Associate Director, Syndicated Finance

What is the opportunity?
Are you ready to play a pivotal role in enhancing our Originate-to-Distribute capabilities in line with the Corporate & Commercial Bank's strategic vision? We're looking for a dynamic professional to lead the charge in driving ratings excellence across capital structures and unlocking greater value in Broadly Syndicated Loan (BSL) trades.

This is your opportunity to influence deal economics, secure enhanced roles, and be at the forefront of strategic growth in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

In This Role, You Will

• Assessment of Corporate and Instrument Ratings for Capital Structures
• Facilitating the relationship between Issuers and Ratings Agencies
• Ability to lead the issuer through the ratings process and subsequent maintenance
• Assessment, structuring and execution of European Leveraged Acquisition Finance trades.
• Ensuring the highest standards of regulatory and risk compliance

What will make you stand out?

• Significant experience of Capital structuring and Ratings Assessment in the European Leveraged Finance
• Deal assessment and execution experience
• Strong understanding of financial markets, financing structures and debt instruments

Essential Qualifications
There are no minimum educational requirements for this role.

More About The Team
Corporate & Commercial Banking Division combines all of the Banks business and corporate banking customers in one division alongside a range of market services in core markets of Republic Of Ireland, UK, USA and selective European offices.

The division consists of c1,100 colleagues serving all customer types from SMEs to national and international corporates alongside financial sponsors, with total lending in excess of €21bn.

Global Acquisition Finance is a €6.0Bn asset business providing a full range of debt facilities to support private equity sponsored leveraged financings. It is a core franchise business with c.100 staff. The business has a large geographic footprint with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Stamford and Chicago.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily at Gresham Street, London. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?
The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 26 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy along with working parent and carer supports.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us; we offer a substantial health insurance contribution, employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career

Flexible working matching promise
We know how important flexible working arrangements are to our colleagues and we promise to try to match your current flexible working arrangement in this new role (all existing working arrangements considered)

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Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Self
• Better together - Self
• Be Decisive - Self
• Take Ownership - Self
• Manage Risk - Self

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.