Head of Corporate & Financial Services Syndicate, Structured Finance & Syndicate

LLoyds Banking Group
End Date
Monday 19 June 2023

Salary Range
£0 – £0

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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working

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Job Description

At Lloyds Banking Group 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.

Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is an origination and coverage business operating across the UK and North America and is responsible for the overall management of businesses whose annual turnover exceeds £100m.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for Head of Corporate & Financial Services Syndicate to join our team. You’ll be responsible for all coordination, underwriting and best efforts mandates in relation to Corporate and FS loan transactions, working in close collaboration with relevant sector teams. This is a role that matters as you’ll shape, drive and embed the medium-term distribution strategy for Corporate and FS transactions as part of the broader Syndicate & Sales team strategy.

You’ll provide leadership, direction and support to a team of Syndicate specialists ensuring the Corporate and FS, and broader Syndicate & Sales budget is delivered and income generated through ensuring customer & investor needs are met.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage, coach and lead the Corporate and FS Loan Syndicate team to deliver objectives
• Lead on client pitches to win coordination, underwriting and best efforts mandates. Lead successful syndication/sell down of any underwritten financings
• 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.
• Manage the development and delivery of budget plans for Corporate and FS Loan Syndicate.
• Proactively engage in portfolio reviews and driving origination activity
• Support the team in managing strategic client relationships, increasing share of mind, and driving revenue opportunities.
• Manage relationships with the sector teams and other internal partners including the wider Syndicate Teams, Loan Sales, LBCM, Risk and Client Products.
• Represent Lloyds on transactions and at various industry or market related events.
• In conjunction with other partners, develop and deliver a distribution strategy for Corporate and FS sector assets which will include identifying additional distribution channels and potentially new product opportunities.
• Takes ownership for implementing the customer needs strategy.
• Will sit as a rotating member of the Lloyds Bank Underwriting Committee.

You’ll need to have the following skills and experience:

• Strong and established relationships with a broad range of borrowers, advisors, banks and investors
• Expert in the Corporate and FS syndicated loan product and structures
• Outstanding understanding of credit and financial analysis and their application in transaction structuring
• Proven track record of leading transactions from origination through to execution and of delivering successful syndication strategies
• Knowledge and experience of other debt financing and risk management products (e.g. bonds, USPPs, derivatives)

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
• 30 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 !

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 significant harm 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 checks

As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA s Financial Services Register

This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook

The Person ( P ) 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 re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.