Associate Director, Corporate Real Estate Loan Syndicate

End Date

Wednesday 16 July 2025

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£0 - £0

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Job Description

Job Title: Associate Director, Corporate Real Estate Loan Syndicate

Location: London

Salary: Competitive package

Hours: Full time

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

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate to join our Corporate Real Estate (‘CRE’) Capital Markets and Syndicate team within the Debt Solutions team, part of Corporate and Institutional Banking.

You'll support the team with all aspects of loan origination and distribution including coordination, underwriting, best efforts and broader loan distribution mandates. You’ll also have responsibilities in supporting junior associates and graduates by sharing standard methodology as well as imparting technical and specialist CRE knowledge.

What you’ll be doing:

- Working with CRE Originators to grow the business, lead on client pitches to win coordination, underwriting and best efforts mandates.
- Taking a lead role in new deal structuring through Term Sheet negotiation, advising on loan market conditions as well as opining on market facing elements of the terms to ensure ability to successfully distribute loan facilities as required
- Leading / assisting primary syndication process including, creating information memorandums, answering investor questions, assisting Loan Sales with the trade settlement mechanics
- Developing relationships across the CRE loan market, building wide market knowledge of the lending landscape
- Support Capital Markets lead in executing and delivering whole loan underwrites, senior/mezz underwrites, back leverage, warehousing and securitisation solutions
- Leading negotiation, structuring and execution of loan documentation working with external advisors as well as internal partners.
- Execution of internal approvals process for Underwrite, Best Efforts and Bridge transactions, including report writing and presentation to senior management
- Working on wider origination and syndication strategies to assist growth of CRE business
- Supporting junior resource including associates and graduates by sharing standard methodology as well as imparting technical and specialist CRE knowledge.
- Taking ownership of ongoing team reporting for external league tables as well as internal finance and balance sheet reporting and reconciliation

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need:

- Significant experience in Real Estate Origination or Syndication preferred with understanding of financing requirements across a wide variety or CRE asset classes. Wider real estate industry knowledge from advisory or professional services with transferable knowledge to CRE syndications could be considered.
- Knowledge and experience of other debt financing and risk management products (e.g. whole loans, back leverage, bonds, USPPs, derivatives, CMBS) would be advantageous
- Strong understanding of the Loan Markets Association CRE Investment and Development Finance documentation
- Proven track record of leading transactions from origination through to execution and of delivering successful client outcomes
- Strong and established relationships with a broad range of borrowers, advisors, banks and investors

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading 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