Associate Director, Acquisition Finance & Venture Debt

Business Unit: Group Commercial Salary Range: GBP45,936 - GBP68,904 per annum DOE + red-hot benefitsLocation: England - London Contract Type: Permanent

Your next adventure starts here

Our TeamExciting opportunities exist within our Strategic Finance team. If you're passionate and ambitious about playing a key role in helping shape and grow our business, maximising return / reward for risk across the bank's business portfolio, then please read on.We are looking for dynamic people, who are ready to make a real difference to a successful and expanding team. In return, we'll encourage and reward you, helping you deliver first class customer service, while building a successful career.

What you'll be doing

• Being a vital member of the Acquisition Finance and Venture Debt teams, working on new transactions, from initial early stage through to execution
• Liaising effectively with prospective customers, existing customers, professional investors such as PE and VC funds, debt advisers, other KBIs and Credit to originate and execute new lending opportunities
• Assessing and analysing new lending opportunities
• Preparing detailed credit applications including the building of financial models and sensitivity scenarios
• Instructing, completing and processing internal and external documentation to ensure loan and security documentation is properly prepared and due diligence is correctly scoped
• Displaying strong organisational skills and effective project management within tight deadlines, and ability to influence and collaborate with key internal stakeholders
• Developing and expanding your own network of internal and external contacts

We need you to have

• Excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, including knowledge of Syndicated and Acquisition/Leveraged finance transactions
• Ability to understand and interpret financial statements and due diligence
• Advanced Excel financial modelling skills
• Knowledge of Acquisition/Leveraged Finance loan and security documentation
• Commitment to consistently provide high standards of work with outstanding attention to detail
• Knowledge of bank systems and processes in relation to customer-facing systems, Treasury Operations, risk and credit

It's a bonus if you have but not essential

• A relevant vocational financial services qualification e.g. Chartered Banker
• Understanding of risk and compliance requirements in line with the role
• A knowledge of the Bank's lending and securities policy and procedures

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part-Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension and free private medical cover
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin MoneyWe're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, 'Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin MoneyOur purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

Now the legal bitLiving A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.