JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Lead Transaction Manager – EMEA Lending Fulfilment Team

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP:

• Microsoft Excel experience will be an advantage
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Attention to detail
• Adaptability

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

Here at our Bromley office, we are looking for an individual to join our EMEA Lending Fulfilment team as a Senior Operations Manager.
The successful individual is required to have a solid understanding of project management, credit agreement (LMA), credit underwriting process and risk methodology risk culture. Our offshore team in India also plays a major part in day to day transaction processing therefore regular contact is maintained with this team to ensure client satisfaction is maintained.
This job is responsible for managing a unit for a site, region, or product line within the bank’s internal operations. Key responsibilities include identifying, analysing, and resolving highly complex problems, ensuring compliance with policies, and developing and implementing new processes to improve operating efficiency and ensure accuracy of workflow. Job expectations include managing employee performance, development, talent planning, and overseeing the budget, expenses, reporting, and forecasting.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ongoing review of syndicated loan and supporting finance & security documentation
• Covenant monitoring through the collection and analysis of financial statements and information, with immediate distribution and posting of required documentation to the wider lender group.
• Facilitating deal amendments and handling the collection of lender votes within required timeframes
• Manages staffing levels and capacities, prioritizes employee development by providing effective coaching and training, and shares constructive feedback to drive Operational Excellence
• Oversees end-to-end processes and ensures adherence to bank and regulatory policy and procedures when making decisions that impact various operations and product lines
• Develops and analyses procedures to enhance unit and/or product-related activities and oversees budget and expense management, reporting, and forecasting for designated areas
• Implements improvements to drive the growth to the overall processes and identifies data, metrics, and key performance indicators to measure process effectiveness
• Aligns bank priorities and strategies to employee metrics and goals, evaluates employee progress, and strives to recognize, encourage, and improve team performance to support an inclusive work environment

MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company D&I goals
• Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations
• Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success
• Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization
• Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance
• Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short- and long-term profitability
• Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs
• Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank’s capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage