AMS PSR

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Client Relationship & Credit Manager x 2 (Inside IR35) for a 6 months contract based Hybrid - 1 day a month attendance to London or Swindon and ad-hoc travel for client meetings.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Client Relationship & Credit Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Ensure, manage and develop sustainable relationships with an allocated Innovate UK Loans portfolio.
• Complete periodic assessments of portfolio risk profile, reviewing quarterly management information and reporting any changes required to customer credit grading.
• Work in conjunction with external Monitoring Officers to ensure loan funds are being appropriately utilised on designated projects, facilitating any Project or Drawdown Change Requests required.
• Manage default and recovery scenarios, working with third party professional services firms as appropriate, including lawyers, accountants, and administrators.
• Responsible for ongoing reporting to the Head of Portfolio on performance, progress, and issues.
• Work collaboratively across the wider IUK Loans function including Credit, Portfolio and Lending Operations teams.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement cycle for all portfolio management activities, exemplifying a culture of self-reflection, critical analysis and action.

Essential:

• Experience in the financial services sector, with an understanding of both operational processes and the delivery of lending/investment activities.
• Experience of managing effective client relationships.
• Understanding of key financial metrics and ability to analyse financial statements including balance sheets, P&L and cash flow statements, preferably from a credit risk perspective.
• Experience in managing to KPIs within in a tightly controlled environment.
• A team player, with the ability to lead by example and collaborate effectively
• Experience of administration and recoveries processes.
• Experience of working with public funds, including managing public money
• contexts.
• Spotting and mitigating credit risks
• Generating and presenting reports at Board level

Desirable:

• Educated to degree-level and/or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline.
• Financially-minded and risk aware

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".