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Within our Investment Department, we manage several funds across equity, debt, EIS, start-up loans and grants. We are looking to add an investment manager to the team, to operate at the heart of our investment activities, providing vital scale up finance to the UK’s most promising creative business.
We are a close-knit team of doers, and we nurture and promote our team culture. Ours is a very non-hierarchical, egoless environment, where we take strong initiative and ownership over the work we do independently and together. We are looking for someone determined, driven by adding value to a team via constructive inputs, yet also willing to listen and learn from a team where everyone brings a unique skillset and perspective. You will benefit from the support of an experienced and hard-working team collaborating day to day, enabling you to become a valued and high performing member of the team.
From day one, you will be involved and expected to contribute to all the phases of managing investments, ideally taking the lead independently in a short timeframe.
The ideal candidate will have some experience in investment management, and familiar with finance/accounting, making them capable of critically assessing financial accounts, and intimately familiar with financial modelling. A genuine interest in early-stage investing and the creative industries is greatly valued.
This is a unique opportunity for an early career investment professional to become part of an experienced high high-performing team operating at the heart of investing in UK creative talent and partnering with our regional programme team in the North East.
LOCATION: Edinburgh or North East (flexible hybrid working offered).
CONTRACT: Negotiable. Full-time employment preferred. Part-time (min 3 days per week) available for the right candidate.
STARTING SALARY: £40,000 FTE pa + benefits
TO APPLY: Email your CV and cover letter (stating full/part-time hours desired), and/or a max 5-minute video link* to jobs@wearecreative.uk. Please also complete our anonymous diversity and inclusion survey. Rolling interviews will take place by video conference.
* Video link optional. Creative UK is an inclusive recruiter and happy to make adjustments to our selection process by request
We value difference and celebrate the creativity that it brings. We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion across our organisation and industry by championing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, identities, talents, and physical and cognitive differences.
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