Senior Manager, Structured Lending Operations

End Date
Thursday 01 February 2024
Salary Range
£78,634 - £92,510
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Job Description
JOB TITLE:Senior Manager, Structured Lending Operations
LOCATION: Edinburgh, Birmingham, London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in one of our office hubs
About this opportunity
The Structured Lending Operations (SLO) Senior Manager role covers both the Execution and Servicing of Lending for all Corporate & Institutional Banking clients including portfolios for LBCM Islands, North America and Lloyds Bank GmbH. In this role, you would be a senior point of contact for Coverage and Product areas, utilising your expertise and knowledge to collaborate and deliver exceptional lending outcomes for clients.
Are you looking for an exciting and important role where you can directly influence delivery of Lending growth which is pivotal to the CIB strategy? This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious leader who wants to contribute to the Group Strategy of Helping Britain Prosper every day!
About us
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you’ll need
The Senior Manager will be accountable for leading a specialist function of professionals:-

• We ensure effective and efficient set up, settlement and administration of CIB lending portfolios, including the management of facility set up, drawdown, fee calculation, invoicing and collection plus associated lifecycle events;
  
• We handle loan documentation set up through the single actor Lending Execution process;
  
• We co-ordinate and ensure the accuracy of financial information downstream into Group Finance ledgers;
  
• We mitigate operational, financial, market and regulatory risks encountered;
  
• We engage partners and encourage positive relationships with clients, market counterparts and internal functions;
  
• We identify and champion talent, providing opportunities and stretching colleagues to maximise their contribution and fulfil their potential;
  
• We maximise operational efficiency by driving operational excellence, continuous improvement and simplifying activities to improve both colleague and client experience;
  
• We shape and deliver plans that support the strategic direction for the business
  

Key Capabilities

• Leadership - Creates client centric strategy, sets direction for team and role models the Group Values to build a positive environment that allows colleagues to be at their best whilst delivering sustainable growth. Deputises for Head of Function when required.
  
• Service Delivery - Leads team in delivery of high quality, accurate, timely, fair and efficient settlement and service. Utilises data and management information to understand and positively influence key performance and risk areas.
  
• Product & Process - You should have expertise in global lending markets, associated products and the application of global benchmarks and/or risk free rates. Knowledge of systems, processes and accounting practices that form part of the Lending journey at LBG would be beneficial.
  
• Partner Engagement - Actively establishes relationships with internal and external partners, creating open and clear communications and being recognised as a respected partner.
  
• Risk & Control - Monitors risks pragmatically and takes action to ensure all aspects of regulatory, operational, financial, information security and IT risk are satisfied and mitigated in line with the Group Risk Framework, appetite and policies.
  
• Change / Continuous Improvement - Lead the team in identification, shaping and delivery of enhancements to processes, controls, and working practices to improve efficiency, client service and risk profile. Initiate, shape, champion and support delivery of strategic change.
  
• Environmental Awareness - Exercise excellent judgement in decision making by remaining aware of evolving business, market, economic, regulatory and political factors and take those into account along with client, colleague, conduct and partner considerations in business decisions.
  
• Colleagues - Engages colleagues through consistent actions delivered with integrity. Take ownership of coaching, performance management, talent management and succession planning to cultivate the colleague agenda across the wider business.
  

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’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
  
• Share schemes including free shares
  
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
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.