Associate- Global Banks & Specialist Finance- Institutional Coverage

End Date

Monday 17 February 2025

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 - Global Banks & Specialist Finance - Institutional Coverage
LOCATION: London, 10 Gresham Street

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 our London office.

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate to join the Global Banks team. This role will be focused on the coverage segment of Global Banks & Specialist finance team, a fast paced and deal orientated segment of the bank – which is at the forefront of Lloyds’ new growth strategy.
You’ll be primarily supporting the MD, RD and AD on a material client portfolio consisting of UK Banks, South African Banks, Irish Banks and UK Building Societies – helping deepen the existing relationships, bringing the bank’s solutions to the client and support overall objective of becoming “trusted strategic partners” to these clients. In addition to this, you’ll also receive the opportunity to manage certain clients from the beginning, providing an opportunity to own and build relationships.
The role will require close collaboration with senior partners and business owners across several key product areas – most specifically Payments, Trade Finance, Financial Markets, Debt Capital Markets and Group Partner. Therefore, a collaborative nature and intrinsic interest to learn more about these areas will be a meaningful attribute for any prospective candidate.
Additionally, you'll also be part of the wider Global Banks & Specialist Finance team, therefore there will be requirement at times to support on other segments & team priorities, providing a broader opportunity to develop skills and showcase your abilities.

Given the varied nature of clients across the portfolio, you'll need to be a motivated self-starter with the desire to quickly understand your new role and clients. Whilst also working collaboratively with product partners and credit, to help implement a strategic plan to achieve objectives across the client base.

What you’ll be doing

Once up to speed with the broader portfolio, you’ll be given the opportunity to:

• Co-manage a portfolio of client relationships as mentioned above
• Participate in pitching new lines of business, recommending, and implementing solutions
• Collaborate with product partners and Client Services to respond to client needs in a timely manner, raising where appropriate in a time-pressured environment
• Work alongside senior RM team to deliver large projects, initiatives, and transactions
• Administer the annual renewal process for the portfolio, engaging with business partners and credit risk
• Challenge processes and find new ways of working to help craft a more efficient, client focussed team
• Ensure legal and other documentation is aligned with credit sanction, Bank and Regulatory policy to minimise risk

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Market Knowledge – an awareness of the wider business, economic and market environment that we operate in
• Product Knowledge – Understanding of the key product suite that Lloyds can offer both from Lloyds Bank and Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets
• Collaboration – a great teammate who can take the broader view for the benefit of those they work with
• Influencing – ability to influence and persuade the Commercial Bank across the Cube and wider Group leadership teams as appropriate
• Communication – ability to communicate effectively at all levels and across different audiences both internally and externally
• Regulatory – an interest in the different regulatory framework/requirements within which the Banks and Building societies operate
• Risk Management & Control – the ability to identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks.  An awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the business and the role the individual plays in managing them

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build 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%
• A discretionary annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you!

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.