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Investment Manager

Job Description

The Growth Company’s (GC) Employment team have an exciting new opportunity for an Investment Manager to join GC’s early-stage Equity Investment team providing seed capital to startups. The Investment Manager will be a key integrator in the startup ecosystem to generate opportunities to assess for investment and will also assist with investment management through financial and commercial due diligence in support of the investment process.

Equity Finance service is part of the GC, an award-winning, accredited, social enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. We deliver a range of services, working with customers and stakeholders to achieve our vision of a society where economic growth and prosperity is inclusive, sustainable and leaves no person or community behind.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with all stages of deal management, including sourcing new investment opportunities, preparing investment papers, conducting due diligence, and reporting on the portfolio to Limited Partners (LPs).
• Identify and evaluate potential investments in innovative startups and new technologies using financial models and market research.
• Work with portfolio companies to drive their success and identify new opportunities.
• Interpreting financial statements and using them to make predictions about the viability and growth potential of potential investments.
• Build relationships with entrepreneurs and other industry professionals including with co- investors (angels, syndicates, and institutions).

About you:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well in a team and think creatively and strategically.
• Innovation and Impact knowledge and interest.

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as finance, computer science or business.
• Technical knowledge of early-stage investment processes including financial, legal, commercial, and management diligence.
• Substantial prior experience in a similar role, ideally at a venture capital firm, investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or a startup.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and risk.
• Strong financial analysis and financial modelling skills.
• Business strategy experience.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at [email protected] or call us on 0161 237 4447.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

• Our annual leave entitlement starts at 25 days, plus bank holidays which increases with length of service with the opportunity to purchase up to 10 additional days leave each year.
• Access to counselling via our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We have 8 EDI steering group to make sure we value our differences and enable an environment of fairness, dignity and respect.
• We offer up to two days’ paid leave to volunteer at a charity of choice through our Volunteer2Day scheme. 
• We offer travel loans, discounted seasonal travel tickets for public transport and a great cycle to work scheme promoting opportunities to reduce environmental pollution and a healthier lifestyle. 
• We have an enhanced learning and development offer for all staff and managers with opportunities for mentoring, undertaking apprenticeships and continuous professional development. 
• Paid for eye test and contributions towards glasses for VDU users, helping improve overall health and wellbeing in the workplace.