Leveraged Finance Credit Officer

Shape the Future of Lending – Join Barclays as a Leveraged Finance Credit Officer. At Barclays, credit decisions fuel our growth and safeguard our future. As a Leveraged Finance Credit Officer, you’ll be at the forefront of high-impact transactions and investment strategy. This is your chance to make decisions that shape the health and trajectory of our lending portfolio. You’ll work across diverse industries, valuing businesses, modelling their financial future, and helping us understand who we’re truly lending to.

If you have a passion for deep-dive financial analysis and want to be part of high-stakes decisions, your impact starts here.

To be successful as a Leveraged Finance Credit Officer, you should have experience with:

• Fundamental Credit Analysis – Assessing corporate creditworthiness across multiple sectors, including competitive positioning and risk factors.

• Financial Modelling & Valuation – Running detailed cash flow models and valuation assessments to support lending decisions.

• Portfolio Management Support – Providing analytical input on ongoing credit exposure, portfolio trends, and investment opportunities.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Financial Analysis Excellence – Strong command of interpreting financial statements, ratios, and market trends to drive actionable insight.

• Leveraged Finance Knowledge – Understanding complex capital structures and applying this lens to high-yield opportunities.

• Commercial Awareness & Sector Insight – Ability to contextualise data within wider industry trends and macroeconomic indicators.

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

Location: London

Anchor days: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday

Purpose of the role

To independently assess and make credit decisions for complex financing transactions within the LevFin, SLF, and Hedge Funds sectors, ensuring alignment with the bank's credit risk appetite and regulatory requirements and contribute to the development and implementation of credit risk policies and procedures for the Specialised Sector. 

Accountabilities

• Analysis of complex financial information and business models of LevFin, SLF, and Hedge Fund clients to assess their creditworthiness, repayment capacity, and potential risks. 
• Monitoring of the performance of the LevFin, SLF, and Hedge Fund portfolio, identifying and reporting early warning signs of potential credit deterioration. 
• Evaluation of the risk profile of each application considering factors like industry trends, borrower financials, collateral, and market conditions. 
• Documentation credit decisions and rationale in a clear and concise manner, adhering to internal audit and regulatory reporting standards. 
• Development and implementation of strategies to mitigate identified credit risks and optimise portfolio performance. 

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.