Contract Role: Wholesale Lending/Loan IQ Transformation Migration - Vice President
Location: London or Manchester 2-3 days onsite
Contract Duration: 6 months initially (likelihood of extension)
Contract Start: 12 January 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for an engagement with one of our premiere Investment banking clients.
About Wholesale Lending
Wholesale Lending is part of COO Operations, and is made up of Syndicated Lending, Portfolio Management and Corporate Lending, covering Credit Analysis, Financial Monitoring & Control, Primary & Secondary Loan Settlement, Lending Fulfilment, and post drawdown management & Collateral
The role
We’re seeking an experienced Loan IQ/Wholesale Lending Transformation Migration Lead to work with the technology teams, business stakeholders, operations users, controls team, Migration Technology Team, UAT test manager and all other stakeholders to plan, manage & execute the system/process changes including business analysis, current vs future gap analysis, requirements documentation, process/procedure updates and test scripts creation and execution for Wholesale Lending migration to Loan IQ platform.
Key Responsibilities
* Run a Migration Pod and drive execution on data migration, risk & control, training and business process alignment for both short term (interim) changes and for long term (strategic) changes.
* Work in tandem with the Wholesale Lending Servicing and Facility Capture teams, along with the technology teams, to ensure the data in the current lending platform (ACBS) is compatible and ready to migrate to the future Lending platform (Loan IQ.)
* Take the lead on all test migrations, dry run activities, and migration go live.
* Manage the recognition of pre and post migration data and identify the resolution for discrepancies.
* Proactively use the reconciliation to improve the data quality for future migrations.
* Liaise with all stakeholders including tech/ops partners and drive the data clean-up activities as well as process optimisation/automation opportunities.
* Ensure review and sign off of project artefacts are completed, signed off and stored.
* Liaise with Stakeholders and be an integral part of the go to team for systems, process & automation change in Wholesale Lending Operations, facilitating & giving recommendations on migration execution, sign off from stakeholders on various future state design decisions and Go/No Go decisions.
* Support systems implementation and execution into BAU and be on site in the business area to provide support, guidance & issues escalation – liaising with Technology & Business area’s involved.
* Liaising with Stakeholders and being an integral part of the go to team for strategic change in Wholesale Lending Operations
* Ensure continuous improvement is central to the delivery of Operational Readiness taking feedback from workstream leads and stakeholders and applying this to delivery plans.
* Communicate professionally, clearly and confidently to a global audience and support the creation of presentation materials in Transformation team and Project meetings.
* Extract and interpret data and turn into a presentable format for their own presentations and as part of the deliveries of other key stakeholders
* Co-manage the migration deliverables for the offshore team
Stakeholder Management and Leadership:
* Lead a migration pod ensuring that the scope is effectively managed and lead on the dry-run and actual migrations.
* Act as a contributor within other migration workstreams.
* Work with various stakeholders and tech partners to ensure change is implemented smoothly e.g. work with other Migration leads to gain buy-in to migration testing requirements, timelines, and testing delivery plans.
* Maintain awareness of business process change throughout the project execution phase.
* Provide regular updates to enable the tracking & reporting progress on/understanding the impact of systems & automation changes, migration testing requirements on those processes and areas of the Business affected by that change, e.g. agreeing with Business Owners any additional training or workarounds identified during migration testing.
Decision-making and Problem Solving:
* Work with other Pod leads and contributors to identify and communicate resolution for discrepancies identified in the migration
* Prepare with full engagement of stakeholders bespoke testing scenarios, scripts, frameworks, procedures, management Information & present –including as appropriate project documentation.
* To inform testing and process design strategy on key Projects & automation & ensure all deliverables are fully tested to appropriate level of business risk.
* Understand the impact of planned initiatives, deployment schedules & time lines on those processes and the business areas that use them – ensure all business scenarios are then integrated into all project documentation, procedures and testing scripts and User test / Live proved accordingly, securing Business, Controls & stakeholder Go/No Go sign off.
* Ensure that the business understands the impact of the change, the required testing regime, is able to accommodate and will derive the intended benefit of, planned changes.
Risk and Control Objective:
* Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Policies and Policy Standards.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have previous experience of rolling out strategic and tactical change across a large financial organisation, understand of testing framework delivery & have a good knowledge of Corporate and IB loan products and their attributes and should be familiar with key IT/ systems. An understanding of the migration framework delivery & have a knowledge of Corporate and IB loan products and their attributes and should be familiar with key IT/ systems.
* Must have wholesale lending operational experience
* Hands on experience of the ACBS application within Corporate and IB Lending Operations team
* Hands on experience with Finastra Fusion Loan IQ either from an operational capacity or through an implementation/upgrade project capacity in one or more of the following areas: Loan IQ configuration, business analysis, operations processes, loan servicing, syndicated lending
* Proven knowledge of Corporate and IB Lending processes and procedures
* Proven ability to quickly learn, understand and adapt to new systems and processes
* Experience at dealing with stakeholders at all levels
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Excellent presentation skills
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
* Project Management / Delivery experience
* An understanding of the key phases of Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
* Knowledge of JIRA, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel
* Experience at dealing with stakeholders at all levels
* Lending /Servicing knowledge across all debt products
* Prior experience in loan operational support, including term loans, revolver, delayed draw term loans
* Experience of using Agile project management would be preferred
* Knowledge & experience working closely with IT, Transformation & Change area.