Transaction Associate/Manager

Verda; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Hybrid work

Global team

Job summary

Verda, a Helsinki-based full-stack AI infrastructure company, seeks a Transaction Associate/Manager (Debt Financing) to join the finance team. You will work on multi-billion dollar debt programs, building models, and coordinating with senior leadership on term sheets and diligences.

You'll collaborate with Legal, Treasury, and FP&A to align financing structures with business needs, manage multiple workstreams in a high-growth environment, and contribute to scaling Europe's leading AI

Qualifications

• 2-4+ years in finance-focused roles or investment banking
• Experience with debt financing and term sheets
• Strong financial modeling and valuation skills
• Excellent communication with senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain models for financing structures
• Prepare internal and investor materials
• Support term sheet negotiations
• Coordinate with Legal, Treasury, FP&A
• Drive due diligence and deal closing

Skills

Investment banking

Private equity

Financial modeling

Debt instruments

English fluency

Autonomy

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Business

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work. We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco. Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

Why Verda

• Cash and equity compensation along with various fringe benefits.

• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

• 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Work mode: Hybrid, based in Helsinki

• Employment type: Full time and permanent

About the role

We're hiring a full-time Transaction Associate/Manager (Debt Financing) to join our finance team in Helsinki, reporting directly to the Group’s Director of Debt Financing. The debt team consists of former investment bankers and private capital investors from London and New York. This is a high-impact role supporting a rapidly scaling capital raising program. You'll work closely with senior finance leadership on investor discussions, term sheet negotiations, and diligence processes across multi-billion dollar debt programs.

Your responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate financing structures, pricing, and covenant terms of the contemplated financings

• Prepare both internal and investor facing materials and analyses, including information memoranda and other diligence packs

• Contribute to guiding advisors in their respective workstreams

• Support the execution of debt financing transactions, including structuring, negotiation, and closing

• Participate in investor discussions and support term sheet negotiations

• Drive M&A-style due diligence processes tied to financing transactions on a day-to-day basis

• Track and benchmark market terms across comparable debt transactions

• Partner with Legal, Treasury, and FP&A to align financing structures with business needs

Your key competencies

• 2-4+ years of experience in investment banking, private capital investments, management consulting, finance roles in scale-ups, or equivalent. International experience and exposure to GPU financings are considered as strong advantages.

• Strong financial modeling skills and comfort working with complex capital structures

• Experience with (or aptitude for) debt instruments and structures

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Fluency in English is a must

• At least a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Business, or a related field

• Comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy and ownership from day one

• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to translate complex information for senior stakeholders

• Genuine interest to scale up a leading European AI Infrastructure player rapidly