Director - Venture & Growth Debt Finance - Climate & Deep Tech Sectors (12mth fixed term contract)

Who is HSBC Innovation Banking?

HSBC Innovation Banking is the power behind the UK’s forward-thinkers, future-makers, and leap-takers, helping them ignite the bold ideas that reshape our world. We offer flexible banking solutions for start-ups, scale-ups, growth businesses, investors and those working towards IPO typically within the technology and life science sectors.

Whether it’s comprehensive banking, managing cashflow, plans for buyouts or Strategic Fund Solutions, we power ideas at every stage of their journey. From the first-time founders to the funds that back them, and everything in between. We're proud to accelerate growth for our clients, create meaningful connections and communities, and open a world of global opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.

Here’s to never standing still. Come and join us!

The value you’ll add:

As a Director, you’ll work closely with the Climate and Deep Tech Debt Finance sector head to drive the credit risk profile of the sectors, strategic direction, and people leadership.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leads the due diligence, underwriting, structuring and negotiation of the most complex, most sizeable or highest profile lending opportunities

- Partners with the Global Relationship Management teams to provide debt structures that meet the needs of prospects and existing portfolio companies

- Responsible for allocating the right resources to each existing borrower within the portfolio as well as to each new opportunity in the loan pipeline

- Provides oversight and takes ownership for the credit health of the portfolio and pipeline with ultimate responsibility for both. Responsible for active and continuous risk monitoring and management within the loan portfolio.

- Remains abreast of market, sector and competitive trends, playing a key role in supporting origination activities with both investors and prospect companies

- Contributes to the strategic development of the Venture & Growth Debt Finance business working with executive management and key stakeholders to develop lending strategy and policy to drive intelligent growth in our lending products.

What you can expect to be doing:

- Lead complex debt deal opportunities working with more junior deal team members and take responsibility for the overall loan portfolio (monitoring performance, proactively engaging over deteriorating credit situations and managing live borrower requests)

- Works with and meets regularly with key stakeholders to determine business needs and developments to ensure that the Debt Finance & internal Graduate Program strategy remains aligned and relevant

- Devote a material portion of time to team members, listening to feedback and providing coaching and guidance mentorship to both direct and indirect reports

- Responsible for delivery of credit & lending training solutions, including facilitating sessions and arranging with business partners and partner vendors

- Reviews workflows and processes across the team within our credit approval processes, and seeks to drive enhancements and efficiencies working with stakeholders and challenging convention where required

- Significant time devoted to tactical and strategic projects that will drive intelligent lending growth and improvements in quality, consistency, and accuracy of work and output

Requirements:

- Ability to confidently lead structuring, due diligence, and negotiations with clients in the Venture and Growth lending segments

- Highly skilled at loan structuring, negotiating, final closing, and handling the most complex debt financing solutions to meet client needs

- Preferable experience with working capital-oriented debt structures, both term loans and revolving line of credit loan product types

- Preferable experience with various asset-backed debt structures (i.e., equipment financing/leasing, project and/or infrastructure finance, inventory financing, or receivables financing, etc)

- Skilled at proactively managing large and complex portfolio of existing borrowing relationships

- Able to listen, build consensus and then implement intelligent lending strategies to facilitate sustainable growth

- Ability to coach and develop less experienced staff members, enabling them to show improved efficiency and effectiveness. Ability to articulate clear and concise feedback.

- Ability to leverage internal AI application tools and work daily in an “AI enabled” manner to drive timeline efficiencies and to reduce the length of processes

Where you’ll be based:

Our home office in Finsbury Square, London. We offer hybrid working to our employees, so you can flex between home and the office, with a current requirement to be in the office 2 days per week

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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