Head - Structured Real Estate & Infrastructure Finance


Homes England
Company 
Location 

Leeds

Employment Hours 

New Jobs

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£69,831 - £93,055 a year

Job Highlights
  • Lead a team in the Origination of complex debt transactions, negotiating legal matters and ensuring delivery of National Housing Bank's objectives.
  • Seeking a candidate with strong leadership skills and extensive experience in structured finance, debt transactions, and negotiation.
  • Position based in Leeds with flexible full-time hours, offering a competitive salary and opportunities for strategic impact in housing finance.
Job Requirements/Description

Details

Reference number

475439

Salary

£69,831 - £93,055
GBP

Job grade

Other

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Corporate Finance
Finance

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

3

Contents

  • Location
  • About the job
  • Benefits
  • Things you need to know
  • Apply and further information

Location

As we are headquartered in Leeds our preference is to appoint to this location and priority will be given to applicants based within commuting distance of the Leeds office.

About the job

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

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

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.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

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 here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Rebecca Nolan
  • Email : Rebecca.nolan@weareams.com

Recruitment team

  • Email : psrpermapplications@weareams.com
Homes England
Company 
Location 

Leeds

Employment Hours 

New Jobs

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£69,831 - £93,055 a year

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