to Make an Impact

This position offers the opportunity to take a leading role in the development of a European corporate banking franchise within a strategically important sector. The Director will combine relationship-led origination with sophisticated financing capabilities, working with major market participants across the power, utilities and renewables landscape while contributing to the bank’s broader European growth ambitions.