Growth Lending

Transactions Manager

Growth Lending

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cape Town • South Africa

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About the role

  • Act as the central point of coordination between the Deal team, Risk, legal counsel, investors and the borrower
  • Oversee the end-to-end transaction process, ensuring documentation aligns with credit approval and policy
  • Ensure conditions precedent are satisfied, and internal approvals and drawdown mechanics are completed efficiently
  • Ensure KYC and AML requirements are met and that files remain disciplined and audit-ready
  • Develop a strong understanding of cross-border legal and risk nuances across UK and US jurisdictions
  • Influence stakeholders and maintain alignment to resolve issues calmly while maintaining a high-quality client experience

Requirements

  • Proven experience executing lending transactions from sanction to drawdown, including documentation, deal management and coordination with solicitors and valuers
  • Strong understanding of specialist finance and commercial lending (healthcare and cashflow lending advantageous)
  • Solid grounding in AML/KYC and risk controls
  • Confident stakeholder manager, able to work across front office, control functions and clients
  • Highly organised, detail-driven and able to manage multiple live transactions
  • Strong commercial judgement and comfort working with legal documentation
  • Clear communicator with a cooperative influencing style
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, transaction-led environment with minimal structure
  • Strong MS Office/Excel skills and disciplined pipeline management
  • Willingness to be flexible with working hours in line with transaction demands and cross-jurisdictional deal activity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
lending transactionsdocumentationdeal managementAMLKYCrisk controlscommercial lendingcross-border legal nuancestransaction coordinationpipeline management
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementorganizational skillsdetail-orientedcommercial judgementclear communicationinfluencing styleflexibilityproblem-solvingclient experiencecalm under pressure