Associate Director

Lloyds Bank plc; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading banking group as an Associate Director in Hedge Funds in London, where you'll build strategic client relationships and enhance business development efforts. You'll collaborate with various teams to identify client needs and drive profitability, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. This role offers a dynamic hybrid working environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Shown experience in leading and developing client relationships within financial services.
• Confirmed understanding of banking products and services.
• Proven ability to work optimally with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a designated portfolio of client relationships.
• Work closely with product and delivery partners to promote bank offerings.
• Identify and originate client opportunities, structuring deal proposals.

Skills

Client Relationship Expertise

Commercial Savvy

Collaborative Approach

Analytical & Critical Thinking

Business Development Skills

Regulatory Awareness

Job description

Job Title: Associate Director – Hedge Fund

Location: London

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our London office.

About This Opportunity:

We currently have a phenomenal opportunity for an Associate Director to join our Hedge fund team based in London.

In this role as Associate Director, you'll help build a strategic partnership with the client to support our growth strategies improve group revenues and profitability. You'll support the building and management of the business relationships in order to identify clients needs in conjunction with Group credit and profitability requirements.

You'll be an ambassador for change, an early adopter of tools crafted to improve the client and colleague experience and support your wider team to work towards their goals.

What you’ll be doing:

• Client Relationship Management: Support the Director and Head of Hedge Funds in leading a designated portfolio of client relationships, with opportunities to lead on client accounts where appropriate.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product and delivery partners across the Bank to promote the full suite of the Bank’s offerings in alignment with clients’ strategic objectives.
• Opportunity Origination & Execution: Identify and originate client opportunities with appropriate support, implementing tailored solutions. Take the lead in structuring client deal proposals under guidance.
• Client-Centred Solutions: Explore innovative ways to meet client needs and see opportunities to generate additional income, recommending and implementing suitable solutions.
• Business Development: Support and cultivate new business leads and introductions, contributing to the Group’s overall growth and success.
• Compliance & Governance: Maintain a strong understanding of Group policies and procedures, ensuring full adherence to compliance and regulatory expectations.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need:

• Client Relationship Expertise: Shown experience in leading and developing client relationships within financial services, with exposure to Non-Bank Financial Institutions, ideally hedge funds or private credit.
• Commercial Savvy: Confirmed understanding of banking products and services, with the validated ability to identify client needs to deliver tailored financial solutions that drive revenue growth.
• Collaborative Approach: Proven ability to work optimally with cross-functional teams, including product, risk, and delivery partners, to achieve shared goals.
• Analytical & Critical Thinking: Ability to assess sophisticated client requirements, structure proposals, and contribute to strategic decision-making with a solutions-oriented approach.
• Business Development Skills: Track record of generating new business opportunities and building a pipeline through networking, referrals, and proactive engagement.
• Regulatory Awareness: Solid understanding of compliance, risk management, and regulatory frameworks within the banking sector, ensuring adherence to internal policies and external standards.

About working for us:

Our ambition is to be the top tier UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.

About the company

For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper.We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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