Asset Finance Manager

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Asset Finance Manager to manage complex transactions and documentation. This role involves driving quality standards and collaborating with various business teams. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in asset finance, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to engage with senior stakeholders. Join us to further your career in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in the asset finance market and financial services transactions.
• Ability to engage with senior business members and build relationships.
• Strong attention to detail and strategic thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality standards within the Asset Finance portfolio.
• Lead execution of complex transactions and develop products.
• Ensure robust execution processes with lessons learned discussions.

Skills

Negotiation and structuring transactions

Knowledge of legal policies and regulatory obligations

Organizing and executing multi-stakeholder work

Problem-solving and intelligent risk-taking

Job description

Overview

If you're an experienced deal leader, this is an opportunity to take on an important and strategic role in Asset Finance. As an Asset Finance Manager, you'll be joining this mid office function alongside other senior team members to manage the execution of complex transactions, documentation, and growth propositions. You'll be building your career profile, as you join a team and collaborate across our business, in an environment where team working is encouraged and recognised.

What you'll do

In this role, you'll be contributing to leadership, strategy and growth transformation as a member of the Product and Transaction Management (PTM) team. You'll be developing a deep sector, business and market understanding at both macro and micro level. Through the course of your work, you'll be:

• Driving quality standards within the Asset Finance portfolio, through documentation standards and adherence to business process and policy
• Leading the execution of complex transactions, new template documentation, and the development of products and propositions, in consultation with the frontline business, internal stakeholders and external legal counsel
• Making sure that our execution process is robust and effective, and issuing lessons learned papers for discussion with the business and internal stakeholders

We're looking for a strategic thinker with broad financial services transactional experience, including in a regulatory and commercial environment. In particular, significant experience in the asset finance market would be beneficial.

• Experience of negotiating and structuring financial services transactions, preferably asset finance
• Knowledge of relevant legal policies, regulatory and statutory obligations and risk management
• The ability to organise and execute work involving multiple internal stakeholders
• A keen eye for detail and the ability to see beyond it, and consider the strategic position
• Confidence to engage with senior members of the business and build strong working relationships
• The ability to problem solve and apply intelligent risk taking
• A good understanding of the different functions that make up a financial services business, and their respective roles and responsibilities
• The proven ability to work as a member of a team and provide support to less experienced team members