What you will do ️
- Provide leadership to a team of highly motivated investment analysts and guide them through their professional development
- Evaluate strategic credit investment opportunities, make recommendations on size, length and structure of capital advances to the Credit Committee
- Meet founders and their management teams during the underwriting process to understand their business model and assess their needs and their risk profile
- Own underwriting models and be accountable for their performance
- Lead the monthly large loan monitoring process to identify any risks to repayment
- Support the Director of Investments in improving our underwriting capabilities through continuous process improvements
- Stand in for the Director of Investments in their absence
- Help create new products and work with commercial and technology teams to bring ideas to life
Requirements
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience, with a significant portion focused on making large debt investment decisions(£ / $2m+), preferably within the venture capital / venture debt / start-up financing ecosystem
- Experience in investing in asset-light business models (, e-commerce, saas)
- Strong educational background in finance, preferably holding an accounting / finance degree or an MBA
- Highly analytical, possessing expert-level experience and expertise in interpreting complex financial accounts / business data for underwriting purposes
- A confident communicator who can effectively interview founders and their CFOs to understand their business and financial performance, and articulate our decisions and rationale back to them
- Strong knowledge of sectors we operate in - you should intricately understand e-commerce / online / SaaS business models
- Commercial mindset - the ability to find a deal while protecting the business
- Organised, flexible and focused, with the ability to context-switch
- Hawk-eye level attention to detail, ability to zoom in and spot what others may miss
- Entrepreneurial mindset - you should constantly look to make the most of available opportunities, be decisive, overcome quickly to learn from setbacks
- Collaborative mindset, not afraid to over-communicate in a remote environment
Benefits
What we offer
At Uncapped, our people make us successful. We are a start-up with big goals, and we work hard, so we want to give everyone the benefits they really want.
We are continually adding to this list as new people join here are some of the things you can expect :
- Unlimited holiday : we believe that well-rested and happy people make the best employees
- Competitive compensation plan
- Personal growth fund : Raise your game from great to spectacular
- Monthly recognition and awards : Celebrate wins big and small
- The opportunity to make a big impact every day on the lives of European and US entrepreneurs.
- Workspaces in Warsaw, London and Atlanta
We can only consider applications from candidates eligible to work in Canada without requiring visa sponsorship.
30+ days ago