Jobs at Shawbrook Bank

Leads leveraged finance and financial sponsor lending activity, including transaction origination, structuring, execution, credit analysis, financial modeling, due diligence, negotiations, and risk management. Manages sponsor and intermediary relationships, prepares pitches and credit papers, presents to credit committees, supports legal completion, mentors junior staff, and ensures regulatory and compliance standards are maintained.

Leads leveraged finance transactions supporting UK SME acquisitions and growth by private equity sponsors. Responsibilities include financial analysis, modeling, due diligence, credit paper preparation, transaction structuring, negotiation, risk mitigation, legal documentation, relationship management, business origination, and credit committee presentations. The role also mentors junior staff, supports compliance and governance, manages sponsor and intermediary relationships, and contributes to profitability, return on capital, and high-quality lending outcomes.

Prepares accurate regulatory returns for the PRA, FCA, Bank of England, and EBA, including COREP and FINREP. Reviews reporting data, supports automation and process improvements, enhances data quality, maintains documentation, and collaborates with Finance, Risk, Treasury, Technology, and other stakeholders to meet regulatory deadlines and evolving reporting requirements.

Leads leveraged finance transactions for private equity-backed UK SMEs, including financial analysis, modeling, credit papers, due diligence, negotiation, execution, and risk management. The role manages sponsor and intermediary relationships, originates new business, presents transactions to credit committees, supports regulatory compliance, and mentors junior team members.

Manage broker and introducer relationships across the North East UK, driving regional commercial lending production, partner development, pipeline conversion, and strategic growth. Responsibilities include recruiting and training intermediaries, communicating lending decisions, analyzing market and competitor intelligence, supporting marketing campaigns, developing product feedback, and representing the bank at networking events. The role requires strong commercial mortgage knowledge, financial analysis skills, compliance awareness, and extensive field sales experience in financial services.

Leads the in-life management of a financial sponsors portfolio within Structured Finance. Responsibilities include executing and amending lending transactions, preparing credit submissions, presenting to credit committees, monitoring portfolio performance, analyzing financial statements and forecasts, conducting covenant and risk analysis, managing client relationships, supporting restructures and enhancements, ensuring regulatory compliance, and mentoring junior staff.

Own the product roadmap and detailed behavior of Shawbrook’s Customer and Accounts platforms. Define API contracts, customer data rules, account lifecycles, integration standards, requirements, and acceptance criteria. Balance reliability, capability, migration, regulatory controls, and stakeholder priorities. Collaborate closely with engineers, consuming product squads, Operations, Finance, Data, Legal, and Risk teams. Lead platform migrations, testing, UAT, product sign-off, and communication of strategy to senior leadership.

Own payments product streams end to end during a 12-month maternity cover, managing two squads and maintaining product roadmaps, backlogs, supplier relationships, regulatory alignment, and business cases. Partner with Engineering, Compliance, Finance, Commercial, and Customer Success to prioritize initiatives, deliver customer and business value, and ensure continuity across payments products.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and improving application software using Agile methodologies. The role includes developing new features, resolving complex issues, creating automated tests, supporting deployments and production monitoring, documenting changes, participating in planning and refinement, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers. The engineer will collaborate with QA, support, IT management, delivery teams, vendors, and business stakeholders while adhering to technical standards and considering performance and security requirements.

Supports the Head of Controls and Controls Testing Team by using data analytics to assess, monitor, and strengthen bank-wide internal controls. Performs control testing, identifies design and operational gaps, supports RCSA and risk decisions, reduces duplication and manual effort, and explores systemisation and AI integration. The role also develops repeatable data-driven insights, normalises data, assesses variances, and communicates improvement opportunities to stakeholders.

Supports the Head of Controls and Controls Testing Team by managing risk and control issues, reviewing closure evidence, prioritizing issues, supporting RCSA and control testing, conducting root cause analysis, and identifying thematic improvements. The role also enhances risk processes through systemization, reduced manual effort, and potential AI integration while providing structured reporting and stakeholder challenge across the bank.

Leads a team of Financial Crime Specialists responsible for transaction monitoring, screening, alert management, CDD and EDD. Owns workflow, quality, SLAs, backlog and complex-case escalations while coaching staff and strengthening procedures. Uses MI and trend analysis to identify risks and capacity issues, supports continuous improvement and automation, and guides the team through transition to the FCOP operating model. Partners with business, operations, investigations and second-line stakeholders to maintain robust financial crime controls.

Own the BAU IFRS9 process, produce and validate monthly outputs, develop and test model changes, maintain documentation and change logs, investigate model performance and movements, and support credit analysis and stakeholder queries. The role requires production-quality SAS and Python coding, credit risk reporting, impairment or capital modeling knowledge, and the ability to communicate analytical results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Build and operate Python-based tools, data pipelines, analytical models, dashboards, and AI/ML solutions for Finance. Partner with Finance users to automate reporting, reconciliations, controls, and workflows. Deploy solutions on Azure using secure, governed software engineering practices, CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation. Collaborate with Data Engineering, Technology, and Risk teams while coaching Finance colleagues on Python, automation, and data tooling.

Lead product discovery and delivery across the Retail Savings lifecycle, including originations, retention, online banking, and colleague experiences. Identify customer and operational needs, define requirements and prioritized backlogs, guide regulatory change, and collaborate with engineering, design, data, operations, risk, legal, and pricing teams. Use customer insights and performance data to simplify workflows, improve digital experiences, and deliver continuous improvement.

Develop and support IBM TM1 and Planning Analytics models, cubes, dimensions, hierarchies, TI processes, reports, dashboards, and finance workflows. Partner with Finance stakeholders to translate planning and reporting needs into reliable solutions. Administer the platform, including security, performance tuning, upgrades, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and data governance. Provide user support and training while ensuring solutions meet regulatory and change-management requirements.

Senior Credit Manager in the 2nd Line of Defence overseeing credit risk for Commercial Investment Real Estate, Specialty Finance and Asset Based Lending. Chairs credit approval committee, holds delegated lending authority, manages and develops a sector-focused credit risk team, monitors portfolio performance, ensures policy compliance, prepares committee papers, and drives process improvements and quality assurance across 1st and 2nd Line credit activities.

Manage a technical Decision Science team to own the BAU IFRS9 process, produce and validate monthly outputs, develop and test model/code changes, maintain documentation and change logs, investigate model performance and support credit analysis and stakeholder queries.

Provide analytical support to the Models & Analytics Manager: deliver data analytics for credit decisioning models, produce credit risk reporting packs, champion credit data quality, support Credit Risk reporting and ad hoc projects, and manage Impairment monthly controls and oversight.

Own the vulnerability lifecycle: scanning, triage, prioritisation, remediation coordination and closure. Manage patch schedules across on‑prem and cloud servers, endpoints, network devices and 3rd‑party apps. Track SLAs, report KPIs, support audits/compliance, liaise with vendors, and escalate critical/zero‑day issues. Improve tooling and automation to speed remediation.