Associate - Corporate Trade and Working Capital Sales

End Date Tuesday 27 June 2023 Salary Range £0 - £0
Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary See Below Job Description JOB TITLE: Associate - Corporate Trade and Working Capital Sales
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. We're currently seeking an Associate to join our team working within the Structuring, Transaction Execution and Management (STEM) function Within Corporate Trade and Working Capital Sales. This is an outstanding opportunity to support a portfolio of clients as well as managing the sales process for non-allocated portfolio clients. About this opportunity! Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) is an origination and coverage business operating across the UK and North America. The business leads with a sector and relationship focus. It maintains UK regional delivery through hubs in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester. The Corporate Trade and Working Capital (CTWC) sales team is a cross-sector product team providing our CIB clients with working capital solutions across traditional trade, open account (including receivables, payables, invoice finance and asset backed lending), structured trade and commodity finance and asset finance. This role provides the connectivity from our client through to CIC Coverage, Trade Sales, Trade Product and ultimately to Trade Services. Your accountabilities will include:

• Management of flow and new issuance transactions (including transaction pricing) for clients.
• Support with the execution of opportunities across a portfolio of clients.
• Support credit processes (both renewals and new business) across all trade products.
• Engagement of trade operations, lending execution and internal / external legal for deals as the need arises.
• Develop and maintaining an understanding of our product sets including but not limited to traditional trade, open account (including receivables, payables, invoice finance and asset backed lending), structured trade and commodity finance and asset finance.
• Shadowing deals from origination to mandated stage, and taking ownership of deals from execution phase through to completion.
• Reviewing MI and working with Coverage, Trade Services and the Client on income variances to resolve with all parties.
• Ensuring invoicing and fees are collected and managing client escalations in this respect.
• Ensuring all reporting is complete and accurate including OneView, Disco, EPC and OneMI alongside other reporting tools.
• Active contribution to Conduct Risk Compliance – pulling together documents, checklists and ensuring 100% compliance.

Why Lloyds Banking Group? We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What we need from you? You'll need to have a solid understanding of Excel and PowerPoint and the ability to work with financial models. Excellent analytical skills with experience interpreting data and implement proactive, practical, creative and innovative solutions combined with profitability assessment is also essential. Desirable skills:

• Technical understanding of Trade and Working Capital products

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
• 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.