Help shape how we deploy capital to support clients while protecting the firm and strengthening returns. In this role, you will sit close to coverage and product teams and bring a portfolio-informed point of view to lending decisions before they are made. You will influence how we structure, price, and prioritize opportunities across the balance sheet. If you enjoy translating complex constraints into clear recommendations that improve outcomes, this is a chance to make visible, measurable impact.

Job summary

As a Vice President in Lending and Capital Strategy, you will be a strategic advisor to coverage and product teams, helping us deploy balance sheet capacity with discipline, speed, and strong risk governance. You will translate portfolio dynamics, regulatory capital considerations, and market signals into practical structuring recommendations that improve execution quality and capital efficiency. You will partner closely with colleagues across banking coverage, product, portfolio management, treasury, funding, and credit risk in a collaborative, execution-oriented culture.

Job responsibilities

• Advise deal teams on lending structure, capital efficiency, pricing considerations, and capacity deployment across credit products
• Translate regulatory capital and leverage considerations into practical, deal-level structuring recommendations
• Apply portfolio constraints to client strategy, product positioning, and approval planning
• Synthesize portfolio trends, concentrations, and emerging credit signals into forward-looking priorities
• Recommend actions to grow, slow, re-underwrite, or reposition exposures based on portfolio, client, and revenue considerations
• Partner with coverage, product, portfolio management, treasury, funding, and credit risk teams to align decisions to shared priorities
• Prepare clear, decision-ready materials for underwriting forums, credit committees, and limit discussions
• Set capacity priorities that guide limit setting, approval sequencing, and committee positioning
• Translate portfolio insights into hedging priorities and exposure actions, and coordinate with relevant partners to support execution
• Use advanced analytics to accelerate structuring analysis, scenario review, and portfolio surveillance
• Define scalable standards, tools, and training that improve consistency of execution, and mentor junior professionals

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Demonstrated experience in credit markets, lending, capital strategy, or portfolio management within a large financial institution
• Working knowledge of UK and international bank capital and leverage frameworks and how they affect lending structures and returns
• Demonstrated ability to translate regulatory and capital constraints into deal-level and portfolio-level actions
• Strong credit risk analytics skills, including the ability to interpret portfolio performance, concentrations, and early warning signals
• Hands-on experience working with large, complex datasets to generate actionable insights
• Ability to communicate clearly and credibly with senior stakeholders across coverage, product, treasury, and credit risk
• Familiarity with credit and interest rate hedging concepts and common instruments used for risk management
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Master of Business Administration, Chartered Financial Analyst, Financial Risk Manager, or equivalent advanced credential
• Experience in a business-adjacent role such as credit trading, loan capital markets, portfolio management, or capital management
• Applied experience using advanced analytics or artificial intelligence to improve decision-making in financial services