Business Development Director - New Business | Structured Property Finance

United Trust Bank Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in structured property finance seeks a dynamic Business Development Director. This hybrid role requires a proven track record in generating new business within the property finance sector, focusing on relationship-driven sales and effective credit structuring. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and a robust network in London and the Southeast.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years in business development within property finance.
• Strong credit skills and real estate experience.
• Interest in property financing trends.

Responsibilities

• Generate and protect profits by securing new property finance business.
• Manage a portfolio of introducers and customers.
• Oversee transactions from approval to completion.

Skills

Relationship Management

Credit Analysis

Sales

Negotiation

Financial Analysis

Compliance Knowledge

Education

Proven track record in business development

Job description

Business Development Director - New Business | Structured Property Finance

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This is a hybrid role working 3 days in the office (City of London location) and 2 days working from home.

Role Purpose:

UTB’s Structured Property Finance division is a fast growth business, empowered to quickly provide bespoke multi-million pound commercial and residential property finance solutions for a wide range of uses including bridging, investment, portfolio restructuring, refinancing, and capital release. Our proposition as a specialist lender, is based around the quality of our people, and their ability to deliver flexible structured funding solutions leveraging the banks credit and execution teams to deliver quickly and efficiently. We have a reputation for backing our customers, being quick to adapt to change and striving to be flexible, reliable and supporting our customers through the ups and downs of the economic cycle.

Structured Property Finance is non-regulated. We don’t limit the nature of the properties we’re willing to lend on and assess each proposal on its merits. We can provide funding secured against single and multi-unit residential properties, HMOs, commercial and mixed use properties, offices, land, hotels and mixed portfolios. Whilst average deal sizes are around £4m, we are looking to target lending opportunities from £1m to £30m.

We are looking to hire a dynamic and proven Business Development Director who will generate and protect profits by developing and transacting new property finance business from customers and introducers based in London & Southeast, ensuring that risks are mitigated by the efficient credit structuring and assessment, and ongoing relationship oversight management in conjunction with the support of the SPF Relationship Management team.

The successful candidate will need to be relationship driven with a broad introducer network and customer relationships. They must have strong credit skills and proven track record in bridging and investment lending as well broader real estate experience.

You will need to demonstrate a good understanding of technical skills such as sales, communication and negotiation skills, credit stewardship, and debt structuring.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the banks credit policy, lending appetite, pricing frameworks, and proactively identify and action sales opportunities in order to meet business growth objectives.
• Manage and develop a portfolio of business introducers and customers.
• Analyse opportunities, critically evaluate, prepare and submit applications for new proposals to Credit Committee, ensuring appropriate commentary and analysis to aid decision.
• Proactively manage all transactions from Credit Approval through to completion supported by the Relationship Management team.
• Achievement of origination, growth, and margin targets and adherence to the Bank’s standards in respect of operational and regulatory risk.
• Post-drawdown/in-life - work with the Relationship Management team to effectively manage and develop the relationship from both a credit stewardship and customer support perspective.
• Maintain delivery of a high quality service to customers as required.
• Ensure that KYC procedures including the requirements for in-life reviews in accordance with the AML framework on all customer connections are adhered too.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with key external and internal business partners to maximise potential growth opportunities, and promotion of UTB to the market.
• Build knowledge and understanding of relevant markets and customers in order to anticipate and meet their needs.
• Monitor market developments and competitor activity.
• Provide input into SPF sales and business strategy
• Provide input to Bank policy including lending guidelines, product development and overall risk management

Key Measures and Indicators of Success:

• Able to generate >£50m new business annually
• Build and maintain a portfolio of introducers and customers
• Mix of new originations across residential/commercial and bridging/investment lending
• Portfolio blended margin v risk weighting
• Ensure all credit papers are produced with high level of accuracy and compliant with UTB/SPF policies and procedures

Skills and Experience sought:

• Proven 3 to 5 year track record in business development with a bank or non bank lender operating in the complex bridging/property investment markets
• Demonstrated ability to originate deals in the £1m-£30m specialist lending market
• A positive disposition and determination to succeed and prosper
• Interest in and deep knowledge of property finance – resi/commercial
• Strong credit analysis and innovative structuring skills
• Financial analysis skills in support of pricing and accounts analysis
• Strong relationship management skills
• Sound knowledge of compliance and regulatory/AML requirements
• Proven banking knowledge and lending skills
• Resilience
• Team player

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you will be asked to complete an equality questionnaire on a voluntary basis and any data we collect will be treated confidentially and used for evaluation purposes. This will be for a period of 6 months or longer with your permission. This helps us understand our applicants so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Banking

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