Head of Credit - Structured Asset Finance / Energy and Infrastructure Finance

Head of Credit - Asset Finance

Structured Finance / Project Finance / Energy & Infrastructure Finance

c.£100,000 per annum plus car allowance, pension, healthcare and bonus

The client:

• A smaller, dynamic and ambitious bank with a strong presence in specialist business lending including asset finance and structured / wholesale finance solutions to the SME and corporate community.
• Keen to continue their growth agenda by building out a substantial presence and to compete in the Energy and Infrastructure funding sectors.

The role:

• Creating and deploying an effective credit risk strategy to enable new business growth in the energy and infrastructure financing sector.
• Personally assessing and underwriting new business applications to ensure growth whilst maintaining credit quality and minimising the potential for bad debt.
• Working closely with the Divisional Head to contribute to the commercial strategy - transactions will tend to be project finance in nature and from £1 million to £20 million in size.
• Contributing to the wider asset finance credit risk departmental performance by assisting the credit team in underwriting general asset finance applications.

The candidate:

• A proven credit risk professional with experience in structured asset finance, project finance, energy finance, infrastructure finance or wholesale finance.
• Ideally some experience of onshore wind, onshore solar, energy storage and EV charging and knowledgeable in the renewable and technology funding markets.
• Broad experience in the vendor, direct and intermediary / broker markets.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK with periodic travel to the company's offices in the North West and South East of England