Associate Director, Institutional Coverage (12 month FTC)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Asset Management client coverage team as an Associate Director. Our team is in high growth, so they couldn't be a better time to join us and make a difference! You'll have the opportunity to gain insight on a diverse growth sector and build the franchise by bringing knowledge from across the Group to deliver the full breadth of products to our clients. You'll lead an established portfolio of high-profile businesses, and work in partnership with the Relationship Director to build new relationships. This role is fixed term contract until 1st December 2025. Your accountabilities will include:

• Take responsibility for oversight of portfolio maintenance and growth ambitions, taking ownership on Lead Generation, including Marketing.
• Research and establish strategy to build connections with new clients or deepen relationship with existing ones.
• Support the development of the portfolio. This will include pitching new lines of business, recommending, and implementing the most appropriate solution.
• Support projects, initiatives, and transactions by applying expertise and knowledge of Group offering, product structures, and processes to optimize customer value.
• Support the Associates on the annual renewal process for the portfolio, liaising appropriately with business partners, credit and risk.
• Challenge processes and find new ways of working to help craft a more efficient, client focussed team.
• Collaborate closely with product partners and servicing team to respond to client queries in a timely manner, raising where appropriate in a time-pressured environment.
• Ensure legal and other documentation is aligned with credit sanction and policy to minimise risk.
  
  Previous experience leading client relationships.
• A good understanding of the Asset Management space and Investment Banking.
• A great teammate who can take the broader view for the benefit of those they work with.
• Ability to communicate effectively across different audiences.
• Curiosity in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks.
  
  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
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you. 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.