Associate Director, ECA

JOB TITLE: Associate Director, Export Credit Agency (ECA)
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least 3 days per week, or 60% of your time, in the office.

About this opportunity

We’re looking for an Associate Director to join our Transaction Banking Solutions team in a dynamic role focused on medium to long-term ECA related products across the Corporate and Institutional Coverage (CIC) space.

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven and entrepreneurial individual to help build and implement a CIC tailored ECA strategy. The role spans buyer credit across multiple ECAs, ECA project finance, untied ECA financing, aviation, UKEF EDG, and support for short-term ECA products. You’ll work closely with CIC sector teams, Infrastructure & Project Finance (I&PF), and lending execution teams to originate, structure, and deliver impactful ECA opportunities.

If you're passionate about customer engagement, strategic execution, and making a difference in global trade finance—this could be the role for you!

Your accountabilities will include:

• Support the CIC Export Finance origination activity (including bringing new to bank clients) and develop outstanding relationships with CIC corporate clients, sponsors, ECAs, other banks and advisors in direct engagement on all Export Finance activity.
• Ensure the successful structuring and execution of CIC ECA opportunities working seamlessly with teams across CIC in the execution of Export Finance transactions.
• Find opportunities with the Sector teams and pitch ideas to clients (financial information research and business feasibility analysis, early engagement with ECAs and preparation of client marketing materials) as well as through other ECA banks.
• Support ECA engagement in the financing of sustainability transactions and become a lead bank in ECA green financing supporting the energy transition.
• Support the origination and execution effort in I&PF for project finance advisory and financing of projects with ECA debt tranches.
• Develop strong internal connections, engaging with Product, Coverage, Credit, Asset Management, and Legal for strategic alignment.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What we need from you:

• ECA Expertise & Deal Execution: Proven experience with European, US, and/or Asian ECAs; consistent track record in leading ECA-backed transactions from origination to financial close, including negotiation of LMA documentation.
• Partner Engagement & Origination: Ability to build and manage relationships across ECAs, borrowers, exporters, and sovereigns; proactive in pitching and lead generation, with an existing network preferred.
• Technical & Regulatory Knowledge: Strong credit skills across corporate, sovereign, and hybrid structures; familiarity with financial models; deep understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Communication & Multitasking: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of juggling multiple transactions and shifting priorities with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Language & Travel: Willingness to travel for marketing and transactions; German or French language skills preferred but not essential.

About working for us!

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.