Loan Operations Team Lead Full Time

Loan Operations Team Lead – Ambitious Private Credit Platform

Location: London

The Company

• A growing, institutional private credit platform with a strong track record across direct lending and complex credit strategies
• Backed by sophisticated capital and operating at scale, with continued ambition to build out a best-in-class European platform
• A business combining entrepreneurial pace with institutional standards across governance, risk, and infrastructure
• Increasing deal complexity and transaction volume driving continued investment into operations and infrastructure

The Opportunity

• Working for a high-growth private credit manager, this is an opportunity to take true ownership of loan operations within a scaling platform
• This is a hands-on leadership role, sitting at the heart of the business, with responsibility for managing the full operational lifecycle of a diversified loan portfolio
• You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Investments, Finance, Treasury, and external providers, whilst overseeing outsourced servicing and ensuring institutional-grade operational standards
• With increasing deal complexity, secondary trading activity, and portfolio growth, this role offers the chance to build, shape, and scale a best-in-class loan operations function

Key responsibilities will include:

• Ownership of the end-to-end loan lifecycle: closing, funding, settlements, drawdowns, repayments, restructurings, and exits
• Oversight of primary and secondary loan settlements (including ClearPar), managing pipelines and resolving breaks
• Day-to-day management of third-party loan servicing providers, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and service quality
• Maintenance and integrity of portfolio data across systems (including eFront), ensuring robust reconciliations and controls
• Production and validation of asset-level analytics (IRRs, MoMs, portfolio metrics)
• Partnering closely with internal stakeholders to support deal execution, onboarding, and ongoing portfolio management
• Leading and developing a junior team member, with scope to grow the team over time
• Driving process improvement, automation, and operational scalability
• This is not a BAU role – this is an opportunity to own and evolve the function.

Your Experience

• You will be an experienced loan operations professional with a strong track record in private credit or leveraged finance environments.

More specifically:

• 7–12+ years’ experience across loan operations / middle office / credit operations
• Strong understanding of the loan lifecycle, ideally within private credit, syndicated loans, or direct lending
• Hands-on experience with loan settlements and trading platforms (ClearPar essential)
• Strong systems experience, ideally including eFront or similar portfolio management systems
• Experience overseeing third-party administrators / loan servicers
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced, growing environment
• Prior exposure to team leadership or mentoring