Senior Manager - Transaction Execution (Development Finance)

Job summary

Homes England is launching the National Housing Bank, a government-backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England.

With £16bn in capital, it will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up.

Working within the Transaction Execution team, you will lead the successful delivery of residential development finance transactions from Credit Approval through to Contract. The role is responsible for managing documentation, due diligence and stakeholder engagement, ensuring transactions are executed in line with approved terms, policies and risk standards. You will work closely with internal teams and external advisers to identify and mitigate risks, maintain execution quality and support the delivery of new homes through effective management of development finance loans.

Job description

The opportunity

Responsibilities include:

• Lead residential development finance transactions from Credit Approval through to Contract execution.

• Manage and coordinate legal documentation, due diligence and transaction workflows, ensuring deadlines and budget requirements are met.

• Liaise with internal teams, Borrowers, Lawyers, Valuers, Monitoring Surveyors and other professional advisers to drive transactions to Contract.

• Review and challenge valuation reports, legal opinions and other specialist due diligence to identify and mitigate risks.

• Prepare and manage transaction approval documentation, variance reports and handover materials for Portfolio Management.

• Maintain accurate transaction records, track key milestones and proactively manage borrower relationships throughout the execution process.

Person specification

Candidate profile

• Significant experience working with SME developers, executing residential development finance or real estate lending transactions.

• Strong understanding of development finance structures, loan documentation and security arrangements.

• Proven experience negotiating legal and commercial contracts within a lending or real estate finance environment.

• Ability to assess complex due diligence, including valuations, legal and monitoring surveyor reports, and challenge findings where necessary.

• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to identify, evaluate and mitigate lending and transaction risks.

• Proven ability to manage multiple transactions simultaneously, prioritising workloads and driving deals through to Contract within agreed timelines.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working effectively with borrowers, advisers, legal teams and senior internal stakeholders.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

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Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and