Associate, Financial Sponsors

End Date Tuesday 02 May 2023 Salary Range £0 - £0
Agile Working Options Flexible / Variable Hours Job Description Summary . Job Description At Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) our vision is to be the best bank for our customers. By putting customers first, keeping banking simple and making a difference together, we're helping Britain prosper. Financial Sponsors is a cornerstone business unit within the broader Financial Institutions franchise, working with major private-markets clients headquartered in the UK and globally. Our team is a market-leading fund financing franchise. We work with the world’s leading Private Equity, Private Debt and Infrastructure managers who invest in real world trading businesses and projects. Our relationships are deeply embedded and produce high deal-flow and lending and associated risk management opportunities. As an associate in the team, you'll work closely with a designated >£20m income portfolio from day one, managing their relationship with Lloyds and working with them as a trusted partner. This will include working closely with clients and colleagues to originate, structure and execute products such as fund finance lending, hedging, capital markets issuance and transaction banking. We're looking for someone with excellent drive, initiative, creativity, and resilience to be a strong and committed advocate to your clients and the Financial Sponsors team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting the Associate Directors and Relationship Directors in managing a designated portfolio of customer relationships.
• Build and develop business leads and introductions in order to maximise business growth for the Group
• Review customer proposals to best meet Group and customer requirements and find opportunities to develop further income and economic profit, recommending and implementing the appropriate solutions
• Negotiate terms and conditions of credit facilities and services after consulting with all relevant parties and prepare proposals in order to seek approval for global credit exposure
• Prepare and present responses to Requests for Proposal for new and existing business, liaising with other specialist providers as appropriate.
• Ensure legal and other documentation is aligned with credit sanction, Bank and Regulatory policy in order to minimise risk
• Prepare and monitor business plans for the portfolio in order to meet customer profitability requirements and business objectives
• Undertake the annual renewal process for a designated customer base, liaising appropriately with the business partners, credit and risk
• Monitor utilisation of facilities, taking care of excesses within your discretion, reporting other excess situations as appropriate.
• Manage any changes to systems, processes and working practices to achieve operational improvement
• Review management information and provide reports for senior management to monitor and control risk

Crucial skills:

• Experience managing a portfolio of external client relationships
• Excellent risk management skills

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of interacting externally with high-calibre Private Markets clients such as Private Equity, Private Debt or Infrastructure funds.
• Risk analysis of lending and hedging products preferably in relation to fund level financing.

So what can we offer you in return? You'll be rewarded with excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity! As well as a competitive salary, you’ll receive:

• A Discretionary Performance Share Award
• Generous pension contribution
• 28 days leave plus bank holidays
• Private health cover
• Share Schemes

We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform crucial job functions. Sound like you? Apply today, we’d love to hear from you..! 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'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’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.