CrawlJobs Logo

Director, Lending Specialist

sothebys.com Logo

Sotheby's

Location Icon

Location:
United Kingdom , London

Category Icon
Category:

Job Type Icon

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary Icon

Salary:

Not provided

Job Description:

You will be a core member of the SFS team responsible for loans originated in the UK and EMEA, promoting the SFS value proposition internally with colleagues and externally with clients. As a driven team player, you will serve in a priority growth area for Sotheby’s, expanding clients’ relationship with Sotheby’s and offering clients a key value-added financing service.

Job Responsibility:

  • Proactively source new lending opportunities by partnering with Sotheby’s relationship managers and other internal stakeholders
  • Analyze client’s needs and objectives through the review of qualitative and quantitative data, synthesizing an engagement strategy and initiating internal discussions about the opportunity
  • Develop pitch book presentations and proposals to explain industry trends, discuss client options and recommend innovative strategies to meet client goals
  • Tailor lending solutions to ensure that client’s needs are optimized for while meeting return and risk requirements
  • Participate in structuring and negotiating transactions, coordinating the preparation of lending documentation and transaction execution
  • As you progress in this role, you will build on a base of expertise to assume responsibility for client relationships and serve as the primary client liaison within SFS
  • Work collaboratively with executive management to identify and execute new growth initiatives
  • Partner with senior lending specialists to guide clients through the financing process
  • Participate in client negotiations from initial lead stage through final deal terms negotiation
  • Facilitate the creation of origination proposals and supporting financial analytics
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sotheby’s and SFS teams to ensure smooth processing and servicing of loans

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • MBA a plus
  • 5+ years of professional experience in a client-facing lending, wealth management, or similar role with a focus on sales and relationship building and management
  • Charisma, professional demeanor, and a natural ability to connect with others internally and externally
  • Solution-oriented and self-directed mindset and work approach with a bias towards action
  • Strong logical and analytical skills
  • Strong written and oral communication abilities

Nice to have:

  • Individuals with prior experience as relationship managers at major auction houses and galleries is a plus
  • Prior art experience is not required, but an interest or curiosity in art or other luxury objects is encouraged

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Job Link Share:
PREMIUM
More languages and countries
+ Unlock 31694 hidden job offers
Languages
English Čeština Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Français +15
Countries
United States United Kingdom India Canada Australia +
See plans
Plans from $2.99 / month

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Briefcase Icon

Similar Jobs for Director, Lending Specialist

Private Bank Underwriting & Portfolio Management Director

The Private Bank Underwriting & Portfolio Management Director is the executive r...
Location
Location
United States , Johnston; San Francisco; Boston; Westwood; New York
Salary
Salary:
238000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
citizensbank.com Logo
Citizens Bank
Expiration Date
May 31, 2026
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline
  • 10+ years of extensive executive-level experience in underwriting, portfolio management, or credit risk management across consumer, commercial, or private banking
  • Expertise across a broad range of credit types
  • from standardized consumer lending to highly bespoke commercial and specialty structures
  • Deep understanding of regulatory frameworks, risk governance, credit policy, and enterprise risk disciplines
  • People management experience and demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams and influence decisions across a complex, matrixed organization
  • Strong analytical capabilities, excellent communication skills, and executive presence
  • Proven track record of balancing business growth with disciplined credit judgment
  • Experience overseeing quality control, workflow prioritization, and timely completion of credit reviews, risk ratings, covenant monitoring, and annual reviews
  • Proven success designing or enhancing credit processes, monitoring frameworks, and policy initiatives
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Sets the strategic direction for underwriting and portfolio management across the Private Bank's full lending suite
  • Aligns credit analysis and decisioning tools with the Private Bank's credit policy, product procedures, and overall private bank strategy/service objectives
  • Works closely with Product Directors to ensure credit structures, policies, and portfolio strategies support product competitiveness and client needs
  • Plays a central role in Private Bank business planning, risk strategy, and strategic growth initiatives
  • Oversees underwriting quality, credit decisioning, and risk assessment across all consumer, specialty, and commercial lending solutions
  • Ensures consistency, fairness, and disciplined judgment across underwriting teams and product types
  • Establishes underwriting standards, due diligence frameworks, and approval protocols that align with regulatory expectations and business objectives
  • Provides senior level oversight and decision making on complex, bespoke, and high profile credit opportunities
  • Supports 1st line credit risk with ongoing portfolio monitoring and analytics across all Private Bank lending portfolios
  • Reviews credit performance, emerging trends, segment dynamics, concentration risk, and potential vulnerabilities
What we offer
What we offer
  • comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • maternity/paternity leave
  • flexible work arrangements
  • education reimbursement
  • wellness programs
  • annual discretionary bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Campus Director, Financial Aid

American Career College, we share a passion for students and transforming health...
Location
Location
United States , Ontario
Salary
Salary:
98454.61 - 142710.62 USD / Year
americancareercollege.edu Logo
American Career College
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 10 years customer service
  • 7 years financial aid experience
  • 5 years financial aid focused leadership experience
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited College or University.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Cultivating positive, supportive relationships within the Financial Aid team, including the Student Account Specialists
  • Working closely with lending institutions, guarantee agencies, and regulatory entities as well as building strong working relationships between other campus departments and university administration (UA)
  • Engaging, motivating, and building an effective team
  • Reacting and adjusting quickly to change and be able to develop practical ideas for dealing with issues while collaborating in a customer-focused manner with other campus departments like Admissions, Registrar and Student Affairs
  • Actively serving as a member of the campus management team, and the overall University financial aid leadership team
  • Overseeing the campus Student Account function
  • Monitoring enrollment and retention activities and goals and evaluates key indicators to forecast upcoming work volume and necessary resources.
What we offer
What we offer
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • flexible spending accounts
  • 401(k) match
  • paid time off
  • holidays
  • parental leave
  • tuition reimbursement
  • adoption assistance
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Industry Director

Location
Location
United Kingdom , London
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
barclays.co.uk Logo
Barclays
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Management of relationship teams, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of goals and objectives, oversight of efficiency and effectiveness
  • Development and maintenance of strong relationships with the broader Barclays group to promote seamless working across all channels and segments and to support an integrated business planning process
  • Management of all risk aspects including conduct and credit risk, ensuring all team members are fully compliant to enhance great customer outcomes
  • Monitoring the financial performance of relationship teams, including revenue, profitability, and cost control
  • Conducting thorough market research to understand client needs, market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify growth opportunities
  • Excellent service delivery to customers, consistently meeting their ongoing needs, while operating to required levels of cost
  • Actively promote a culture of greater diversity and inclusion plus develop talent and succession within the team
  • Development of strategic direction for relationship teams, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes
  • To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
  • Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Build and maintain relationships with customers, clients, stakeholders, and strategic partners
  • Drive business growth through effective relationship-building and delivering tailored solutions to meet client needs
  • Lead a team of UK Tech bankers (across London and various other regional centres in the UK) and design, execute and lead a strategy to increase market share, income and debit and credit balances into the UK Tech market
  • Work closely with other Tech specialist bankers across UKC and International Corporate Bank, Investment Banking, the business development function, Large Corporate Lending, Credit Risk, Portfolio, Product and Marketing
  • Lead Barclays’ face-to-market with key Tech sector professionals, investors, advisers, brokers and complementary funders to drive more opportunity and business to Barclays
  • Have attendance at, and contribution to, key sector events, publications in addition to Barclays-driven thought leadership
  • Contribute to key policy, including target market criteria
  • Develop the strategic direction for relationship teams, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes
What we offer
What we offer
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Hybrid working
  • Cycle or run to work - we’ve got everything you need – from cycle hire and parking areas to new showering and changing facilities
  • CoSpace is our drop-in co-working space, where networks are built, problems are solved collectively and our community is strengthened
  • Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy
  • Advanced trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Director, Banker, Corporate Banking

Senior Banker in Technology & Communications, Corporate Banking Japan. Senior-le...
Location
Location
Japan , Chiyoda, Tokyo
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
https://www.citi.com/ Logo
Citi
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 15+ years of experience in corporate banking, investment banking, or a related financial services role, with a significant focus on coverage of Japanese corporates, ideally within the Technology and Communications sectors
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • MBA or other advanced degree in Finance, Economics, or related field preferred
  • Fluent in both Japanese (native or business-level proficiency with kanji literacy) and English (business-level written and spoken)
  • Strong credit assessment skills with a proven track record of managing corporate credit portfolios
  • Deep understanding of corporate finance, accounting, financial modeling, and capital markets products
  • Solid understanding of the Technology and Communications sectors, including key industry drivers, business models, and financial metrics
  • Exceptional relationship management skills with a client-centric approach
  • Demonstrates strong balanced risk judgement
  • Candidate will be expected to begin preparations for selection into the Citi Senior Credit Officer elevation process upon coming into the role
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Serve as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of large Japanese corporate clients in the Technology and Communications sectors
  • Develop and maintain deep, strategic relationships with senior client executives (CFOs, Treasurers) to understand their business strategies, financial needs, and challenges
  • Act as a trusted advisor, providing insights into market trends, industry developments, and financial solutions
  • Identify and pursue new business opportunities within the existing client base and target prospects, focusing on deepening wallet share and cross-selling Citi's comprehensive product suite
  • Lead origination efforts for corporate banking products including, but not limited to, lending (term loans, revolving credit facilities), trade finance, global cash management, and foreign exchange
  • Work collaboratively with product partners (e.g., Investment Banking, Markets, Treasury and Trade Solutions) to deliver holistic solutions within the boundaries allowed by banking compliance
  • Lead the preparation and presentation of credit proposals, ensuring sound risk assessment and adherence to Citi's credit policies and procedures
  • Manage ongoing credit monitoring and annual reviews for the assigned client portfolio
  • Oversee the structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex financial transactions from origination to closing
  • Coordinate internal teams (legal, risk, in-business risk, operations, product specialists) to ensure seamless and efficient deal execution
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Compliance Manager

Monitor and analyze the organization's operational risk exposure, and contribute...
Location
Location
United States , Pittsburgh
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
raymondjames.com Logo
Raymond James
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree (B.A. /B.S.) and a minimum of six (6) years of experience in Compliance and/or the financial services industry preferred
  • Knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures of banking compliance reviews
  • Knowledge of rules and regulations of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), Federal Reserve System, and state banking regulatory agencies
  • Knowledge of principles of banking and finance related to commercial banking, deposits, and treasury management
  • Knowledge of financial markets and products
  • Knowledge of commercial lending
  • Skill in overseeing compliance programs
  • Skill in integrating and aligning compliance processes and procedures with business processes
  • Skill in coordinating complex compliance activities
  • Skill in providing support and guidance for compliance efforts
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Monitor and analyze the organization's operational risk exposure
  • Contribute to the development of operational risk policies
  • Analyze existing processes, procedures and systems and advise on improvements
  • Ensure firm policies and procedures are up-to-date and commensurate with the level of risk being mitigated
  • Lead large or multiple projects with significant scope and impact
  • Work independently on difficult assignments that are broad in nature requiring originality and ingenuity
  • Provide comprehensive solutions to vastly complex problems
  • Maintain extensive contact with internal customers to identify, research, analyze and resolve very complex issues related to commercial banking and consumer deposits
  • Oversee the compliance program(s) for an assigned business entity to ensure compliance processes and procedures are integrated and aligned with business processes
  • Coach, train, and mentor less experienced Compliance Specialists
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Literacy

As a Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Literacy, you will play a key role...
Location
Location
Australia , Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Port Macquarie, Wagga Wagga
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
csu.edu.au Logo
Charles Sturt University
Expiration Date
June 08, 2026
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • A doctoral qualification relevant to literacy or education, with a recognised teaching qualification
  • A strong record of high-quality teaching and student-centred learning
  • An established or emerging research profile aligned to literacy, curriculum or pedagogy
  • The ability to build productive partnerships and contribute to academic leadership
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead impactful literacy teaching and research
  • Teach across online and on-campus environments
  • Shape future teachers and education practice
  • Contribute to curriculum innovation
  • Build strong relationships with students and partners
  • Provide academic leadership in literacy education
  • Contribute to the School's research profile
  • Supervise higher degree research students
  • Actively engage with professional, community and government stakeholders
  • At Associate Professor level: significant academic leadership, research impact, and contribution to the broader discipline at national/international level
What we offer
What we offer
  • 17% superannuation
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Program Manager - Controls and Avionics Solutions

This position is based in Endicott, New York. New York and on-site work will be ...
Location
Location
United States , Endicott
Salary
Salary:
120874.00 - 205486.00 USD / Year
baesystems.com Logo
Baesystems
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering or manufacturing management, or other discipline
  • Demonstrated ability for building strong customer/ stakeholder relationships
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • Ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions
  • Highly adaptable with strong initiative
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams
  • Knowledge of the global aviation market and regulatory requirements and/ or military aviation market
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Maintaining strong customer relationships and leading a multidisciplinary team to execute complex development programs within schedule and budget
  • Leadership and management oversight of a project team assuring that project’s financials, schedule, and technical objectives are met and that the highest level of customer satisfaction is achieved while meeting all contractual commitments
  • Work effectively and collaboratively with Engineering, Operations, and all Program Office functional leadership to assure deliveries continue to exceed customer commitments and achievement of financial commitments to the company
  • Manages, coordinates, plans, organizes, controls, integrates, and executes projects within the Military Aircraft Systems portfolio
  • Participates in the support of new business and in the development of proposals
What we offer
What we offer
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Health savings accounts
  • 401(k) savings plan
  • Disability coverage
  • Life and accident insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Legal plan
  • Discounts on home, auto, and pet insurance
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Finance Business Partner (Research)

Full Time, Fixed Term (12 months). Level 7 - $101,421 to $110,819 p.a. (plus 17%...
Location
Location
Australia , Wagga Wagga
Salary
Salary:
101421.00 - 110819.00 AUD / Year
csu.edu.au Logo
Charles Sturt University
Expiration Date
June 02, 2026
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • A degree in Accounting or Finance (professional accounting body membership is desirable)
  • Experience in project budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis
  • Background in management accounting or business partnering within complex environments
  • exposure to government funding or higher education is advantageous
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively with academics and researchers
  • Familiarity with business intelligence systems and dashboard reporting
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Partner with academics to deliver strategic financial insights that enable research success
  • Directly influence world-class projects and decisions shaping the future of education and innovation
  • Lead initiatives that enhance financial governance, deliver accurate and timely reporting, and support key projects such as cost-pricing systems and research budgeting
  • Help build financial capability across the University, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement
What we offer
What we offer
  • Flexibility with a 35-hour work week
  • Access to hybrid work arrangements
  • 17% superannuation
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right