Associate Director - North Sales, BCB Markets

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JOB TITLE: Associate Director- North Sales, BCB Markets

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh or Glasgow

SALARY: Competitive Package

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of your time at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic with an interest in financial markets, and a knowledge of how both corporate and institutional businesses manage foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risk?

If so, Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) Markets are looking for suitable applications for an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious, diverse and proven team of regulated sales colleagues covering c.3,000 small and medium sized businesses. The right person will join a team that predominantly delivers the sales, execution and facilitation of market risk management transactions for SME and Mid Corporate clients, supporting these clients in key stages of their business lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Engage customers within our SME business to help them to enter market risk mitigating transactions

  • Deliver on complex transactions to support clients with more complex needs

  • Develop and deliver a plan to grow our Markets business across the area working with stakeholders across the business

  • Drive the roll-out of the Connected platform to our client base providing support to new users where required

  • Stay updated on political and economic events that affect markets and distribute market commentary to our customers

  • Develop a data driven approach to identifying businesses within the franchise that would benefit from discussions about market risk management

  • Contribute to regulatory and compliance processes, ensuring adherence to internal policies and external requirements in market risk management

  • Collaborate with internal partners, including coverage teams and product specialists, to drive cross-business opportunities

    • Why Lloyds Banking Group

    We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

    What You’ll Need

  • Experience of working within a Markets environment and delivering solutions for clients across FX, Interest Rate or Commodity products

  • Knowledge of financial markets and the drivers of changes of market levels

  • Understanding of the competitive market environment across all asset classes

  • Excellent interpersonal engagement and the ability to work effectively as part of a team

  • A passion for the markets and the communication skills to demystify these for customers while responding to economic and political events in real-time

  • A problem solver who can handle a range of tasks and priorities

    • About Working For Us

    Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

    We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

    We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

    We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

    We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

  • An annual performance-related bonus

  • Share schemes including free shares

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

    • If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

    This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks

    As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA’s Financial Services Register

    This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook

    The Person(“P”) performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1)P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2)those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm.

    If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.

    At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

    We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

    We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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    Location:
    Edinburgh
    Job Type:
    FullTime