Director – SSA Coverage Banker

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Job Title: Director – SSA Coverage Banker

Location: London

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of your time, at our London office.

About This Opportunity:

Join Lloyds Banking Group and play a pivotal role in shaping relationships that matter. As part of our Institutional Coverage team, you'll work within the Governments sector, partnering with sovereigns, Supranationals and agencies to deliver strategic solutions that support global financial stability. We're committed to helping Britain prosper, and this role offers the chance to influence how we show up for clients while driving growth and innovation.

This senior leadership position is based in London and focuses on building sustainable partnerships with high-profile overseas government entities. You'll lead complex client relationships, handle risk effectively and collaborate across product teams to deliver tailored solutions.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and lead a strategic portfolio of government-sector clients, ensuring high-quality coverage and coordination across product partners.
• Identify and acquire new business opportunities, driving revenue growth through cross-selling and central initiatives across capital markets, lending and ECA.
• Maintain positive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders while ensuring compliance with regulatory and group policies.
• Mentor and guide Associate Directors and Associates, supporting their development and day-to-day activities.
• Partner with product and sector teams to negotiate credit terms and prepare proposals for global credit exposure.
• Proactively manage risk across credit, operational and market areas, ensuring robust controls and oversight.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose.

What you'll need:

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain senior-level client relationships within the sovereign, supras and agency (SSA) community, backed by a strong network.
• Shown success in originating and growing new business for the Governments sector across developed and emerging markets, and co-creating strategic solutions for Sovereign Wealth Funds, central banks and ministries globally.
• Extensive financial experience in advisory, credit/lending products and financial markets (repos, bonds, deposits, FX), with familiarity in LMA documentation for lending and ISDA/NDAs for markets products.
• Strong credit assessment skills, including negotiating complex lending structures such as RCFs and liquidity facilities, preparing proposals for global credit exposure and maintaining credibility with Credit and Investment Committees.
• Deep understanding of risk management and control, including regulatory, operational, market, reputational and competition risks, plus KYC oversight and mitigation strategies.
• Professional fluency in English; additional languages such as French, Arabic or other European/Asian languages are desirable but not essential.

About working for us:

Our ambition is to be the top tier UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing 'significant harm' to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks

As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA's Financial Services Register

This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC R as defined in the FCA Handbook

The Person  ("P") performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1)  P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC R; and(2)  those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm.

If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.