Head - Complex Transactions

Head - Complex Transactions

Why now?

This is an exciting time to join Homes England, the government’s housing delivery Agency. We have the resources, influence, and diverse expertise to drive positive market change through our significant investment activity. The government has put housing at the heart of its agenda and the Agency is at the forefront of that commitment with a mission to intervene in the market to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need to improve affordability. Homes England will make this sustainable by creating a more resilient and diverse housing market, with a focus on quality.

To help achieve this aim, government has committed over £20 billion of capital to be invested and managed through Homes England. This includes direct lending, equity investment, guarantees, land assembly and the biggest affordable home building programme in a generation.

A bit about the role...

This is a Senior Leadership Role in an established Structured Real Estate Finance (SREF) Origination Team Working directly with the Assistant Director of SREF, Head of Risk and Head of Portfolio Management.

The job is a national role leading 1 team dedicated to Origination, Structuring and Transaction Execution, consisting of c6 staff. This position will play a critical role in Loans, responsible for deploying c£700m from the LUHBF. 

You will be expected to have a demonstrable track record of: -

Leading your team through complex debt transactions including Senior Debt and Mezzanine Finance (both bi-lateral & A/B Participation structures), multi-site facilities and corporate balance sheet lending.

Negotiating Legal matters, including but not limited to Inter-creditor principles and LMA documentation

You will be joining highly skilled & experienced team of Banking professionals, who are committed to making positive change in how capital is deployed to both the benefit of the developers and the UK taxpayer in delivery much needed housing in support of our strategic plan to unlock investments and make the market more resilient.

The team is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, taking an innovative and creative approach to ensure delivery of Homes England’s key objectives. We believe in working in a collaborative/flexible way to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This is a key strategic role within the Investments directorate. The postholder must have excellent working relationships with a range of key partners including funders, equity investors, housebuilders together with sector professionals such as lawyers’ advisory agents. 

 A bit about you…

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You'll be comfortable leading your team supporting the origination of complex lending structures. 

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an Origination team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced Banking professional, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Who are we? 

Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market. 

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, we are committed to hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.  

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We were all working from home during the pandemic and have since moved to a hybrid model, moving back into our office environments and utilising our space and time together in the most conducive way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.