In investment banking, a structurer [1] [2] [3] is the finance professional responsible for designing structured products. Their solution will typically deliver a bespoke hedge, "yield enhancement", or other feature, as appropriate to the client's needs, and must inhere relevant regulatory and accounting considerations; see Structured product § Product design and manufacture.
The role is usually quantitative, straddling that of sales and trading and front-office quantitative analyst. The structurer's main analytic task is to determine how the pay rules in question will distribute cash flows for a deal; to do so, they will typically build computer models to simulate these subsequent payments, thereby also estimating how collateral payments affect the cash flows.
The above is preliminary to deal settlement; thereafter it will be in the hands of the Bond administration to apply the rules as described in the deal legal documents.
- ^ David Rothnie (2015). What it's really like to work as a structurer in an investment bank, efinancialcareers.com
- ^ Michael Mackenzie (2007). The rapid rise of the ‘structurer’, ft.com
- ^ Joris Luyendijk (2012). Interview: Head of Structuring equity-derivatives, theguardian.com