Homes England
Senior Manager – Monitoring Surveyor - Transaction Execution
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Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B1 2AX
Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH
Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN
Liverpool, North West England, L3 1BP
Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT
Salford, North West England, M3 5AX
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZ
Job Summary
Homes England is launching the National Housing Bank, a government-backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England.
With £16bn in capital, it will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up.
Job Description
The role holder will be responsible for supporting the Loans teams to complete loan due diligence and follow internal processes in order to execute real estate lending transactions, leading in their area of expertise with a background as a Monitoring Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor. This role will focus on supporting all loan teams including Development Finance, Complex (structured real estate and infrastructure lending).
There will be a requirement to interact with external stakeholders (customers, solicitors and monitoring surveyors) and internal stakeholders from numerous teams within the Investment Directorate. The role holder will bring their specialist skills to evaluate due diligence in line with Homes England risk policy.
The opportunity
Responsibilities Include:
- Maintain and manage relationships with external (panel) Monitoring Surveyor firms to ensure performance is consistent throughout the business and the appropriate level of skill and care is being adapted to the right transactions.
- Areas of specialty for this role include assessing Initial / Technical / Drawdown Reports produced by Monitoring / Quantity Surveyors.
- Advise the Transaction Execution team (and where relevant the Business Origination teams) on technical aspects of due diligence reports produced by panel appointed Monitoring Surveyors.
- Directly support the team with instructing Monitoring Surveyor reports, to ensure relevant due diligence reports are prepared that reflect the risk approved terms and the structure of the transaction.
- Ensuring that any other relevant reports (Environmental, Remediation, Archaeological, etc) are adequately reviewed by the appointed external Monitoring Surveyor.
- Critically review the instructions given to any other relevant professionals (whether by Homes England or the borrower) in regard to their professional report to ensure that an appropriate scope was given relative to the risks and the structure of the underlying transaction.
- Critically review the Monitoring Surveyor report, Construction Report and any other related reports, liaise with internal colleagues and external professionals to raise relevant questions and have these reports amended where required to appropriately reflect the underlying transaction and to mitigate any highlighted areas of risk. To seek advice where needed in relation to the transaction and the relevant report, liaise with internal teams such as Credit Risk to seek approval of the underlying Initial Monitoring Surveyors Report.
Person Specification
Candidate Profile
- Degree level qualification and/or equivalent experience within the Finance/Banking/Investment/Real Estate field.
- Significant Monitoring Surveyor experience or RICS registered quantity Surveyor.
- A strong understanding of residential property development and related property due diligence as well as the relevant risks of lending to residential developments (e.g. cost and planning risk).
- Significant experience of working in industry and/or a lending or equity environment.
- Excellent attention to detail, and ability to communicate effectively to internal stakeholders around relevant due diligence.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
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Homes England Benefits
- 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.
- Family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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Selection process details
How to apply?
To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
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.
Working for the Civil Service
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.
Further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a 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
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
Name : Rebecca
Email : Rebecca.nolan@weareams.com
Recruitment team
Email : psrpermapplications@weareams.com
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