We are Growth Lending. We work with innovative and high-growth SMEs, accelerating their growth by providing bespoke growth capital. We have lent more than £1bn in the past ten years and have grown significantly with offices across the UK as well as in the US, Philippines and South Africa.
We seek an outstandingly well-networked and focused deal originator with the enthusiasm and energy required to seek out the best term debt opportunities. This person will lead the origination and execution of credit lines from £2m to £10 million across all UK B2B sectors. They will support a wide range of M&A and growth capital transactions.
You will bring a proven track record in sourcing, structuring and executing deals, and be capable of completing the depth of analysis required to balance risks and rewards. We bring creativity and originality to finance, so you must have the self-belief and drive required to look beyond the ordinary. Our amazing Execution team will support you in writing your deals, but ultimately, you must have the forensic attitude that enables you to get right into the detail. Growth Lending is perfect for those on a journey of continuous professional growth and favours humility and a love of learning.
Each of our Directors carves out their own business development path, so you will succeed best through your ability to build deep, abiding relationships based on a shared love of the industry and a clear understanding of how to power success.
We offer this genuinely exciting role for an accomplished deal-sourcing professional looking to step outside of an ordinary career path and branch out to something extraordinary. The right person will embody the pillars of our organisational culture, which boil down to being authentic, courageous, responsible, collaborative, flexible, engaged and having the drive to do the best job for our colleagues and the companies in which we invest.
Benefits
We do things differently. From the start we have focused on driving up diversity and inclusion in the financial services space. We strive constantly to ensure that throughout our team, at all levels, we achieve a diversity that matches the world around us and not just the sector in which we operate.
To support this aim we offer every member of the team the following:
- An organisation that embraces and encourages diversity, top to bottom and end to end
- Diverse recruitment panels
- Enhanced parental leave policies and practices
- Flexible working patterns, including working from home and fitting around the family, plus part-time positions where possible from a business perspective
- Strictly monitored and enforced pay equality
- One-to-one coaching and mentoring programme from a highly skilled and experienced People team
- Access to high-quality internal and external training
- Excellent benefits as standard, with additional external support when required
When we say that everyone is welcome, we can prove that we mean it. We are a highly supportive employer and we know we only get the best of the best when the only things we judge are experience, skills and aptitude. Our organisational culture celebrates difference and encourages individuality, so start thinking about where you fit in.
Skills Required
- Proven track record in sourcing, structuring and executing deals
- Ability to complete deep analysis to balance risks and rewards
- Strong network in the debt finance industry
- Experience in B2B sector transactions
What We Do
We bridge the funding gap, fuelling the success of high-growth businesses in the UK, US and across Europe. We've been supporting SMEs since 2011, when we first noticed a missing link in the funding ecosystem for growing businesses. Back then we focused on growth capital, bridging the gap between traditional banks and equity under the banner of BOOST&Co, but we knew this didn’t solve the whole problem. In 2020 we acquired GapCap and KX Media Capital, uniting these brands under the Growth Lending banner and launching our first working capital facilities. In the years that have followed, we have grown significantly, but some things remain the same: much like the firms we support, we do things a little bit differently. A human-first lending approach enables us to be agile and flexible, with decisions made by people, not machines. To date, we have lent more than £1bn to growing businesses. Could yours be next?
