About the job

I’m working with a leading global investment manager that is looking to hire an experienced Loan Servicing / CLO Operations professional to join its London-based Operations team.This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong grounding in syndicated loan operations and CLOs who wants to take on a role with genuine ownership across the loan lifecycle, rather than simply processing transactions.

You’ll work closely with Portfolio Managers, Investment Teams, Finance, Agent Banks and external counterparties, playing a key role in ensuring the smooth and accurate operation of a global CLO platform.

You’ll be responsible for the day-to-day servicing of syndicated loans and CLO portfolios, with exposure across the full lifecycle. Daily duties will include:

Managing day-to-day loan lifecycle events, including interest, repayments, rollovers, amendments and other scheduled and ad-hoc activity.
Processing loan transactions and cash movements, ensuring positions and records remain accurate and up to date.
Supporting loan amendments, restructurings and facility changes, ensuring new terms and relevant data are correctly reflected across internal systems.
Managing activity relating to committed and uncommitted facilities, including drawdowns and associated processing.
Performing regular position, cash and system reconciliations across multiple internal platforms.
Investigating and resolving reconciliation breaks, identifying root causes and providing clear analysis to relevant stakeholders.
Supporting trade settlement activity and ensuring transactions are accurately reflected across the relevant operational systems.
Reviewing interest and payment notices, investigating discrepancies and ensuring accurate processing.
Working closely with investment, portfolio management, finance, operations and external counterparties to resolve issues and ensure transactions are processed efficiently.

They're looking for someone with a solid background in syndicated loan operations, ideally gained within an asset manager, investment manager, CLO platform, bank, agent or similar financial services environment.

The ideal candidate will have:Strong experience across syndicated loan servicing and operations.
Good knowledge of the primary and secondary loan markets, particularly PAR loans.
Experience working with CLOs and/or alternative credit portfolios, with an understanding of relevant lifecycle events.
Familiarity with loan servicing, settlement and reconciliation processes and the systems that support them (Ideally WSO)
Strong understanding of operational controls, cash movements and position management.

Responsibilities

About the job

You’ll be responsible for the day-to-day servicing of syndicated loans and CLO portfolios, with exposure across the full lifecycle. Daily duties will include:

Managing day-to-day loan lifecycle events, including interest, repayments, rollovers, amendments and other scheduled and ad-hoc activity.
Processing loan transactions and cash movements, ensuring positions and records remain accurate and up to date.
Supporting loan amendments, restructurings and facility changes, ensuring new terms and relevant data are correctly reflected across internal systems.
Managing activity relating to committed and uncommitted facilities, including drawdowns and associated processing.
Performing regular position, cash and system reconciliations across multiple internal platforms.
Investigating and resolving reconciliation breaks, identifying root causes and providing clear analysis to relevant stakeholders.
Supporting trade settlement activity and ensuring transactions are accurately reflected across the relevant operational systems.
Reviewing interest and payment notices, investigating discrepancies and ensuring accurate processing.
Working closely with investment, portfolio management, finance, operations and external counterparties to resolve issues and ensure transactions are processed efficiently.

The ideal candidate will have:Strong experience across syndicated loan servicing and operations.
Good knowledge of the primary and secondary loan markets, particularly PAR loans.
Experience working with CLOs and/or alternative credit portfolios, with an understanding of relevant lifecycle events.
Familiarity with loan servicing, settlement and reconciliation processes and the systems that support them (Ideally WSO)
Strong understanding of operational controls, cash movements and position management.