Associate Director, Large Corporate Lending

Purpose of the role

To manage debt relationships with high-value corporate clients and potential clients. Provide support to the bank's senior management team in setting strategic direction and managing debt structuring risk across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with account managers to structure, recommend and fully implement relevant debt products and services to existing and potential clients.
• Manage debt structuring, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, and oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Oversee relationship management of debt structuring stakeholders, identifying relevant stakeholders and maintaining the quality of external third party services.
• Maintain key stakeholder relationships within target companies to understand their needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Manage debt structuring risk by identifying potential risks, developing mitigation strategies, and aligning with the bank's debt structuring and compliance functions.
• Monitor the financial performance of each transaction and the wider debt structuring department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
• Conduct thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes, thereby identifying market opportunities.

Expectations (Assistant Vice President level)

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate Leadership Behaviours: Listen, Energise, Align, and Develop others, or, as an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured work.
• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures to support control and governance.
• Own risk management and strengthen controls related to the work performed.
• Collaborate across areas to keep pace with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, including sensitive or difficult content, to appropriate audiences.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge and Drive.

What you will be doing

• Support Structuring Directors/Vice Presidents and Large and Mid Corporate Relationship Directors in the origination, structuring and execution of UK debt finance deals in a dynamic and competitive marketplace.
• Consider past and predicted business performance, sector dynamics, macroeconomic and credit risk factors to provide high quality credit analysis and papers for financing requests of typically >£10m.
• Produce financial analysis, financial modelling and suitable sensitivity analysis to support business opportunities.
• Create pitch materials for clients to support the debt origination effort.

Skills and Experience

• Proven credit analysis experience and structuring skills.
• Proactive ability to analyse and interpret financial statements and research internal and external market data sources.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment often under tight timelines.
• Team player, yet capable of working independently.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills, including experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of the end to end lending journey in corporate banking.
• Awareness of different sources of corporate funding and macro economic factors affecting debt markets.

Desirable/Preferred Qualifications

• Higher education degree or suitable professional qualification (e.g. ACCA, AMCT, CFA).
• Lending experience within a financial institution.

Location and Travel

This role is based in Manchester; applications from Leeds will also be considered.

Assessment

Applicants may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success, such as risk and controls, business skills and interpersonal skills, as well as job specific technical skills.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Barclays is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.