Associate Director - I&PF

Do you want to join an award winning and market leading team in the Infrastructure & Project Finance space? If so, we currently have a great opportunity for an Associate Director to join our London based team. You'll take the lead in complex project finance deals across multiple infrastructure sectors and play a crucial role in the deal team, initiating new transactions and building relationships with clients (Corporate clients, Financial sponsors, Advisors) and the lending community. What you'll be doing:

• Origination of I&PF debt and hedging transactions that support the core Lloyds Bank infrastructure franchise, using (i) the Bank's balance sheet including loan syndications, (2) our Scottish Widows' balance sheet (part of Lloyds Banking Group), or 3) the capital markets via private placement and public bond transactions.
• Excellence in execution of deals ensuring alignment with product partners (syndication, bonds, private placements, hedging, agency, transaction banking/deposits.
• Research future opportunities.
• Establish relationships with Lloyds Bank's client and the Advisor community in order to enhance the Bank and Group's reputation and propose procurement of new business in line with agreed business plans.
• Prepare credit/investment committee applications, internal reports and marketing material.
• Manage the documentation and due diligence process for transactions.
Why Lloyds Banking Group? From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.


• Extensive knowledge of the infrastructure sector, with a project finance angle.
• Evidence of relevant execution experience with a proven track record of consistent performance.
• Skill in building relationships with clients to generate new business, preferably with a pre-existing network
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and across different audiences
• Ability to deal with sophisticated financial models (strong Excel skills are required); project finance modelling skills are a plus.
  
  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.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 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
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey. This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing 'significant harm' to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA's Financial Services Register This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook The Person ("P") performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1) P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2) those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm. If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.