Associate Director - Portfolio Management – Structured Finance | S3 | Corporate & Commercial Banking

Country: United Kingdom

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In this interesting, client-facing role, you'll be part of a close-knit team responsible for the close management of the risks associated with a dynamic portfolio of selected clients in the Structured Finance portfolio.

You’ll be a key member of our Portfolio Management Structured Finance team who support the monitoring and reviewing of Structured Finance customers within Corporate and Commercial Banking. You’ll have the opportunity to improve your knowledge and skill base within a structured finance environment, whilst maintaining client responsibility.

If you’ve performed a similar role previously, this could be the perfect opportunity to develop your career.

The difference you’ll make:

• Managing a dynamic, complex and high-risk portfolio of structured finance originated/executed transactions
• Monitoring any adverse trends emerging across your portfolio, ensuring a full understanding of any risks is maintained
• Providing a high level of service to identified and dynamic growth clients who are active in the structured finance arena across wide ranging sectors
• Progressing client requests via the preparation of credit submissions or modification papers and presenting to Credit Committees
• Delivering credit risk control and reporting, as well as analysing and monitoring management information, covenant compliance and sector information
• Working with origination teams to support existing clients with new lending requests

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Deep technical knowledge and experience of operating in the UK mid-market Leveraged Finance market in either an origination or portfolio management capacity
• Well-developed credit and relationship skills with the ability to undertake financial modelling and sensitivity analysis
• Excellent, demonstrable, stakeholder managment skills

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Excellent credit writing skills with the ability to present a fair and balanced view of the client risk
• Experience of managing and negotiating legal processes and documentation with lawyers
• High quality financial analysis, presentational, verbal, and written skills
• Experience lending to leveraged companies, including understanding of the in-depth financial analysis required for such deals

What else you need to know:

Our preferred location for this role is Birmingham, but we’ll also consider locating the role in Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion

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How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

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What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected] or call 0870 414 9080.