Head - Complex Transaction Support

Public Sector Resourcing; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined benefit pension

Public-sector benefits

Job summary

Homes England | National Housing Bank is seeking a Head – Complex Transaction Support to lead a CTS team and oversee distressed lending cases within the Debt portfolio. The role requires gravitas, negotiation and restructuring skills in a high-pressure public environment, reporting to the Assistant Director.

You will shape risk management, develop workout strategies, and collaborate with MHCLG/HMT and senior executives across multiple offices in a hybrid 50/50 setup. Closing date: 26 June 2026.

Qualifications

• Extensive technical capability in insolvency procedures and restructuring options.
• Understanding of insolvency law and administration, LPA receivership, and schemes of arrangement.
• Experience leading a team handling distressed lending.
• Leadership to run a high-output team under pressure.
• Experience managing complex lending positions to maximise delivery and minimise loss.
• Extensive Credit Risk experience across Real Estate sectors.
• Ability to present complex distressed lending problems to Senior Management and MHCLG/HMT.

Responsibilities

• Designing and leading identification of emerging risk within the mainstream portfolio.
• Designing and executing a work-out strategy for identified risk cases.
• Delivering restructuring strategies through Risk, Investment Committee, MHCLG and HMT when required.
• Maintaining CTS Watch List Process with monthly updates and risk reviews.
• Maintaining an effective database of impaired and written-down loans for accurate risk assessment.
• Advising senior management and board on best practice from banking sectors.

Skills

Insolvency & restructuring

Leadership

Credit risk analysis

Stakeholder management

Public sector experience

Job description

Head – Complex Transaction Support

Homes England | National Housing Bank

£81,443 - £93,055 | Location: Hybrid 50/50

Our new headquarters are based in Leeds, however, candidates also have the option to attend our offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Northstowe.

Homes England launched the National Housing Bank, a new government-backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England.

With £16bn in capital, it will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up.

The opportunity

The role holder will lead and manage a small team of Senior Managers within the Complex Transaction Support (CTS) team, overseeing a portfolio of distressed lending cases (including debt, equity, guarantees and equity investments) within the Bank’s wider Debt team. These cases are high-profile and have been transferred to the CTS team due to identified delivery, fiscal, or reputational risks.

The job holder will report directly to the Assistant Director, Complex Transaction Support, and will be required to exhibit gravitas, negotiation and restructuring skills both externally and internally in a high-pressure public environment. Complimentary requirements include an exceptional Credit & Risk and Organisational skill set.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining an effective system for identifying, analysing, and assessing emerging risk within the mainstream portfolio which is managed by the Portfolio Management team.
• Designing, implementing, and executing an agreed work out strategy for all identified Risk cases, by applying a wide range of restructuring options.
• Delivering elected restructuring strategies internally through: Risk, Executive Investment Committee, (and when required) the Risk teams within Ministry - Ministry for Housing, Communities, Local Government (MHCLG) and the HM Treasury (HMT).
• Maintaining, managing, and implementing the CTS designed Watch List Process through monthly updates to Risk and monthly management meeting with Portfolio Management and Risk, which are minuted and passed to the Chief Risk Officer to fulfil a robust and auditable review process.
• Maintenance of an effective database of all potential, current and historic impaired and written down loans, to provide an accurate and concise assessment of the position of the Debt Team Risk exposures.
• The job holder will be expected to introduce and embed best practice, disciplines, and processes from the Corporate and Commercial Banking sector into the Agency. This will include providing advisory engagement into Risk, the Senior Management within the Bank (including the CEO and Chairperson), the board, MHCLG and HMT.

Candidate profile

• The jobholder will be required to exhibit extensive technical capability in insolvency procedures and restructuring options.
• Proven understanding of insolvency law and the law relating to Administration, Law of Property Act Receivership, and other enforcement mechanisms (for example schemes of arrangement and sale of debt).
• Significant experience in successfully leading and managing a team of individuals who have worked with distressed lending positions.
• Leadership experience and credibility to run a high output team dealing with diverse risk problems in high pressure situations.
• Proven experience of managing complex lending positions to maximise the Agency delivery while minimising financial loss; by using exhibited analysis and problem-solving techniques to achieve the optimum outcome.
• Extensive Credit Risk experience across Real Estate sector, to establish development and counterparty risk.
• The ability to concisely present complex distressed lending problems with a decided work out strategy to Senior Management, Board members within the Bank , and MHCLG and HMT and in both written and verbal format.

Why join?

• Help build a new national investment institution
• Work on complex housing and regeneration transactions
• Deploy £16bn of government-backed capital
• Hybrid 50/50 working across multiple national locations
• Defined benefit pension and strong public-sector benefits

Closing date: 26th June, 2026

Right to Work in the UK is required.