Investment Manager

We are currently recruiting for at least one Investment Manager, to join Maven’s Southern Investment Team on a full-time, permanent basis, in our Bristol or Reading office
. The successful candidate will have a rare opportunity to join an experienced investment house deploying growth capital funds across the South of England.

Maven Capital Partners, a leading private equity house, partners with a diverse range of ambitious, entrepreneurial management teams to accelerate growth, and serves thousands of investors with the goal of delivering exceptional returns.

Headquartered in Glasgow, and with offices throughout the UK, Maven has over one hundred investment and support professionals providing a truly nationwide coverage. Maven manages £740 million of assets for a variety of client funds, including Venture Capital Trusts (VCT), an institutional buyout fund, UK regional fund mandates (including the South West Investment Fund), and Maven Investor Partners (MIP), a syndicate of institutional, family office and experienced investors.

Maven is one of the most active investors in the UK with our experienced team backing a diverse range of high growth entrepreneurial businesses across a range of sectors.

You will be a core member of the South Investment Team helping to identify, appraise and partner with the most exciting high growth businesses in London and the South of England, as well as supporting the growth of existing portfolio companies. Maven regards this exposure to both investment and portfolio management as the best way of developing highly skilled investment practitioners.

The focus of the Maven South West Investment Fund and the Maven VCTs is on growth capital investments of up to £5 million across a range of sectors and investment types.

The role will be based from either our Bristol or Reading office, but there will be travel across the South of England and some flexibility for home working when appropriate.

When working in this dynamic, fast paced environment the role will include but is not limited to the following:

• Support and generate new business introductions and relevant investment opportunities for Maven.
• Support investment team members in coordinating deal flow analysis and deal tracking via internal reporting systems.
• Liaise and network with intermediaries including accountants, lawyers, brokers, and corporate finance advisors to generate and manage deal flow.
• Attend and actively participate in management presentations and business meetings.
• Undertake detailed analysis of investment opportunities including initial appraisal, due diligence, financial modelling, building the investment thesis and writing internal Maven investment papers for Investment Committee.
• Support the presentation of investment opportunities to the Maven Investment Committee.
• Support the presentation of deal structures and related terms to Management teams and advisors, assisting in the negotiation of terms and legal documentation.
• Review and consider due diligence findings and help negotiate investment documentation.
• Help drive deal timetable and deliver completed transactions in required timescales.

Work with investment and portfolio colleagues to support regular board and investee company meetings.

Develop a productive relationship with investee businesses to support their growth and exit planning.

Monitor performance including cash requirements, challenge strategy and utilise Maven’s network to assist management teams.

Undertake information gathering for internal monitoring purposes and for preparation of presentations to client funds.

Input monthly management account and budget information into internal reporting systems.

• Professionally qualified candidate with ideally at least four years’ relevant work experience.
• Candidate will be confident, highly numerate and literate, analytical, demonstrate attention to detail, self-reliance, and have strong administration, time management and organisational skills.
• Demonstrate strong verbal & written communication, business development and negotiation skills, and be able to prioritise and work…