Associate Director | Financial Risk Advisory, Corporate Solutions | LBCM Capital Markets

JOB TITLE:           Associate Director - Financial Risk Advisory, Corporate Solutions

LOCATION:         London

SALARY:            Competitive package

HOURS:                  Full time

About this opportunity

We’re currently looking for a driven professional for the role of Associate Director within the Financial Risk & Accounting Advisory (FRA) team, part of the Corporate Solutions group within Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets (LBCM).

The role of the Financial Risk & Accounting Advisory team, is to provide strategic risk management analysis to the bank’s Corporate and Financial Institution (FI) clients, with the aim of strengthening and deepening our client relationships, differentiating Lloyds Bank from the competition and generating new business opportunities.

We help companies to better understand the impact of financial market risks on their business or portfolios, establish their risk tolerance across asset classes and design optimal hedging strategies to help them mitigate these risks and achieve their strategic objectives. Our ultimate goal is to deliver robust, product-agnostic analysis which adds value to clients and helps Lloyds Banking Group to become a trusted risk management partner.

The scope of our engagements ranges from producing customised analysis of a company’s portfolio, balance sheet or cash flows (incorporating FX, interest rate, commodity, inflation and liquidity risks) through to the development of market, event or sector-driven thematics and articles on specific areas of risk management.

The team works in close partnership with the Corporate and FI derivative Sales teams and other product and coverage areas across LBCM and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB). Externally, the team typically engages with clients’ Treasurers or FDs/CFOs (or the wider Board).

What you'll be doing...

Key responsibilities include:

• Proactively engaging with the Sales teams and other Product partners in order to identify and develop opportunities and deliver risk management analysis to clients.
• Becoming a trusted point of contact for Sales colleagues and other Product and Coverage partners in relation to complex risk management queries.
• Developing the ability and experience to work on client projects autonomously by covering the entire ‘front-to-back’ process: producing and delivering analyses, i.e. framing the problem, quantifying the risks, evaluating the merits of potential strategies, preparing the client material and delivering the content to the client – all with the support of more senior colleagues as appropriate.
• Building and maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of developments and trends in financial and capital markets and in risk management products and strategies in order to enable the team to deliver best-in-class analysis to clients.
• Contributing to the development and oversight of the team’s modelling capabilities and framework in order to enable the team and its stakeholders to deliver sophisticated and value-adding analysis to clients.
• Contributing to the strategy of the team and promoting the work of the team through developing and utilising your internal network. Understanding the objectives of the team’s key stakeholders and helping to ensure that our areas of focus are aligned to theirs.
• Undertaking the duties of this role in accordance with the requirements of the company's Regulators, including FCA's Principles for Business. Ensuring compliance with the Bank’s policies, procedures and guidelines together with all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements where appropriate implementing actions to protect the Bank’s business at all times.
• Championing a strong control and compliance culture by demonstrating a sound understanding of the role in managing risk effectively for the benefit of clients, colleagues and the Bank.

What you’ll need

We’re currently looking for a motivated and experienced individual to join the team to further develop its capacity and capabilities. Whilst good attention to detail and strong verbal and written communication skills are a must, the following skills/knowledge are also desirable;

• Strong quantitative analytical ability.
• Knowledge of FX, fixed income and commodity markets and products.
• Knowledge and experience of typical financial risk management issues faced by Corporates and FIs and strategies employed to mitigate those risks.
• Good understanding of financial modelling and common risk measures.
• Good working knowledge of corporate finance concepts, familiarity with financial statements, relevant accounting requirements and common financial metrics and ratios.
• Problem solving ‘can do’ attitude and approach.
• Enthusiasm and willingness/inquisitiveness to learn more about complex financial risk management issues.
• Ability and track record in developing strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Programming knowledge and experience

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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

• 30 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!