Director - Leveraged & Infrastructure Finance Syndicate

We currently have an excellent opportunity for a Director to join our Leveraged & Infrastructure Finance Syndicate team based in London. You'll work as a product specialist, helping to originate, price, structure and execute loan and bond capital markets transactions for our non-investment grade clients across leveraged finance (SDF) and infrastructure and project finance (I&PF). Your accountabilities will include:

• Assist SDF and I&PF origination teams with pitching and winning capital markets mandates.
• Deliver internal approvals for underwriting risk through the preparation of memos and presentation to relevant internal committees (loans and bonds including bridging facilities where relevant).
• Provide pricing for both senior and junior sub-investment grade debt instruments with reference to prevailing market conditions including, comparable analysis and secondary market trading; opine on terms (including legal documentation) to ensure that transactions are structured appropriately to clear market.
• Prepare syndication and market related materials for pitches and RfP's with our partners in SDF and I&PF.
• Own the syndication/ distribution of leveraged, infrastructure and project finance debt (loans and bonds) for sponsor-owned and corporate, sub-investment grade clients.
• Research and analyse market data to support internal and external client interaction and underwriting decisions.
• Build and manage relationships with colleagues from different departments (SDF, I&PF, Credit, Sales, CAM, CIDT, Coverage) and external customers (investor clients).
• Take lead role in training and development of junior team members.
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. What we need from you?
• Expert in timely and accurate pricing of sub-investment grade loans and bonds for corporate and sponsor backed clients.
• Deep credit, market and investor analysis skills.
• Detailed knowledge of Bloomberg and Excel.
• Strong investor relationships.
• Demonstrated experience in originating, structuring, pricing, and completing sub-investment grade loan and bond capital markets transactions.
  
  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 candidate 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.