Global Corporate Banking - Lending and Capital Strategy - Vice President

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