Benefits of working at Together
* 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
* Free access to company holiday homes
* Buy & sell holidays
* Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
* Matched pension contribution
* Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
* Life assurance and Critical illness cover
* Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
* Free local gym access
* Local bar / restaurant discounts
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We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.
We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.
Job Description
As our Corporate Lending Director, you will work as part of our Charles Street division, which operates with great success supporting professional property developers, investors and SME’s to access bespoke funds for a wide variety of property based lending including Bridging finance, Buy-to-let, commercial mortgages, Development Loans and sub-charge loans.
This role will principally be focused on managing the sub-charge product and business. With oversight and management of our Sub-charge and corporate portfolio clients, you will support the business to make good lending decisions both for sub-charge and direct corporate clients.
As our Corporate Lending Director, we are looking for someone to:
* Manage the Charles Street sub-charge business: including the review and onboarding of new customers and relationship management of existing customers
* Ensure the successful management of the sub-charge portfolio – evaluating and approving loan applications on a case-by-case basis. Co-ordinating audits, supporting processes and policies to ensure efficient and effective operations. Supporting the legal and on-boarding process from inception through to completion
* Portfolio manage all sub-charge clients attending regular meetings with their principles and evaluating their credit worthiness and our appetite to continue support to those clients
* Have oversight of the underwriting process for both sub-charge and direct corporate lending; supporting the assessment and underwriting of larger, complex loan applications. Providing guidance to the team to support sound lending decisions
* Manage the application and performance of aggregate credit limits (ACLs) across portfolio accounts both directly with Charles Street and the sub-charge lenders
* Keep and produce accurate data and MI to ensure all clients are appropriately managed and monthly reporting can be provided to the MD to help and support the strategic direction of the business
* Support the Managing Director with the growth and risk management of the sub-charge business
* Work closely with the whole team consisting of underwriting and portfolio divisions to ensure clients receive best in class service levels and our company reaches its targets of steady and safe growth with minimal risk
Qualifications
Essential
* Lending/underwriting experience across residential and commercial assets
* Experience of working in the specialist lending / bridging industry
* Strong understanding of credit risk management principles across the credit lifecycle
* Relationship management experience
* Leadership experience of managing/working as part of a high performing corporate lending team
* Ability to influence at all levels
If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.
Additional Information
Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.