Description
What you’ll be doing
1. Conduct independent credit assessments for presentation to sanctioning officials to enable informed decisions to be made. This involves the analysis of company prepared information, market due diligence, and identifying key strengths and risks. Submissions include new to bank business, increased lending, variations from existing terms, restructures and annual credit reviews.
2. Liaise with originators, relationship managers, products partners, clients and where necessary shape structured credit proposals in order to maintain an acceptable balance of risk and reward.
3. Monitor and control credit exposures to identify increases to the risk profile, communicating with senior Risk colleagues and sanctioners as well as other interested parties as appropriate, and to maintain compliance with LBG policy and regulatory policy.
4. Undertake customer, sector and market research to ensure assessments have an external dimension and seek to apply sound judgement to ensure relevant material is included when evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of a lending proposal. This may include sensitivity analysis of internal/external cash flow models.
5. Exercise credit authority delegation, where applicable.
6. Maintain records to satisfy internal and external requirements, particularly relating to data quality and statutory reporting. You'll assess proposed transactions against Group Policy and oversight the deal origination team in the same respect.
We provide an encouraging learning environment, with an emphasis on teamwork and personal development. You'll work in a high profile and demanding environment committed to delivering core positive group values, inspiring others to embrace innovation and simplify ways of working across teams.
What you’ll need
7. A strong background in credit risk and financial analysis and, ideally, experience of cashflow based lending.
8. Well-developed communication and influencing skills and are confident to challenge the status quo whilst being comfortable making and explaining your recommendations.
9. Ability to balance conflicting demands whilst delivering to tight timescales.
10. Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new challenges.
11. Demonstrate sound judgement, strong decision-making skills, good attention to detail and the ability to collaborate.
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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
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.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
12. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
13. An annual performance-related bonus
14. Share schemes including free shares
15. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
16. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
17. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
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 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.