Managing Director, Lending & Credit Transformation, Portfolio Management (Fintech)

TL;DR

Managing Director, Lending & Credit Transformation, Portfolio Management (Fintech): Leading the critical multi-year initiative to redesign the systems, data, and infrastructure supporting lending, credit, and risk distribution journeys, with an accent on evolving platforms and processes to support revenue growth at scale. Focus on improving speed, accuracy, and risk management for clients in the Corporate and Investment Banking business.

Location: Hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of our time, at our London office.

Company

hirify.global brings together leading expertise in transaction banking, debt financing, and risk management, serving some of the UK and Europe’s largest corporate clients.

What you will do

• Lead the Lending and Credit Transformation initiative, setting the strategy for the end-to-end infrastructure and technology required to support CIB’s growth.
• Define and implement a common data framework for lending and credit, including data standards, ownership, and sourcing.
• Create asset management functionality to strengthen risk distribution across SRTs, CRI, and third-party partnerships.
• Build enhanced Portfolio Management capability by integrating internal and external data to support better risk and position management.
• Oversee the implementation of recommendations from the Oliver Wyman review of our lending and credit journeys.
• Collaborate with senior partners across Operations, Credit, Risk, Platforms, and Finance to deliver a redesigned infrastructure which significantly improves efficiency, transparency, and our risk and control environment.

Requirements

• Deep experience in lending and credit with a strong understanding of products, risk, and client types.
• A proven ability to lead large-scale change across complex environments.
• Strong strategic planning skills with the ability to design and deliver a long-term platform vision.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills at senior levels.
• Solid working knowledge of technology platforms, operations, credit, and finance.
• A high-energy leader who thrives on challenge, inspires teams, and embraces ambitious transformation.

Culture & Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.