Director - Strategic Debt Finance Asset Management ("SDF AM")

This is an exciting opportunity to join Strategic Debt Finance Asset Management (SDF AM), a specialist team responsible for managing a £3bn portfolio of highly leveraged and private equity-backed clients across a diverse range of sectors. As a Director, you'll lead a portfolio of complex client relationships, balancing risk management with the identification of opportunities to improve portfolio returns. You'll assess the sustainability of businesses, analyse cash flows and market dynamics, and provide insight that supports high-quality credit and investment decisions. Working closely with Coverage, Strategic Debt Finance Origination, Leveraged & Structured Credit and Portfolio Management teams, you'll take the lead on annual credit reviews, lending requests and complex credit events, including covenant amendments, incremental facilities, bolt-on acquisitions and refinancing activity. You'll also present recommendations to senior stakeholders and risk forums, often within demanding timeframes. Beyond portfolio management, you'll play a key leadership role within the team. You'll coach and develop colleagues, lead strategic projects, contribute to portfolio reporting and build strong relationships with financial sponsors, advisers and banking partners. This is a highly visible role offering significant exposure across the Bank and the opportunity to shape outcomes for some of our most complex corporate clients., Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

• 10 years' experience in leveraged finance, with knowledge of LMA loan documentation.
• Strong experience analysing and interpreting financial information, with the ability to present complex information clearly and succinctly
• Leadership experience, including managing and developing high-performing teams and contributing to wider strategic or portfolio initiatives
• Shown experience leading highly leveraged Corporate and/or Private Equity-backed portfolios, with exposure to sponsor-backed structures
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging with senior internal stakeholders, clients, sponsors and regulators (e.g. PRA)
• Strong credit assessment capability, including analysis of cash flow, business models and complex capital structures
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

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.

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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. 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
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