Associate Director - Lender Coverage

Join us as an Associate Director - Lender Coverage, where you’ll play a key role in providing loan market insight and expertise to clients and colleagues across the business. Working alongside the Director of Lender Coverage, Relationship Directors and product partners, you’ll help identify and develop new lending opportunities while supporting the continued growth of our Corporate Debt Finance franchise.

You’ll keep close to developments across the primary and secondary loan markets, using your knowledge of pricing, comparable transactions, liquidity and investor appetite to provide clear and relevant market insight. You’ll produce client-facing market updates, support pricing and structuring discussions, and bring together lender and investor feedback to help shape informed conversations with clients.

You’ll also help us stay ahead of future financing opportunities by analysing client maturity profiles, refinancing windows and covenant headroom. From identifying refinancing and amend-and-extend opportunities through to preparing analysis and supporting the handover of mandates to execution teams, you’ll work closely with colleagues across Coverage, Debt Finance, Credit, Legal, Sales and Trading to deliver a joined‑up, high‑quality client experience.

Alongside your client and market responsibilities, you’ll support the delivery of Loan Market Updates and presentations, sharing your knowledge across the business and helping strengthen debt‑market capability across Corporate Banking.

• Experience at AVP or Analyst level within Lender Coverage, Debt Finance, Leveraged Finance, Credit, Debt Capital Markets or Debt Advisory
• Working knowledge of corporate and leveraged loan markets, including credit, underwriting, syndication and documentation.
• Proven ability to analyse and interpret financial statements and to research internal and external market data sources
• A solid ability to collect, interpret and communicate complex data clearly and concisely
• An ability to apply AI tools to practical analysis and to improve team processes, in line with approved Barclays processes

• Higher education degree or suitable professional qualification (e.g. ACCA, AMCT, CFA)
• Lending or loan syndication experience within a financial institution
• Demonstrable interest in corporate and leveraged loan markets, including sponsor-backed borrowers

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in London.

To raise capital and manage the financial risk of clients in collaboration with multiple financial institutions, including financial advisory services, identification of market opportunities, research, economic analysis.

• Development and maintenance of strong relationships with corporate and institutional clients to understand their financing needs and objectives and to develop fixed income syndicated capital market offerings. .
• Development and maintenance of complex financial models to assess the value of assets, companies, or securities and identify the most appropriate structuring of capital raising initiatives, including loan, bond or derivatives syndications. .
• Identification, assessment, and management of risks associated with syndicated fixed income capital markets transactions and development of risk mitigation strategies in alignment with regulatory requirements, including the increase in complexity and potential conflicts of interest. .
• Research, financial data analysis and continued development of…