Director - Real Estate Credit Risk

About the role

Barclays is recruiting a Director for Real Estate Credit Risk in its UKCB Credit Risk team within Barclays International, based in London. The role acts as a Real Estate Credit Sanctioner, sanctioning within personal lending authority and leading key projects with a technology focus (models and regulation). It sits within the Compliance function, which ensures the bank meets regulatory requirements and follows its codes of conduct.

Key responsibilities

• Sanction real estate credit exposures within personal lending authority and present to senior sanctioners
• Lead key projects, particularly technology-focused ones such as models and regulation
• Manage and guide complex sanctions investigations, including escalation of customer screening true matches to the Business Aligned Sanctions Team
• Review escalated cases and confirm true matches in line with regulations and policy
• Carry out due diligence on payment screening alerts and sanctions alerts, following documented procedures and governance
• Identify opportunities to improve alert management and feed them back to the relevant teams
• Contribute to policy and procedures, advise senior management and committees, and escalate breaches of policy
• Manage a large team or sub-function, or lead organisation-wide projects as a deep technical expert

Required profile

• Experience with corporate and SPV real estate lending, credit analysis and stakeholder management
• Permanent contract
• Legal right to work in the UK; the role may be subject to enhanced governance and additional regulatory obligations

Required skills

• Corporate credit analysis
• Problem solving and decision making
• Analytical and numerate skills supporting corporate credit analysis
• Ability to challenge and structure proposals
• Communications, negotiation and presentation skills
• Desirable: attention to detail, IT/systems skills, inter-personal skills, awareness of banking legislation