Real Estate Credit Risk Sanctioner

As a Credit Sanctioner within the Real Estate Credit Team at Barclays International UK Corporate Bank, you will be responsible for all Real Estate UK Corporate and SPV lending. Your role will involve sanctioning credit proposals within your delegated discretion and presenting to higher-level sanctioners when necessary. Key responsibilities include approving credit proposals, identifying adverse trends in client credit profiles, and ensuring timely referrals to Watchlist/Special Asset Management.

You will support the team by providing portfolio and management information, liaising with support functions such as Portfolio, Legal, Compliance, and Lending Operations, and attending credit-focused client calls and meetings. Maintaining effective relationships with key business and risk stakeholders is crucial, as is supporting strategic and systems changes, and contributing to projects aimed at enhancing process efficiency and regulatory compliance. You will apply the highest standards of controls and risk management, ensuring appropriate credit grading and adherence to policies. Additionally, you will support colleagues to improve risk culture and engagement, including mentoring, personal development, and colleague recognition.

 To be successful as a Real Estate Credit Sanctioner, you should have experience with:

•    Corporate credit analysis skills with considerable analytical and numerical abilities to challenge and structure proposals.
•    Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
•    Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
•    Proven credit sanctioning experience, particularly with ordinary office-type applications.

 Some other highly valued skills may include:

•    Experience in credit sanctioning within the real estate sector, recognizing its differences from corporate sanctioning.

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 is located from our London office.  

Purpose of the role

To assess and approve/decline credit applications based on established credit policies, risk appetite, and regulatory requirement and analysing financial information, evaluating creditworthiness, and recommending credit terms and conditions to ensure responsible lending practices.

Accountabilities

• Analysis of lending  applications, financial statements, credit reports, and other relevant documents to assess the borrower's creditworthiness and repayment capacity. 
• Monitoring the performance of approved lending , identifying potential risks and early warning signs of delinquency. 
• Evaluation of the risk profile of each application considering factors like industry trends, borrower financials, collateral, and market conditions. 
• Provision of independent credit decisions on lending  applications, adhering to established credit policies, risk parameters, and regulatory requirements. 
• Development and implementation of appropriate course of action for troubled lending , including workout plans, restructuring, or collections. 

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.