Specialist – Investment Solutions

Job description

Job title: Specialist
Team: Investment Solutions
Location: Any Scottish Enterprise hub with working from home options
Salary: £56,506 - £61,247 
Hours: Full time with options for flexible working
Status: Permanent
Closing date: 11 August 2024
Job ref no: R00550

Be part of building Scotland's future

Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's national and international economic development agency. We work to transform the Scottish economy by helping businesses to innovate and scale, creating high-value jobs, boosting productivity and growing national wealth.
 
Join us and lead our newly formed Investment Solutions team, within the Entrepreneurship and Investment (E&I) directorate, where you’ll be at the heart of developing investment focused solutions in Scotland’s most innovative industries. 

The role

You’ll use your networks, as well as your technical funding and investment experience, to identify opportunities for new market making investment solutions that will drive investment into hard-to-fund and emerging markets. Guided by your team leader, you’ll work to develop bespoke solutions and robust business cases for new investment products or approaches. You’ll collaborate widely with colleagues and stakeholders, as well as developing the relationships and the opportunities essential to your team’s success.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Using your investment or banking structuring expertise to identify and find creative solutions to complex structural investment challenges
• Delivering and collaborating with others to deliver new solutions or approaches in the market
• Constructing and presenting evidence-based business cases for new products or solutions, articulating the risks and economic rewards at every stage
• Developing networks and relationships with Scottish Enterprise colleagues and external private and public sector funders, including key industry players, to share information and expertise
• Reporting to your team leader regularly and escalating issues in good time, sharing necessary information

Who we're looking for

With a background in transactions and experience of structuring and negotiating commercial funding, you’re confident finding creative solutions to complex problems. You use your influence to build consensus at all levels, including collaborating with external organisations and funders. You actively raise the visibility of the work you do and are a familiar face at industry events.  

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

• Extensive experience of structuring and negotiating commercial funding (ideally debt and equity) with the ability to suggest and implement new funding solutions
• A solid understanding of the challenges facing companies and industries looking to scale, especially those operating in emerging markets
• Strong financial acumen with good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex propositions assessing opportunities and risks
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Management and prioritisation of a demanding workload
• A degree or equivalent qualification (SCQF Level 10) with an appropriate professional qualification or equivalent experience in investment, accountancy, banking or law

Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll also have:

• Sector specific investment experience relevant to Scottish Enterprise’s strategic priorities
• A well-connected network within the Scottish finance and public sector

How to apply

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application form by 11 August 2024.

Interview dates

Interviews will take place the week commencing 19 August 2024.

Life at Scottish Enterprise

As one of Scotland’s Top 10 Flexible Employers, we pride ourselves on empowering our colleagues to work when and where they can best deliver their role in support of our corporate plan.

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Our values

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

Apply now to keep building your future with us

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process, but throughout your employment with us.

We have the following networks, which are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion: Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi-Cultural, Multi-Generational and Pride (LGBTQ+).