Investment Manager, Fund Finance

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aberdeen Standard Investments seeks an experienced investment professional to join the Fund Finance team. This role focuses on loan origination within private credit, where you will source investment opportunities, manage transactions, and conduct credit analysis. The ideal candidate will have a solid industry background and expertise in financial risk analysis, client relationship management, and strong communication skills, along with numerous benefits including generous annual leave and pension contributions.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Access to an employee discount portal

Qualifications

• Experience within a front-line origination role in a bank, insurer, or asset manager.
• Proven track record of originating senior loans across Europe, UK, or North America.
• Existing network of relationships with banks and financial sponsors.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with financial sponsors and banks.
• Source investment opportunities and manage transactions from concept to completion.
• Conduct detailed credit analysis and due diligence.

Skills

Industry Knowledge

Financial and credit analysis

Client relationship management

Strong communication skills

Financial modelling

Presentation skills

Resilience

Creativity

Job description

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the role:

Fund Finance is an exciting growth business within Private Credit. We manage several private credit mandates that invest into investment-grade loan facilities used by Private Equity managers to bridge their investment activity and grow their asset portfolios. We work alongside investment banks, taking syndicated positions fund-level debt facilities.

We are looking for an experienced investment professional to support our global loan origination activity and manage a portfolio of existing fund finance investments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining relationships with financial sponsors, debt advisory firms and banks

• Sourcing investment opportunities and managing transactions from concept through execution to completion.

• Conducting detailed credit analysis and due diligence, including credit ratings and ESG risk profiling

• Preparation and presentation of investment papers for investment committees

• Working with clients to discuss transactions, pipelines, outlook and performance of exiting investments

• Assist with reporting and governance requirements
  

Skills and Qualifications:

• Industry Knowledge within a bank, insurer or asset manager within a front-line origination role

• Proven track record of originating senior loans across Europe, UK or North America with the ability to lead loan transactions through their full life cycle

• Experience of credit and financial risk analysis

• Existing network of relationships with banks and financial sponsors.

• Track record of working with and developing early careers colleagues

• Resilience and creativity

• Structured and lateral thinker

• Financial and credit analysis

• Strong presentation and influencing skills

• Client relationship management

• Strong communication skills

• Financial modelling

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits:

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business:

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.