Director- Leveraged Finance Credit Risk

We are working with a leading global financial-services institution to appoint a Director, Leveraged Finance Credit within its EMEA Corporate & Investment Banking Credit function. This is a high-profile role for a senior credit professional who wants real transaction influence, significant stakeholder exposure and ownership of complex leveraged-finance risk.

Director, Leveraged Finance Credit

Location: London

Key responsibilities

• Assess, challenge and approve, or make recommendations on, complex corporate and leveraged-finance transactions across EMEA.

• Provide independent, commercially minded challenge to Relationship Management, Leveraged Finance, Origination and Distribution teams on transaction structure, financial risk, downside scenarios and proposed mitigants.

• Review sponsor-backed, acquisition-finance, refinancing and other leveraged lending transactions, ensuring risks are appropriately understood, structured and aligned with the firm's risk appetite.

• Take active responsibility for a portfolio of credit exposures, including monitoring performance, identifying early-warning indicators and addressing potential deterioration or policy breaches.

• Support the development of credit strategy, sector appetite, risk limits and portfolio priori...