Investment Manager

Mobeus; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A private equity firm in London seeks an experienced Investment Team member with 5 years in finance. The role includes sourcing and evaluating investments, strong analytical skills, and team collaboration. Candidates must have top academic credentials and be UK-based. This position emphasizes diversity and inclusivity within the team.

Qualifications

• c. 5 years of transactional experience in private equity, corporate finance, or transaction support.
• Strong analytical skills including financial modelling experience.
• Ability to build rapport with management teams.

Responsibilities

• Source, evaluate, and present potential investments.
• Implement the investment process: financial modelling, due diligence.
• Prepare detailed investment papers detailing the investment case.

Skills

Financial modelling

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Commercial acumen

Education

Top academic credentials and professional qualifications

Job description

Mobeus is an independent, London-based private equity firm that invests in management buyouts across the UK small cap market. We have a long and successful track record investing up to £20m in UK based SMEs, partnering with founder owners and management teams to grow and develop businesses into larger, higher quality, market or sector-leading companies.

Our experienced and dynamic team of 15 people are all based in Central London, although we invest right across the UK. With a growing portfolio and active deal pipeline, we are looking to add ambitious, high-quality individuals to our investment team who have proven financial and analytical skills and transaction experience in our market segment in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of the investment team to source, evaluate and present potential investments
• Supporting the team to implement the investment process: financial modelling, due diligence, negotiation, and execution
• Taking specific responsibility for workstreams on transactions
• Preparing detailed investment papers detailing the investment case
• Working closely with our portfolio assets post investment.

PLEASE APPLY IF YOU HAVE

• c. 5 years of transactional experience in our market segment either from within the private equity industry; corporate finance or transaction support/FDD in an accounting firm
• Top academic credentials and professional qualifications
• Excellent commercial acumen to understand markets and businesses; and strong analytical skills including financial modelling experience
• Strong interpersonal and team working skills which enable you to build rapport with management teams and colleagues
• An ability to thrive in a small entrepreneurial team environment.

We are actively looking to recruit individuals from different backgrounds as we believe achieving diversity and inclusivity across our team is a key ingredient for our continued success.

We please note that we will only consider direct applications from UK based candidates – we will not consider any applications from recruitment agencies.

Please also bear in mind we will only be able to respond to successful applicants. If you do not hear from us within the next two weeks, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.