Join us as a Head of Mid-Corporate Debt in the Large Corporate Lending ("LCL") team.
Location: Birmingham, Bristol or Manchester
The Large Corporate Lending team are at the heart of the delivery of the UK Corporate Banking's asset growth agenda. We support Large and Mid-Corporate Coverage colleagues with the ability to originate and structure lending opportunities (within our own risk appetite) that meet our clients' desire to utilise debt finance to facilitate their own growth ambitions.
As the Head of Mid-Corporate Debt you will lead a team of high performing VP & AVP Debt Structurers, who provide dedicated debt structuring support on a portfolio of debt transactions in the Mid-Corporate Segment across the UK. You will proactively coach, support and develop your VP and AVP colleagues through workflow management as well as active oversight and support of their work in progress, providing timely coaching and supportive interventions to both develop them but also positively influence Barclays' right to win on any given transaction.
As part of the effective delivery of your duties you will also engage with clients and advisors, both alongside your VPs and AVPs and independently, as part of the overall transaction process acting in both a senior sponsor and lead structurer capacity.
As the most senior debt partner to the Mid-Corporate segment you will be jointly accountable alongside Coverage leaders for the overall lending performance of the Mid-Corporate business. This will require you to have oversight of the corporate lending income and balance performance and identify and execute activities to positively influence the same. This will require you to either lead, support or consult on a variety of commercial growth and client experience initiatives in partnership with Coverage, Risk, Portfolio, Product Management, Lending Operations and Technology teams.
The successful candidate will also become part of the Large Corporate Lending Leadership team and as such will be required to provide the voice of the Mid Corporate debt business at the LCL Leadership table as well as provide wider support and direction to the overall delivery of the LCL business.
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
The candidate should be able to demonstrate experience of having led deal teams earlier in their career to deliver debt transactions
Credit skills, and debt finance experience as well as an understanding of the end to end lending journeys in UKC with particular awareness of the characteristics of borrowers and transactions in the upper SME / lower mid-market
Be passionate about developing colleagues in both technical and interpersonal skills
Geographically mobile with the ability to spend time travelling to client and colleague sites
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
Previous experience of working within a transaction environment
Experience of complex problem solving
Experience of leading and inspiring teams
The ability to spot early variances in the performance of a business, identify solutions, and drive those solutions into execution
A curious mind to challenge, innovate and transform processes and working practices.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role can be based in any regional location where there is a critical mass of co-located Mid-Corporate colleagues.
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