JOB PURPOSE:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our northern based Debt team, with the addition of an Investment Associate. You’ll be supporting the team with investing into businesses from our NPIF Debt Fund, in the Yorkshire and Humber region and looking to grow your career with us.

While we see this vacancy as a full-time position, we know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, so we have a Hybrid working policy in place which allows for core hours and some homeworking during the working week. You would be expected to be fully mobile and travel to other Mercia offices and investee companies as required.

In this role you would have responsibility for:

• Supporting with the completion of investments including preparation of investment documentation. management of the due diligence process, AML documentation and coordination of the legal agreements.
• Ensuring that service level standards and turnaround times are always met.
• Ensuring that regulatory and customer requirements are always complied with.
• Preparing internal and external reports to key stakeholders.
• Initially with support if needed, you will be identifying, selecting and appraising suitable investment loans, to achieve annual investment targets for the fund.
• Supporting the investment team in its business development activities, to self-generate proposals, build new relationships and actively promote the fund.
• Supporting the post-investment monitoring of investments.

About you:

• Ideally you will be from a lending and/or regulatory background.
• While there will be support from the team to get up to speed, you’ll be a self-starter, with the ability to multi-task.
• You’ll be commercially aware and able to demonstrate a sound level of judgment.
• You’ll have strong analytical skills, with a high level of financial awareness.
• An effective networker, you’ll be able to build good relationships with our investees, clients and contacts.
  
• A confident communicator both verbally and in your written work.
• A good working knowledge of CRM systems/databases and Microsoft Office.
• Given the nature of this role, we are looking for you to be fully mobile and in possession of a valid UK Driving Licence.
• You should have a valid right to work in the UK.