Head - Structured Real Estate & Infrastructure Finance

Job summary

This is a Senior Leadership Role in an established Structured Real Estate & Infrastructure Finance (SREIF) Origination Team Working directly with the Assistant Director of SREIF, Head of Risk and Head of Portfolio Management.

Job description

The job is a national role leading 1 team dedicated to Origination, consisting of c3/4 staff.

You will be expected to have a demonstrable track record of:

• Leading your team through complex debt transactions including Senior Debt and Mezzanine Finance (both bi-lateral & A/B Participation structures), multi-site facilities and corporate balance sheet lending.

• Negotiating Legal matters, including but not limited to Inter-creditor principles and LMA documentation

You will be joining highly skilled & experienced team of Banking professionals, who are committed to making positive change in how capital is deployed to both the benefit of the developers and the UK taxpayer in delivery much needed housing in support of our strategic plan to unlock investments and make the market more resilient.

The team is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, taking an innovative and creative approach to ensure delivery of National Housing Banks’ key objectives. We believe in working in a collaborative/flexible way to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This is a key strategic role within the NHB. The postholder must have excellent working relationships with a range of key partners including funders, equity investors, housebuilders together with sector professionals such as lawyers’ and advisory agents.

Person specification

As an experienced finance or real estate professional you'll be comfortable building and exploiting your network to originate new lending opportunities, analysing complex funding challenges, negotiating robust lending structures and effectively managing the progress of proposals through approval processes.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a loan origination team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced finance professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

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 European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available