Specialist – Investment Solutions

Job description

Job title: Specialist
Team: Investment Solutions
Location: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, or Glasgow with home working options
Salary: £57,060
Hours: 35 hours a week with flexible working options considered
Status: Permanent
Closing date: 9 April 2025
Job ref no: R00595

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. Our work is critical to the Scottish Government’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET) and its goals of creating high-value jobs, boosting productivity and growing national wealth.

As a Specialist in our Investment Solutions Team, you’ll make an impact where Scotland’s economic and investment priorities meet private and public capital. This is an opportunity that will give you unrivalled access to leading projects, companies and finance providers that are looking to invest in Scotland.

Expect your commercial skills and investment or funding capabilities to be tested and extended, as you develop innovative investment solutions. The collaborations you’ll be involved in will drive company growth and bring constrained private sector capital into our key mission areas.

The role

As part of our Investment Solutions team, you’ll identify areas of opportunity through your understanding of public and private finance sources, and your technical funding and investment expertise. 

You’ll develop bespoke and market-making investment solutions. This will involve building robust, evidence-based business cases for new investment and/or collaborating with public and private stakeholders. 

To perform this role successfully, you’ll need to cultivate strong, productive relationships – with your team, with a diverse range of prospects, and with private and public funders and investors.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Addressing complex structural investment challenges – either through direct delivery of solutions, or by influencing others to deliver where no market solution currently exists
• Constructing and presenting solid business cases for investment products or approaches, clearly laying out the financial and economic risks and rewards at each stage of the process
• Gathering and facilitating information sharing by developing and building networks and relationships with colleagues across Scottish Enterprise, as well as with private and public sector funders
• Keeping your Team Leader fully informed of the progress of each opportunity – escalating matters where needed, together with sufficiently detailed supporting information

Who we're looking for

Success in this role takes good investment risk understanding – ideally coupled with experience of structuring and negotiating commercial funding or investments.

You’ll be financially literate, comfortable finding creative solutions to complex problems, and able to steer others towards agreement on the best approach. Influencing at senior level and developing collaborative solutions with external organisations and funders should come as second nature to you. 

You’ll also be keen to proactively raise Scottish Enterprise’s visibility by regularly attending, and taking part in, external events.

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

• A good understanding of the financing challenges facing companies ambitious to scale – particularly in nascent markets
• Financial literacy, preferably with experience of identifying risk, structuring and negotiating commercial funding, and suggesting and implementing new funding solutions
• Sound knowledge (or an ability to acquire this) of the nuances of economic development
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills, especially when detailing complex challenges and propositions – and especially, the potential risks involved
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills – vital for managing and prioritising a demanding workload while maintaining a flexible approach
• Education to SCQF Level 9, or equivalent experience in accountancy, banking, law or investment

How to apply

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application by Friday 9 April 2025.

Interviews will begin the week commencing Monday 21 April 2025.

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. Learn more about working with us  

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 and build 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+).