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Specialist - Strategic Investment
Scottish Enterprise
Full-time
Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, or Glasgow
Hybrid
£57,060
to
£61,848
Application closing date:
Apr 9, 2025
About the organisation
- Scottish Enterprise is Scotland’s national economic development agency. We support businesses by helping them to innovate, scale and transform our country’s economy. Everyone here is critical to our mission. For you, as an experienced Pension Manager who’s looking to play a pivotal role with a forward-thinking organisation, this is an opportunity to contribute to real change.
About the vacancy
- You’ll report to the Team Leader of Strategic Investments – an arm of our Entrepreneurship and Investment directorate.
Your team is made up of experienced specialists that are responsible for making targeted commercial equity and debt investments. You’ll lead deals with complex and novel investment structures, working with colleagues from across our business to manage deals from origination to exit, ensuring strong financial and economic returns.
Key Responsibilities
- ● Assessing, preparing, and presenting investment cases, including co-ordination of due diligence, negotiation of commercial terms, and liaising with targets and other funders
● Managing new and existing investments and debt positions, in line with our management processes, including follow-on investments, restructures, and exits
● Working with partners to enhance management teams and board compositions through board observer roles, appointments, and liaising with non-executive directors
● Helping to develop strategic investment opportunities and interventions, including building internal and external networks and working collaboratively with other parts of Scottish Enterprise
Key Competencies
- ● Experience of private equity, debt structuring, project finance, or portfolio management, built up in a private equity, corporate finance, deals advisory, or banking environment
● Strong written and verbal communication skills
● An ability to build and manage relationships
● Extensive analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to find creative solutions
Desired Qualifications
- Educated to SCQF Level 10 or equivalent with a relevant professional qualification or appropriate experience in investment, accountancy, banking, or law
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