Managing Director, Infrastructure & Project Finance

We currently have a great opportunity for a seasoned project finance specialist and recognised leader in the sector to join our Infrastructure and Project Finance (I&PF) leadership team, reporting directly into the Global Head of I&PF. As a Managing Director, you'll play a leading role in developing and driving forward the I&PF strategy whilst creating significant realisable origination opportunities from a proven network of advisors, corporates and sponsors in the market from C-Suite interaction. Primary responsibility includes leading origination activities in sourcing, advising/structuring and implementing highly sophisticated structured project finance deals in all sectors (Super Core, Core and Core+) (including inter alia; Transportation, Midstream, Renewables, Power, Digital Infrastructure, Regulated Utilities and Social Infrastructure). This role requires extensive engagement with C Suite clients (existing clients, new to bank, Financial Sponsors, Advisors, Lending community including both traditional banks and Institutional Investors) and internal partners (Credit, Asset Management, Coverage, Rates, Capital Markets, Ratings Advisory and Legal). Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and where relevant support the Directors in the origination and structuring of I&PF transactions that support the core LBG franchise including Scottish Widows opportunities providing a seamless client experience & ensuring full alignment with LBG strategy.
• Act as lead Deal Captain for the most complex lending and advisory transactions, collaborating closely with all internal and external partners and taking full ownership of driving forward internal processes to deliver successful financial close on transactions.
• Act as a mentor for Director and Associate Director talent pool and beyond, providing significant guidance and teaching for all colleagues and developing their abilities appropriately.
• Build and maintain the highest levels of internal networks, ensuring close interaction with Product Partners, Credit, Coverage, Asset Management, Legal, and Scottish Widows to ensure the strategy and business development activity carried out within the I&PF business is appropriately aligned
• Develop positive relationships with the top 10 largest I&PF sponsors/corporate entities. Collaborate with the advisory community to improve I&PF and bolster the Bank's reputation and identify new business opportunities that align with our business strategy.
Why Lloyds Banking Group? We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive. What we need from you?
• Extensive knowledge of the Infrastructure and Energy sector with a consistent track record in lending and/or advisory, matched with an outstanding transaction deal sheet with reference to the UK and increasingly the USA.
• Validated deal experience acting as an underwriter, lead structuring bank, advisor with recent transactions closed.
• Outstanding network of contacts and strong rapport across the sector including Sponsors, Advisors, Banks, Institutional Investors.
• Full knowledge and understanding of the structured finance market and different financing structures - Project Finance, WBS, Hybrid financing, Debt Capital Market offerings (Bond, USPP, ITL, Underwriting), PP (SW) and knowledge of Rates product (Swaps, FX)
• Understands the regulatory and compliance requirements affecting Banks and specifically Project Finance
  
  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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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. This role has been 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.