Financial Sponsors Associate Director

As the Associate Director (AD), your role is critical in managing and coordinating relationships in the Infrastructure and Secondaries asset classes. You'll be a driven self-starter with unrelenting client focus and your motivation will help to shape and grow the business, whilst driving the strategy forward, reporting to the Director who is the Bank's lead for these asset classes.,

• Direct responsibility for maximising the economic relationship with the client portfolio in a "Client First" manner through origination of new business opportunities from the existing client base, as well as new relationships
• Identifying new opportunities that support the clients across Lloyds' products and propositions, including origination of fund financing solutions
• Supporting the ongoing development and implementation of clear asset class strategies for Infrastructure and Secondaries including collaborating with stakeholders to develop and deliver clear Client Account Plans
• Working with internal product partners to deliver the Bank's capabilities, as well as identifying new fund level financing opportunities and collaborating in their execution, including delivering investment committee papers inline with the asset class strategy
• Coach, mentor and develop the Associates
  
  Market/Sector/Product Specialist Experience - Direct relevant experience in private markets across coverage and/or investing, including fund finance, leveraged finance or equity, either funds or direct.
• Market/Sector/Product Specialist Knowledge - A strong practical understanding of private markets, investing strategies and financing requirements including credit risk in the fund finance market and the ability to analyse / interpret complex financial information of a highly sophisticated client set
• Building Relationships- An established ability to build and grow long term relationships through acquiring and cultivating deep connections with clients and internal stakeholders, A proven team player, as strong collaboration is required across the Bank to maximise results for clients and drive growth
• Risk Management & Control - Ability to identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks (credit & operational)
• Communication - Ability to communicate effectively across all media and audiences both internally and externally, within a banking/financial services background. Forthcoming in expressing ideas and opinions and contributing to discussions. Strong presentation skills are also key to success.
And Any Experience Of These Would Be Really Useful
• Working with Secondaries or Infrastructure funds would be preferable
• Existing relationships with clients in these asset classes
• Fund finance experience
  
  Lloyds Bank Financial Sponsors (FS) is a market-leading private markets finance franchise, which operates in a growing global market. Our team is responsible for co-ordinating the Bank's relationships with the world's leading private market fund managers, who operate across private equity, private credit, private infrastructure and private real estate asset classes., 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. Which is 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, please 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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more! 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.