Access to Finance Specialist

Job title:

Access to Finance Specialist

Company

The Growth Company

Job description

The Growth Company’s (GC) award winning Business Growth Hub team have an exciting opportunity for a finance professional to join its Access To Finance (A2F team). Individuals will join an established, experienced and well respected advisory team. The A2F team deliver high quality business support to ambitious GM based founders, business owners and senior managers who are seeking funding and finance to support their growth aspirations.A2F Specialists assess the growth potential of eligible businesses, diagnose any challenges to accessing finance, identify suitable funding sources and support with the development and execution of suitable fundraising plans. The team work with a broad spectrum of funders and investors covering equity, debt and where appropriate grants. Successful applicants will receive intensive ‘on the job’ training and support through an effective peer mentoring scheme.GC Business Growth Hub is a community of professionals with a common passion to support businesses across Greater Manchester realise their ambitions. Since inception in 2011, the Hub has supported more than 15,000 businesses including start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses, providing strategic guidance, finance and funding advice, creating international links, and paving the way for innovation and people development across the region. GC work with the best of public and private partners, offering expert one-to-one advisory and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, finance and much more. GC provides excellent career development opportunities.A2F Specialist Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake and document through GC CRM system ( MS Dynamics ) a detailed diagnostic assessment for each client to understand their core business issues and make sound recommendations for appropriate actions to support their growth plans.
• Complete a detailed assessment of the client’s current financial position and develop a thorough understanding of current and future funding/investment objectives.
• Analyse and assess the client’s current level of ‘investment readiness’ offering support and guidance where there are areas for improvement. This includes supporting with appropriate aspects of business and financial planning ( Forecasting / Modelling, Pitchdeck development, Valuation, pitching skills and investor / funder engagement ).
• Develop a thorough understanding of the SME commercial / public sector marketplace, keeping abreast of market developments, and being able to signpost client businesses to the most appropriate forms of funding and / or investment.
• Develop and maintain a network of business / professional contacts capable of generating referrals into the Access to Finance Service and wider GC Business Growth Hub teams.
• Handling client / colleague / stakeholders enquiries via phone and email, initially assessing growth potential and business needs using appropriate in-house diagnostic tools, processes and systems where required, and establishing and maintaining effective relationships and key client contacts.
• Making sure clients are introduced in a timely manner to those complimentary internal or external services which are deemed to be integral to their aims, objectives and strategies.
• Critically ensuring the timely monitoring and collection of all client output and impact data is undertaken throughout the project and at the conclusion of each individual project, in-line with external funders’ requirements.

About you:

• A keen and demonstrable interest in progressing your career with a finance advisory capacity.
• An effective communicator who is confident and comfortable promoting the A2F Service both to internal colleagues, clients and externally across a wide variety of stakeholders.
• A highly motivated self-starter with a ‘can-do’ mindset who enjoys the process of developing and enhancing their connections via effective networking in a dynamic environment. You will possess the ability to engage and convert conversations into clients for delivery of innovative funding solutions.
• A clear understanding of the importance of a client focused approach in creating and working with a portfolio of businesses, encouraging engagement and commitment to unlock growth potential and drive economic development.
• Interest and awareness within the key areas of finance advisory support. Specifically, Interpreting financial statements, Investment readiness, and SME funding sources and solutions.
• Ideally have an interest, awareness, knowledge and / or understanding of the key national, sub-regional and local organisations and their role in supporting economic development and specifically business growth.
• Comfortable with the use of technology in delivering advisory services and communicating internally and externally in a fast paced environment.

Skills Required:

• Minimum degree-level education, or comparable business finance and funding experience.
• Over 5 years of commercial experience in the private sector, including at a senior management or director level (however, candidates with fewer than this number of years’ experience, who can demonstrate the necessary skills, will be considered).
• Professional, confident and comfortable communicator with the ability to change and / or challenge perceptions in a non-confrontational and constructive manner.
• Proven track record in managing the range of business finance and funding issues associated with periods of business growth.
• Demonstrable experience in the management and delivery of client facing services.
• Excellent planning, organizational, administrative and project management skills.
• Well-developed IT skills, including the effective use of CRM databases (input and analysis of data), MS Office products – Outlook, Excel, Word, Powerpoint or equivalents.

LocationManchesterBusiness Area Logobusinessgrowth.jpgCompany LogoBusiness Growth HubCompanyBusiness Support Business Finance (BSBF)Contract typePermanent/ Full- timeSalaryUp to £44,000.00 per annumAdvert Brandbusinessgrowth.jpgClosing Date21/12/2024Ref No4422Documents(PDF, 169.48kb)We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.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 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.

Expected salary

£44000 per year

Location

Manchester

Job date

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:59:49 GMT

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