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Business Development Executive

The Role:

As a Business Development Executive, you play a key role in driving broker-led growth and delivering a high-quality, service-led experience. This role focuses on generating new business, managing broker relationships, and supporting brokers through the full application journey from submission to funding.

Working closely with Business Development Managers, Credit, and Operations, you will act as a trusted point of contact for brokers, particularly across the BDM panel and long-tail broker relationships.

Reporting to: Sales Director

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Generate new business through proactive, service-led engagement
• Fielding inbound calls and making outbound calls to active brokers, providing timely support and guidance.
• Take brokers throughout the full application lifecycle, from submission through to funding.
• Package and review funding applications to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Own and continuously develop the broker onboarding process.
• Identify opportunities to improve broker experience and reduce friction.
• Own and actively manage your pipeline in Salesforce, ensuring accurate and timely updates.
• Coordinate with internal teams to progress applications and resolve queries.
• Proactively manage delays and keep brokers informed throughout the process.
• Build and maintain strong knowledge of our products, processes, and eligibility criteria.  

Skills and Qualifications:

• Good communication skills  
• Excellent attention to detail  
• Able to prioritise and organise.  
• Ability to work as part of a team.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including a friendly and helpful telephone manner.  
• Computer literate, good keyboard skills and a working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and Word.  
• Knowledge of Salesforce advantageous.  

Details and benefits:

• Duration: Permanent
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Market related depending on experience
• Leave: 25 days annual leave
• Location: Office based role – Finchley Road, NW London. Convenient location with easy access to public transportation (Metropolitan, Jubilee, Thameslink and Overground)
• Start Date: ASAP

Finance Manager

The Role:

As a Finance Manager, you will be an integral part of the financial reporting team, focused on ensuring the accounting system is accurate, up-to-date, reflects the underlying loan management system transactions and is aligned with the applicable accounting standards; performing daily bank reconciliations across the group; substantiation of the balance sheet; performance analysis; preparing monthly management accounts and taking the lead on the statutory audit for the group.

Reporting to: Finance Director

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Prepare daily bank reconciliations and ensure outstanding items are cleared timeously; update the loan management systems for manual transactions
• Prepare weekly cash flow forecasts to ensure optimal use of liquidity across funding lines
• Be an integral part of bringing the entire finance function in-house and assisting with streamlining processes, automating manual processes and refine the month-end reporting timeline  
• Ensure the accounting system accurately and completely represents the nature of all transactions across all group entities (including prepayments, accruals, inter-company transactions and investments)
• Assist the Finance Director with the development of and evolution of financial controls and processes to ensure compliance with internal policies, funding line reporting and external regulations
• Prepare the monthly management accounting pack and ensure the financial information contained therein is accurate and of high quality
• Produce monthly balance sheet reconciliations and substantiate the performance of the group. Be a point of contact for all balance sheet and income statement related queries and analysis
• Support and assist the Finance Director and the Head of Financial Operations and Recoveries with the statutory audits and ensure that all deadlines are met and address audit findings and recommendations in a timely manner
• Work with the Finance Director to ensure compliance with the applicable accounting standards and regulations
• Ad hoc duties as required by the CFO, Finance Director and Head of Financial Operations and Recoveries

Skills and Qualifications:

• Part or newly qualified ACA or similar, preferably with financial services experience
• Ability to deliver with exceptional levels of accuracy and has fanatical attention to detail
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure and driven to succeed
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• Ability to analyse and dissect information and present results in a logical and understandable format for all stakeholders across the business
• Proficient in Excel and other Microsoft applications; experience with Sage accounting software a plus
• Growth mindset and ability to adapt to changing business requirements in a fast-paced business environment

Details and benefits:

• Duration: Permanent
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Market-related, depending on experience
• Leave: 25 days of annual leave
• Location: Office-based role – Finchley Road, NW London. Convenient location with easy access to public transportation (Metropolitan, Jubilee, Thameslink and Overground)
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment  
• Start Date: ASAP

Senior Credit Underwriter

The Role:

As a senior credit underwriter, you will be an integral part of the credit underwriting team and contribute to the credit philosophy of the business. You will be joining a growing team with an entrepreneurial, commercial mindset and make-work attitude. You will predominantly cover our unsecured and secured business loan offerings with exposure to our asset finance and property development products. Successful applicants will be granted a sign-off mandate and be expected to contribute towards streamlining the end- to-end processing of credit decisioning and development of junior team members.

Reporting to: Head of Credit

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Assess and analyse credit loan applications for serviceability and affordability in line with the credit underwriting policy
• Conduct second reviews of credit recommendations as part of our four-eye underwriting process
• Accurately report findings from investigations into non-performing loans, providing feedback to the team and senior management
• Play an active role in monthly credit committee meetings, articulating credit views to the wider business and executive committee
• Contribute to process improvements, ensuring continuous evolution through the adoption of advanced technological solutions
• Support day-to-day operations to maintain service level agreements (SLAs)

Skills and Qualifications:

• 4 years SME lending experience with previous signing mandate required
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure and driven to succeed
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• Ability to analyse and dissect information and present results in a logical and understandable format for all stakeholders across the business
• Growth mindset and ability to adapt to changing business requirements in a fast-paced business environment

Details and benefits:

• Duration: Permanent
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Market related depending on experience
• Leave: 25 days annual leave
• Location: Office based role – Finchley Road, NW London. Convenient location with easy access to public transportation (Metropolitan, Jubilee, Thameslink and Overground)
• Start Date: ASAP