Associate Director, Loan Asset Management, Portfolio Management

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Tuesday 18 June 2024
Salary Range
£0 - £0
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Associate Director, Loan Asset Management, Portfolio Management
LOCATION: London / Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About This Opportunity
The Portfolio Management Mandate is to optimise the risk/return profile of the CIB loan book whilst supporting the development and maintenance of LBG’s corporate and institutional client franchise.
Our team is responsible for delivering an efficient use of financial resources (e.g. capital, liquidity, funding) to create space to do more with our clients, whilst improving value for shareholders.
Key to achieving this is our Loan Asset Management team within PM. The team is accountable for the performance of the CIB loan book and is responsible for ensuring that we maximise returns on the capital deployed in support of the development and maintenance of LBG’s Corporate and Institutional client franchise. Our key role is to work with Coverage and Risk with respect to the deployment and subsequent management of capital provided to our clients from a risk perspective as well as a regulatory perspective.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Loan asset management team as an Associate Director with responsibility to support the Portfolio Director for the lending portfolio of Corporate Coverage (CC) in CIB.

Responsibilities would include:

• Support the Portfolio Director to Co-ordinate with relevant Corporate Coverage heads and their counterparts in Risk Management to create a strategic plan for the relevant portfolio.
• Work closely with the Portfolio director to review all new deal activity for the relevant portfolio. To include:

i) Optimising the risk/return profile of the CIB loan book, whilst supporting the development and maintenance of LBG’s Corporate client franchise
ii) Ensuring disciplined origination of CIBs credit exposures, consistent with agreed strategy, risk appetite and return objectives.
iii) Owning and managing the P&L and associated risks of the relevant lending portfolio utilising risk distribution tools including loan asset sales, CDS and CRI, as well as working with the Structured Distribution team on strategic solutions to manage portfolio issues.

iv) Ensure assessment of credit risk, capital, and balance sheet usage at the point of origination.

• Support the delivery the P&L and balance sheet commitments associated with the relevant portfolio, including revenue, impairment, Risk Weighted Assets, and balance sheet deployed.
• Play a role in actively running the portfolio - reduce risk and/or improve returns; utilising loan asset sales, credit risk insurance and credit default swaps to reduce single name exposures and/or increase capacity for additional client business.
• Work in partnership with Credit, Coverage and Product teams to enhance 1st line credit risk management, finding opportunities to deliver sustainable growth and mitigate credit and concentration risk.

Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What You’ll Need
This role would suit a pro-active & driven person who is bold and willing to challenge status quo. You’ll be tenacious and enjoy inspiring change in one of our biggest growth business areas in CIB.

You’ll have the right technical background and bring CC client experience alongside:

• Relationship and Customer Management: Evidenced ability to build strong working relationships across CC and with functional partners, to grow the franchise, handle risk and respond to changes in the internal and external business environment. You’ll have excellent interpersonal skills, able to influence Coverage and Risk as well as other customers at all levels across LBG.
• Commercial / Market Awareness: Previous experience of working with CC clients and a sound understanding of the clients, portfolios, and market in which they operate. Thorough understanding of the products, customer base, key segments, product lines, origination, and distribution channels. You’ll possess the ability to support the effective structuring and pricing of new business activity, based on a strong understanding of credit risk and the effective use of capital. Familiar with client returns methodology.
• Credit Risk: Credit experience to drive increased ownership of 1st line credit risk decision-making and ongoing stewardship across within CIB.
• Risk Management and Control: Demonstrable ability to identify, assess, monitor, control/mitigate credit and other key risks in with an awareness of impacts facing LBG and clients.
• Regulatory Framework and requirements : Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the firm operates and the relevant regulatory requirements and expectations.

And Any Experience Of These Would Be Really Useful

• Ability to produce detailed reports and other written material of a technical and/or complex nature. Uses clear and concise language to explain complex material, findings, or recommendations.
• Excellent commercial skill with a consistent track record of successfully handling a risk portfolio.

About Working For Us
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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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

• Support the Portfolio Director to Co-ordinate with relevant Corporate Coverage heads and their counterparts in Risk Management to create a strategic plan for the relevant portfolio.
• Work closely with the Portfolio director to review all new deal activity for the relevant portfolio. To include