# Associate Director

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Bristol, Bridgewater House
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an Associate Director to join our Large Corporate Lending team in Bristol or Reading.

The successful candidate will manage debt relationships with high-value corporate clients and potential clients, providing support to the bank's senior management team in setting strategic direction and managing debt structuring risk across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

- Collaboration with account managers to structure, recommend and implement debt products and services for existing and potential clients

- Management of debt structuring, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, and oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness

- Relationship management of debt structuring stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders and maintaining the quality of external third-party services

- Management of key stakeholder relationships within target companies to understand their needs and recommend appropriate solutions

- Management of debt structuring risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank's debt structuring and compliance functions

- Monitoring the financial performance of each transaction completed, as well as the wider debt structuring department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control

- Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities

As an Associate Director, you will be expected to:

- Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness

- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function

- Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Proven credit analysis experience and structuring skills

- A forward-thinking ability to analyse and interpret financial statements and research internal and external market data sources

- Ability to work in a dynamic environment, often to tight timelines

- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills

- Understanding of the end-to-end lending journey in corporate banking

- Awareness of different sources of corporate funding and macro-economic factors affecting debt markets

A higher education degree or suitable professional qualification (such as ACCA, AMCT, CFA) and lending experience within a financial institution are highly valued.

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## Skills

### Required
- credit analysis
- structuring skills
- financial statement analysis
- market research
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- ACCA
- AMCT
- CFA
- lending experience

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