AVP Wholesale Lending ops

Step into the role of AVP Wholesale Lending ops where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the lending lifecycle for mid and large corporate clients. In this critical role, you will manage complex lending cases from sanction to drawdown, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and client satisfaction. You will take ownership of your work, driving outcomes that align with regulatory standards, internal policies, and best practices. With competitive benefits and opportunities for career advancement, this is a great place to grow your career in the banking industry.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Manage a portfolio of larger business lending cases from submission to drawdown, including complex facilities like Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facilities (RCFs).

• Prepare facility and security documentation, order and evaluate property valuations, and conduct Fit to Lend checks and approvals.

• Execute drawdowns, limit marking, and ensure registration and perfection of collateral charges.

• Act as a resolution point between relationship teams and processing teams, owning issues through to resolution.

• Drive cases proactively to meet client timelines while adhering to regulatory, internal, and legal requirements.

• Coordinate and oversee activities within the team to ensure consistent delivery of objectives.

• Provide guidance and support to colleagues on complex cases and operational best practices.

• Lead and contribute to key change projects aimed at improving processes, systems, and client experience.

Desirable skills sets:

• Collaborate with internal teams (credit, product, coverage, servicing) to ensure seamless completion of high-value drawdowns.

• Provide expert support and advice to Credit Managers and Relationship Directors/Managers, safeguarding the bank’s position.

• Maintain accuracy and efficiency across manual and automated processes, performing checker and maker activities on medium and complex work types.

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, suggesting enhancements to systems and processes and evaluating risks and benefits.

• Stay updated on regulatory developments and assist in implementing necessary changes.

• Foster a culture of collaboration and accountability within the team.

• Monitor progress and help resolve operational bottlenecks to achieve business goals.

• Drive transformation initiatives and support implementation of strategic projects.

You may be assessed on key essential skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Noida.

Purpose of the role

To support Wholesale Lending with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support with day-to-day Wholesale Lending initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution through lending technical expertise.
• Monitoring the bank’s lending operations to ensure that they are conducted in an efficient and effective manner and comply with relevant regulatory requirements.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate Wholesale Lending processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations for change in Wholesale Lending processes.
• Development and implementation of Wholesale Lending procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on Wholesale Lending performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in Wholesale Lending Services.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve Wholesale Lending efficiency and effectiveness.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.