Lead Transaction Manager - EMEA Lending Fulfilment Team

Job Description:

Job Title: Lead Transaction Manager – EMEA Lending Fulfilment Team

Corporate Title:  Vice President

Location:  Bromley

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.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll  find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Role Description:

Here at our Bromley office, we are looking for an individual to join our EMEA Lending Fulfilment team as a Senior Operations Manager.

The successful individual is required to have a solid understanding of project management, credit agreement (LMA), credit underwriting process and risk methodology risk culture. Our offshore team in India also plays a major part in day to day transaction processing therefore regular contact is maintained with this team to ensure client satisfaction is maintained.

This job is responsible for managing a unit for a site, region, or product line within the bank's internal operations. Key responsibilities include identifying, analysing, and resolving highly complex problems, ensuring compliance with policies, and developing and implementing new processes to improve operating efficiency and ensure accuracy of workflow. Job expectations include managing employee performance, development, talent planning, and overseeing the budget, expenses, reporting, and forecasting.

Responsibilities:

• Ongoing review of syndicated loan and supporting finance & security documentation

• Covenant monitoring through the collection and analysis of financial statements and information, with immediate distribution and posting of required documentation to the wider lender group.

• Facilitating deal amendments and handling the collection of lender votes within required timeframes

• Manages staffing levels and capacities, prioritizes employee development by providing effective coaching and training, and shares constructive feedback to drive Operational Excellence

• Oversees end-to-end processes and ensures adherence to bank and regulatory policy and procedures when making decisions that impact various operations and product lines

• Develops and analyses procedures to enhance unit and/or product-related activities and oversees budget and expense management, reporting, and forecasting for designated areas

• Implements improvements to drive the growth to the overall processes and identifies data, metrics, and key performance indicators to measure process effectiveness

• Aligns bank priorities and strategies to employee metrics and goals, evaluates employee progress, and strives to recognize, encourage, and improve team performance to support an inclusive work environment

Managerial Responsibilities:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Breaks down barriers to create a more inclusive environment that supports company D&I goals

• Challenges end-to-end process efficiency and effectiveness, champion data driven decision-making and removes obstacles to optimize operations

• Contributes to enterprise strategy and influence messaging to connect team contributions to business purpose, results, and success

• Inspects and challenges risk controls, governance and culture to ensure the timely identification, escalation, debate and remediation of risk across the organization

• Coaches to sustain and elevates organizational performance while differentiating to ensure pay for performance

• Efficiently allocates and manages resources across the organization to drive short- and long-term profitability

• Inspects and manages the health of the bench to ensure succession for the organization, while supporting enterprise talent needs

• Mobilizes organizational resources to deliver the full range of the bank’s capabilities to meet client needs and to gain competitive advantage

What we are looking for:

• You will be Responsible for the ongoing management of a portfolio of syndicated loans

• You will have extensive people management experience

•  You will have loan Administration/ Loans & Agency Documentation Experience is Essential

• You will loan product knowledge preferable

• You will loan IQ experience

• Great customer and client Focus

• Good project management skills

• Engaged from a O&I standpoint

• Experience with stakeholder engagement

• Knowledge of risk methodology risk culture

• Experience with process improvement delivery

• Good communication skills.

Skills that will help:

•  Microsoft Excel experience will be an advantage

•  Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills

•  Excellent communication skills at all levels

•  Attention to detail

•  Adaptability

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

• 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 access to school holiday clubs 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.

• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

• 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 program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is 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 opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or 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.