Homes England
Head - Transaction Execution (Structured Real Estate Finance)
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Our new Headquarters are in Leeds but colleagues can be based in any of our offices (Leeds, London, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Northstowe).
Job Summary
The role of the Transaction Execution team is to project manage Complex Structured Real Estate lending transactions from Credit Approval through to completion. This will require working closely with borrowers, lender counterparties, legal advisors, valuers, monitoring surveyors, senior leadership and key internal stakeholders to drive transactions from initial term sheet through to completion, ensuring transactions are progressed in an efficient and concise manner.
This team has the appetite and resources to shape the future of housing investment in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose, whilst applying robust governance processes around capital allocation.
We will do this through the various interventions the National Housing Bank will offer including Loans, Equity and Guarantees products. These leverage wider investment to achieve outcomes that are a significant multiple of the Agency’s participation.
Job Description
Working in a team with transaction execution specialists, focussing on Complex Real Estate transactions (both structured real estate and infrastructure lending), the Head of Transaction Execution will play a critical role in delivering the larger and more complex deals and initiatives within the Investments Directorate at Homes England. You will be joining a senior leadership team to help build a team of Transaction Execution specialists to support the Structured Real Estate Finance and Infrastructure teams, helping them to deliver their products.
This is a rare chance to shape the future Loans team into a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional Transaction Execution team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective completion of lending facilities and the have the opportunity to create an autonomous TE team.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in shaping our delivery processes, systematically improving the way we conduct due diligence and execute contracts. Working with Borrowers, internal stakeholders and Loans’ colleagues, you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective execution of Development Finance projects post-approval, followed by a streamlined handover to Portfolio Management. The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects within Loans. There are some exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to our diligence process.
We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within our teams, and therefore welcome applicants from a broad range of backgrounds.
Person specification
You will have extensive experience working in a real estate development lending environment, ideally focused on the residential/living sector. You will be able to navigate complex legal, financial and operational aspects of real estate lending. Your commercial mind set will enjoy problem solving and your strong attention to detail and ability to work as part of a team to deliver positive outcomes on Complex debt transactions will be invaluable.
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You will have team management experience and strong project management skills. You will manage both your and your team’s deadlines and work collaboratively and constructively under pressure.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and proficient in managing stakeholders at all levels and your discussions will always be framed by a detailed understanding of the commercial and operational impacts of what we do as a wider Loans team. You will thrive on developing new ways of working as you seek out efficiencies, working in a collaborative way to contribute to the achievement of your team’s ambitious goals.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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) (opens in a new window)
- 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
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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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in a new window).
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
- Name : Rebecca Nolan
- Email : rebecca.nolan@weareams.com
Recruitment team
- Email : psrpermapplications@weareams.com
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