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Associate Director, Syndicated Finance

London, England, United Kingdom | Hybrid
Permanent | Full time
Closing date:  Dec 3 2025

Associate Director, Syndicated Finance

  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Full time
  • Closing on: Dec 3 2025
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What is the opportunity?

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in enhancing our Originate-to-Distribute capabilities in line with the Corporate & Commercial Bank's strategic vision? We're looking for a dynamic professional to lead the charge in driving ratings excellence across capital structures and unlocking greater value in Broadly Syndicated Loan (BSL) trades.

This is your opportunity to influence deal economics, secure enhanced roles, and be at the forefront of strategic growth in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

In this role, you will:

  • Assessment of Corporate and Instrument Ratings for Capital Structures
  • Facilitating the relationship between Issuers and Ratings Agencies
  • Ability to lead the issuer through the ratings process and subsequent maintenance
  • Assessment, structuring and execution of European Leveraged Acquisition Finance trades.
  • Ensuring the highest standards of regulatory and risk compliance

What will make you stand out?

  • Significant experience of Capital structuring and Ratings Assessment in the European Leveraged Finance
  • Deal assessment and execution experience
  • Strong understanding of financial markets, financing structures and debt instruments

Essential qualifications

There are no minimum educational requirements for this role.

More about the team

Corporate & Commercial Banking Division combines all of the Banks business and corporate banking customers in one division alongside a range of market services in core markets of Republic Of Ireland, UK, USA and selective European offices.

The division consists of c1,100 colleagues serving all customer types from SMEs to national and international corporates alongside financial sponsors, with total lending in excess of €21bn.

Global Acquisition Finance is a €6.0Bn asset business providing a full range of debt facilities to support private equity sponsored leveraged financings. It is a core franchise business with c.100 staff. The business has a large geographic footprint with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Stamford and Chicago.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily at Gresham Street, London. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 26 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy along with working parent and carer supports.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us; we offer a substantial health insurance contribution, employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Flexible working matching promise

We know how important flexible working arrangements are to our colleagues and we promise to try to match your current flexible working arrangement in this new role (all existing working arrangements considered!)

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Key Competencies

  • Customer Focused - Self
  • Better together - Self
  • Be Decisive - Self
  • Take Ownership - Self
  • Manage Risk - Self

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

Your Journey, Our Support

We believe that embracing the perspectives of all of our employees is a value that connects us with our customers and our communities, and makes it an even better place to work. We're building an organisation that is welcoming to all, which enables our colleagues to thrive and reach their full potential. 

We are on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We have recently partnered with Auticon, to improve inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults.

Find out more

Our Gender Balance Network creates an inclusive space where colleagues of all genders can connect, learn from one another, and work together to achieve our gender balance objectives.

We support colleagues from all backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities. We want our colleagues to feel safe, included and experience a sense of belonging.

Our objective is to drive representation and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community, promote bringing your whole self to work, and increase visibility across locations, regionals and mediums.

Read more about Inclusion & Culture

Flexible Working

We’re committed to giving our colleagues the flexibility they need to thrive. Our hybrid working model is central to this approach, enabling more productive ways of working while supporting a healthier work-life balance.

For roles that offer hybrid working, we typically ask that colleagues spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person. Specific working arrangements will be confirmed with your recruiter to ensure they meet the requirements of the role and the team you will be joining. 

Hear how flexible working has helped Helen find the balance that works for her:

Our Benefits


Every job at Bank of Ireland comes with...

Pay & Perks

Competitive pay package
Premium pension contribution
Pay reviews & profit-share scheme
Financial wellbeing coaches
Excellent healthcare contributions

Work-Life Balance

23 days annual leave
Flexible leave: buy or sell your days
6 months paid maternity leave
Fertility and surrogacy policies
Working parent and carer supports

     
Career Growth

Support for professional qualifications  
Award-winning career framework
Clear pathways for development and progression

Hear what San San has to say:

"At Bank of Ireland there’s a range of development programmes and supports. That brings fresh opportunities and the chance to futureproof my career."

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