DJH

Commercial Funding Manager

DJH

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Manchester • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • As a** Commercial Funding Manager **you’ll be fully immersed with our experienced Funding Solutions team, which is responsible for sourcing new funding or refinancing existing facilities, ensuring alignment with the owners' and management teams' goals and strategies.
  • Engage with clients to understand their needs and objectives, then approach the market to source, structure, negotiate, and secure approval for a range of facilities, including working capital, commercial property, asset finance, and cash flow finance.
  • Develop and maintain a network of funders, understanding their target market and applying this knowledge and understanding to satisfy client needs.
  • Evaluate the needs of a businesses, meeting these needs with effective funding solutions and clearly communicating these options, allowing decision makers to make informed decisions across a range of funding solutions.
  • Be responsible for building relationships and working collaboratively across our network of offices.
  • Share your knowledge of the SME funding market by mentoring & stretching the development of others, whilst also investing in opportunities for your own personal development.
  • Manage multiple funding processes from start to finish managing client expectations through to a timely completion
  • Ensure compliance with mandatory Risk policies and procedures relating to governance, regulatory compliance operational and legal risk.

Requirements

  • Have experience working in an SME Banking environment, maybe as a relationship manager or a business development background.
  • Have a passion and strong understanding of business funding.
  • Have an ability to assess funding options gained form experience ideally within a banking or similar corporate finance environment.
  • Hold the necessary credit skills to analyse businesses and loan requests to identify key issues and develop appropriate solutions.
  • Hold strong relationship skills, including the ability to convey and explain information coherently in both oral and written formats.
  • Be able to create positive relationships both with external professionals, funders & solicitors.
  • Have an ability to challenge management teams to achieve optimum outcomes.
  • Be capable of analysing profit and loss, balance sheet and cashflow statements (integrated models) and challenge assumptions ensuring they are fit for funder submission.
  • Demonstrate excellent Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • Be an ambitious and hard-working self-starter
  • Thrive in a collaborative and progressive environment.
  • Love getting to know people with fantastic communication skills.
  • Be flexible to travel as required to other offices and/or events.
Benefits
  • Here’s a few reasons to come and join us, but you’ll find loads more once you get your feet under the table:
  • - Competitive salary
  • - Generous holiday allowance with the ability to buy up to 5 extra days, have your birthday off and a volunteer day
  • - Flexible hybrid working
  • - Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • - Tailored learning and development
  • - Company pension
  • - Health MOTs
  • - Mental health support
  • - A fully loaded wellbeing, social & community calendar.
  • **Together we achieve great things for our team, clients, communities and the planet. You can read more about life at DJH here. – www.djh.co.uk/careers/
  • **If this role with us as a **Commercial Funding Manager **sounds good and you’re ready for a new challenge, then what’s stopping you? **Apply today!**
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
business fundingcredit analysisfunding solutionsprofit and loss analysisbalance sheet analysiscash flow analysisnegotiationclient managementrisk compliancefinancial modeling
Soft Skills
relationship buildingcommunicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingself-starterflexibilityclient engagementteamwork