Lending Ops Team Lead

Join us as a Lending Ops Team Lead at Barclays, where you will play a pivotal role in leading and optimizing the banking operations. You will be assessed based on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, including a detailed understanding of the end-to-end lending process and its component functions. This involves areas such as Client, Relationship point, Credit, Post-sanction fulfillment, etc. Ideally, you should be a qualified MBA with experience in financial services, specifically focusing on Lending Operations. Your responsibilities will include team leading with a minimum team size of 5 members, along with previous experience in Corporate Case Management/Collateral related roles. You should have proven knowledge of Loan Systems (LIQ/ACBS) and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. Additionally, having good influencing, negotiation, and interpersonal skills is essential. You should be well-versed in corporate lending products and their life cycle across Coverage, Risk, and Lending Operations. Your role will involve understanding new product offerings, collaborating with product designing, legal, and coverage teams on tight deadlines to grasp product details, and training the team on process execution. You must demonstrate strategic and analytical abilities, adapt a flexible approach to work, cope with high variability of tasks, and build strong professional relationships with senior stakeholders. Furthermore, you are expected to excel in using Excel and PowerPoint, storyboard, and produce high-quality presentations. Your role will also require driving the team's agenda in large forums spread across various locations. Purpose of the role: To support Wholesale Lending with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution. Accountabilities: - Support day-to-day Wholesale Lending initiatives, including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution through lending technical expertise. - Monitor the bank's lending operations to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with regulatory requirements. - Collaborate with teams across the bank to align and integrate Wholesale Lending processes. - Identify areas for improvement, provide recommendations for change, develop and implement procedures and controls in Wholesale Lending. - Create reports and presentations on Wholesale Lending performance, communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders. - Identify industry trends, implement best practices in Wholesale Lending Services, and participate in projects to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. As an Assistant Vice President: You are expected to advise, influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and ensure operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions, lead a team, set objectives, coach employees, and demonstrate clear leadership behaviors. For individual contributors: Lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, identify new directions for projects, consult on complex issues, mitigate risks, develop new policies/procedures, and collaborate with other areas of work. All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.,