Job Description

End Date Friday 25 July 2025
Salary Range 0 - 0
Flexible Working Options Job Share
Summary Senior product specialist, shaping, driving and embedding the medium term strategy for Loan Financing. Providing leadership, direction and support to a team of product specialists ensuring the overall Loan Financing plan is delivered and income generated ensuring customer needs are met.

JOB TITLE: Director, Strategic Debt Finance
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of our time at an office hub mentioned above.
About this opportunity
We're offering an exciting opportunity for an experiences Director to join our Strategic Debt Finance - Large (SDF Large) team.
This leadership role plays a crucial role in shaping and advancing the SDF strategy, with a particular focus on driving deal origination and execution of structured debt for private equity owned businesses in all end market segments.
You'll use a proven network of senior level relationships across corporates and financial sponsors to originate high-quality opportunities and deliver strategic outcomes for our clients. This is an ideal role for a seasoned leverage finance specialist.
About us
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here.
Skills we're looking for
Leading and driving the origination and execution of loan and bond products for private equity clients
Maintain business with new and existing clients
Lead deal teams to prepare and delivery of client presentations
Develop detailed understanding of client requirements to identify and pitch client solutions
Review and negotiate legal documentation
Lead preparation of marketing materials and due diligence process for transactions
Maintain and build relationships with senior internal stakeholders
Always to undertake the duties of this role in accordance with the requirements of the company's Regulators, including FCA's Principles for Business
Desirable
Network of large cap private equity contacts
Track record of origination and deal flow generation with a creative approach to identifying innovative client solutions
Track record of establishing relationships with clients and advisors in order to originate new business
Track record of underwriting and bridging transactions in the large cap leverage finance market
Track record of executing of loan and HY products with strong technical experience including structuring, accounting and modelling
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Team player, track record of leading deal teams and developing junior talent
Ability to deliver against financial targets
Strong knowledge of the regulatory and compliance requirements
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
If all of this resonates, and you want a job with big meaning, then please do get in touch to discuss!
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 candidate 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.
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.