Senior Manager - Monitoring Surveyor - Transaction Execution in Leeds

Homes England is launching the National Housing Bank, a new government‑backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England. It has £16bn in capital and will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up.

The role holder will support the Loans teams to complete loan due diligence and follow internal processes in order to execute real estate lending transactions, leading in their area of expertise with a background as a Monitoring Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor. This role focuses on supporting all loan teams including Development Finance and Complex (structured real estate and infrastructure lending). Interaction with external stakeholders (customers, solicitors and monitoring surveyors) and internal stakeholders from numerous teams within the Investment Directorate is required. The role holder will bring specialist skills to evaluate due diligence in line with Homes England risk policy.

• Maintain and manage relationships with external (panel) Monitoring Surveyor firms to ensure performance is consistent and the appropriate level of skill and care is applied to the right transactions.
• Assess Initial/Technical/Drawdown Reports produced by Monitoring/Quantity Surveyors.
• Advise the Transaction Execution team (and where relevant the Business Origination teams) on technical aspects of due diligence reports produced by panel appointed Monitoring Surveyors.
• Directly support the team with instructing Monitoring Surveyor reports, to ensure relevant due diligence reports are prepared that reflect the risk‑approved terms and the structure of the transaction.
• Ensure other relevant reports (Environmental, Remediation, Archaeological, etc.) are adequately reviewed by the appointed external Monitoring Surveyor.
• Critically review instructions given to any other relevant professionals in regard to their professional report to ensure an appropriate scope was given relative to the risks and the structure of the underlying transaction.
• Critically review the Monitoring Surveyor report, Construction Report and any other related reports, liaise with internal colleagues and external professionals to raise relevant questions and have these reports amended where required to appropriately reflect the underlying transaction and to mitigate highlighted areas of risk.
• Where needed, seek advice in relation to the transaction and the relevant report, liaise with internal teams such as Credit Risk to seek approval of the underlying Initial Monitoring Surveyors Report.

• Degree level qualification and/or equivalent experience within the Finance/Banking/Investment/Real Estate field.
• Significant Monitoring Surveyor experience or RICS registered quantity Surveyor.
• Strong understanding of residential property development and related property due diligence as well as the relevant risks of lending to residential developments (cost and planning risk).
• Significant experience of working in industry and/or a lending or equity environment.
• Excellent attention to detail, and ability to communicate effectively to internal stakeholders around relevant due diligence.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.

• Help build a new national investment institution.
• Work on complex housing and regeneration transactions.
• Deploy £16bn of government‑backed capital.
• Hybrid 50/50 working across multiple national locations.
• Defined benefit pension and strong public‑sector benefits.

Contact point for applicants: Name: Ciara Lynn. Right to Work in the UK is required. Closing date: 1st June 2026.