Job Description

End Date Thursday 16 May 2024Salary Range \xc2\xa30 - \xc2\xa30Flexible Working Options Job Share Summary .JOB TITLE: Head of Leveraged Finance & Project Finance Syndicate (Structured Finance & Syndicate)
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full TimeAbout this opportunityWe have an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to join our Leverage Finance & Project Finance team. You\'ll be accountable for coordination, underwriting and best efforts distribution activity for Lloyds Bank\'s Leveraged Finance and Project Finance globally.You\'ll provide leadership, direction, and support to a team of Syndicate specialists ensuring the Leveraged & Project Finance and broader Syndicate & Sales budgets are delivered.Your accountabilities will include:

• Lead and coach the Leverage Finance & Project Finance Syndicate Team to deliver objectives.
• Partner Origination & Coverage teams on client pitches to win coordination, underwriting and best efforts mandates. Support Product & Sector teams in executing transactions. Lead successful syndication/sell down of any underwritten financings or coordination mandates.
• Support Origination teams in structuring and completing Bridges \xe2\x80\x93 including assessing deliverability of take out.
• Partner with Loan Sales and Credit Sales to engage market participants \xe2\x80\x93 to maintain and grow distribution channels, to enable successful underwriting and coordination strategies.
• Manage market risk of underwritten transactions, provides input into the development of compliance policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.
• Lead the development and delivery of budget plans.
• Proactively engage in portfolio reviews and driving origination activity.
• Support Strategic Debt Finance and Infrastructure & Project Finance Origination teams in managing strategic sponsor and corporate client relationships, increasing share of mind, and driving revenue opportunities.
• Be a great partner with the sector teams and other internal partners including the wider Syndicate Teams, Loan Sales, LBCM, Risk and Client Products.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?If you think all banks are the same, you\xe2\x80\x99d be wrong. We\xe2\x80\x99re an innovative, fast-changing business that\xe2\x80\x99s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that\xe2\x80\x99s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.What we need from you?

• Senior UK syndicate role experience in either Leveraged Loans, Project Finance and High Yield Bonds \xe2\x80\x93 track record in both asset classes an advantage. Appetite and energy to develop deep capability in new asset classes. US and EU experience a benefit as we seek to grow our franchises in these geographies.
• Strong relationships and credibility with a broad range of borrowers (sponsors & corporates); advisors and peer institutions
• Able to evidence deep relationships with market participants across banks and institutional investor firms
• Technical expertise in Leveraged Loan, High Yield Bond and Project Finance products and structures. Experienced in underwrites, bridges, coordination roles and other distribution strategies. Track record of successful market risk distribution \xe2\x80\x93 across all asset classes an advantage.
• Outstanding understanding of credit and financial analysis and their application in transaction structuring

About working for us!Our focus is to ensure we\'re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it\xe2\x80\x99s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We\xe2\x80\x99re disability confident. So, if you\xe2\x80\x99d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you\xe2\x80\x99re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We\xe2\x80\x99d love to hear from you.This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing \xe2\x80\x98significant harm\xe2\x80\x99 to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checksAs a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA\xe2\x80\x99s Financial Services RegisterThis role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA HandbookThe Person (\xe2\x80\x9cP\xe2\x80\x9d) performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1) P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2) those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm.This role has been identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.At Lloyds Banking Group, we\'re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you\'ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you\'ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.We keep your data safe. So, we\'ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We\'ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.We\'re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we\xe2\x80\x99re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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