Vice president, Structuring Lending

Barclays UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Vice President in Structured Lending to manage debt relationships and provide strategic direction. The role involves assessing credit risks, conducting financial analysis, and collaborating with senior management to optimize debt structuring across the organization. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills, experience in financial products, and the aptitude to cultivate long-term client relationships while driving significant business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial analysis and credit risk analysis essential.
• Good knowledge of banking legislation preferred.
• Lending experience within a financial institution is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage debt relationships with high-value corporate clients.
• Produce financial analysis and pitch materials for clients.
• Monitor financial performance of transactions and department efficiency.

Skills

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

Communication

Analytical skills

Planning and organization

Interpersonal skills

Education

Higher education degree or suitable professional qualification (e.g., ACCA, AMCT, CFA)

Job description

Join us as a Vice President, Structured Lending - Large Corporate Relationship Directors and product partners in the origination, structuring, and execution of UK mid-large market debt finance deals in a dynamic and competitive marketplace.

You will consider past and predicted business performance, sector, market, and peer group dynamics, macroeconomic and credit risk factors to provide high-quality credit analysis/credit papers for financing requests of >£10m. You will also produce financial analysis, financial modelling, and suitable sensitivity analysis to support business opportunities and create pitch materials for clients to support the debt origination effort.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Problem solving and strategic thinking
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentation skills
• Analytical and numerical skills; experience in analysis of business, market, and sector performance and credit risk analysis
• Planning and organisation
• Awareness of different sources of corporate funding and macro-economic factors affecting debt markets
• Strong interpersonal skills

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Good knowledge of Standards, Policies, and Procedures
• Awareness of Legislation affecting the Banking Industry
• Higher education degree or suitable professional qualification (e.g., ACCA, AMCT, CFA)
• Lending experience within a financial institution

This role is based in Birmingham.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To manage debt relationships with high-value corporate clients and potential clients. Provide support to the bank's senior management team in setting strategic direction and managing debt structuring risk across the organization.

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with account managers to structure, recommend, and fully implement relevant debt products and services to existing and potential clients.
• Management of debt structuring, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of debt structuring stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Management of debt structuring risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s debt structuring and compliance functions.
• Monitoring the financial performance of each transaction completed as well as the wider debt structuring department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
• Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counseling employees on performance, and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long-term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energize and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For individual contributors, they will be subject matter experts within their discipline and guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, and identify the need for inclusion of other specializations to complete assignments. They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization’s functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other work areas for business support to stay aligned with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.