Senior Agency Management Portfolio Consultant

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Agency Management Portfolio Consultant

Corporate Title:  Vice President

Location:  Bromley/Dublin/Chester

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Role Description:

An opportunity has arisen for a seasoned Agency Management Consultant to join our Agency Management & Banking Loans Operations Team. We are an established team based in our Bromley office, with daily interaction with our front-line partners (Enterprise Credit, Leasing, Leverage Finance and Syndications desks) as well as our Booking, Servicing & Operations teammates.

The team is core to our product offering as a Company and is an integral part of the global Syndicated & Corporate Lending Operations for the Bank.

The Agency Management Team is responsible for coordinating all agency-related activities from inception to delivery across the entire portfolio. They act both as Facility and Security Agent spanning all deals where Bank of America entity is either the main Facility Agent or a Sub Agent.

The team scope cuts across both syndication, export credit finance and leasing deals.

Responsibilities:

• You will manage your own portfolio of senior agency deals
• You will support the Regional Ops Head and your team lead as one of the Senior people on the team
• You will be responsible for the day-to-day resolution of complex problems and the execution of complex transactions incl. new deal execution, amendment, refinancing, financials
• You will review all credit agreements where we are the agent, in line with the Bank risk appetite and Loan Market Association agency provisions, being empowered to negotiate with our legal and front-line partners to provide optimal solutions for clients and the firm
• You will have access to key leaders across the enterprise and industry
• You will be the first point of contact for clients of the business and the lenders part of the syndication

What we are looking for:

• You will have experience in managing your own portfolio/project driving independently to delivery as well as part of a team
• You will have previous agency management, paralegal and/or loan document experience
• You will have experience liaising with internal partners up to executive level

Skills that will help:

• Prior experience with leasing and/or export credit agency documentation would be an advantage

Benefits of working at Bank of America
 

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• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership programme and receive discounted entry to some of the UK and Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area

Bank of America

Good conduct and sound judgment are crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependents, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.