Who we are:
Triodos Bank is an award-winning organisation and one of Europe's leading sustainable banks, whose mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental, and cultural change. We offer a wide range of banking services for people who want to use their money consciously - from current accounts through to investments and savings. We only finance companies, organisations and projects that benefit people and the environment.
Our mission is -
- To help create a society that promotes people's quality of life and that has human dignity at its core.
- To enable individuals, institutions, and businesses to use money more consciously in ways that benefit people and the environment and promote sustainable development.
- To offer our customers sustainable financial products and high-quality service
We're a certified B Corporation, meaning that we are part of a community of businesses driving the shift to a new kind of economy, that is better for workers, better for communities and better for the environment.
The Opportunity:
We are delighted to be recruiting for a Team Manager - Lending Operations to join our growing Business Banking team at our Bristol Head Office on a 12-month fixed term contract basis. This role is available at both full time and 4 days per week (30 hours) and offers the benefits of a flexible hybrid working. Typically, this would require 2 days in our Bristol office per week, with a choice of working from home on the other days.
The overall purpose of this role is to provide vision and strategy for the ongoing development of Business Banking (BB) lending and technical operations in Triodos Bank UK. You will lead and manage our Lending Operations team to perform lending operations from the point at which credit approval is obtained through to pay-out, including the ongoing administration of all business lending on the banking system.
In addition, this role is responsible for managing continuous process improvement activity within the Lending Operations team to increase the effectiveness and reliability of both the Lending Operations team within BB, and the wider Business Banking team.
This role will actively contribute to departmental strategy activity, ensuring co-worker development and team processes align with strategy implementation.
This role is designated as a Certified Function within the Senior Managers and Certification Regime under the category "Significant Management" because the role as a direct report of a Senior Manager Function role in the UK has a high level of responsibility and autonomy of action within the authority delegated to it, which has the potential to cause "significant harm" to the firm or its customers.
What we are looking for:
To be successful in this role you must have extensive relevant experience of working in a loan/credit administration/lending operations function of a reputable bank/financial institution and specific experience with bespoke lending transactions. You will have solid knowledge of credit risk principles and practices combined with strong commercial awareness and understanding of the broader context within which the team operates.
You will have excellent people management and communication skills and will have successfully managed teams ideally within a technical lending environment.
Professional training or qualifications in a numerical/business-related discipline and/or in-house training on loan/credit administration would be desirable for this opportunity.
Knowledge of Loan product development e.g. loan syndications and agency role would also be advantageous for this role.
Triodos Bank is proud of its culture, ethos, and ability to make a positive change in society. It is therefore important that candidates evidence a strong commitment to Triodos Bank's core values of sustainability and transparency, as well as the personal qualities to live these values.
What we offer
In return for your hard work and expertise, you will receive a full-time equivalent salary of between £53,000 - £58,000 depending on experience, plus access to our extensive benefits package, where most of our benefits are non-contributory.
Our benefits include:
- Non-contributory pension scheme from your first day of 8% in year 1 and 10% from year 2 onwards
- Life Assurance (worth 4 times basic pay)
- Income Protection - 75% of basic pay after 13 weeks sick and following six months service.
- Private Medical Insurance with optional enhanced or HCP family coverage
- A Health Cash Plan
- Vitality Leave - After each 5 years of service, you will be able to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.
- 27 days (Full Time Equivalent) annual plus bank holidays per annum increasing to 30 days after 2 years' service.
- A buy and sell holiday scheme of up to 5 days (Full Time Equivalent) to maximum of 35 days.
- 5 days fully paid carers leave.
- A wellbeing allowance of £200 a year
- 1 Wellbeing Day
- Free yoga classes
- Co-worker retail discounts
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Refer a Friend scheme.
- Colleague recognition voucher scheme.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion and would therefore welcome applications for candidates from underrepresented and neurodiverse backgrounds. We value that receiving applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds is key in supporting our inclusive organisation to grow. We don't want to miss out on candidates who feel they don't exactly match the job description requirements, so if this is a role that sounds interesting to you, and you feel you could add value to the role please do apply. You could be exactly what we need!
Triodos reserve the right to close the vacancy once sufficient applications are received, so please do apply asap if this opportunity is of interest to you.
Closing Date: 11/08/2024