
Credit Officer - Mid Corporates
- Edinburgh
- Permanent
- Full-time
HOURS: Full time
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office locationThe BCB Credit Underwriting team is looking to recruit a colleague at the Credit Officer level to the Mid Corporate Credit team.BCB Credit Underwriting team works closely with Coverage & Product partners, providing responsible, & sustainable credit risk management solutions to enable our customers and our business to grow. Mid Corporate customers are UK focused businesses generating revenues between £25m - £100m p.a., with the Mid Corporate business making significant investment to meet our growth aspirations in this segment.We're responsible for advocating on credit process, policy & strategy, assessing the creditworthiness of our customers, structuring transactions, sanctioning transactions and monitoring the performance of our portfolio.Job DescriptionWhat you’ll be doing
- Conduct independent credit assessments for presentation to sanctioning officials to enable informed decisions to be made. This involves the analysis of company prepared information, market due diligence, and identifying key strengths and risks. Submissions include new to bank business, increased lending, variations from existing terms, restructures and annual credit reviews.
- Liaise with originators, relationship managers, products partners, clients and where necessary shape structured credit proposals in order to maintain an acceptable balance of risk and reward.
- Monitor and control credit exposures to identify increases to the risk profile, communicating with senior Risk colleagues and sanctioners as well as other interested parties as appropriate, and to maintain compliance with LBG policy and regulatory policy.
- Undertake customer, sector and market research to ensure assessments have an external dimension and seek to apply sound judgement to ensure relevant material is included when evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of a lending proposal. This may include sensitivity analysis of internal/external cash flow models.
- Exercise credit authority delegation, where applicable.
- Maintain records to satisfy internal and external requirements, particularly relating to data quality and statutory reporting. You'll assess proposed transactions against Group Policy and oversight the deal origination team in the same respect.
- A strong background in credit risk and financial analysis and, ideally, experience of cashflow based lending.
- Well-developed communication and influencing skills and are confident to challenge the status quo whilst being comfortable making and explaining your recommendations.
- Ability to balance conflicting demands whilst delivering to tight timescales.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new challenges.
- Demonstrate sound judgement, strong decision-making skills, good attention to detail and the ability to collaborate.
- 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