Senior Investment Manager

As an Investment Manager for Nationwide Growth, you'll be responsible for screening potential opportunities against Nationwide Growth's investment criteria, risk appetite, and strategic objectives. You'll be leading and coordinating the assessment of investment opportunities, including undertaking market, commercial, financial, strategic, valuation, management, and risk analysis.

You will plan and coordinate due diligence across commercial, financial, legal, tax, technology, operational, regulatory, economic crime and other relevant workstreams, drawing on internal specialists and external advisers as needed. Using the information gathered, you will build clear, evidence-based investment cases and financial models, including returns analysis, scenario assessment, sensitivity analysis, and consideration of downside risks.

You will prepare high-quality papers and recommendations for the investment committee and senior decision-makers, presenting complex opportunities clearly and concisely, and support with the negotiation and execution of investments, including transaction structure, investment terms, governance rights, and completion requirements.

Through time, you will build trusted relationships with portfolio company leadership teams, acting as a constructive, commercially minded partner. You will monitor the performance, risk profile, and value creation progress of portfolio investments, using proportionate management information and agreed performance indicators, and you will contribute to portfolio valuation, governance, and reporting to senior stakeholders.

In this role you will represent Nationwide Growth externally and help to build its reputation as a credible, patient and purpose-led investment partner.

We're looking for an experienced investment professional who combines strong commercial judgement and analytical rigour with the ability to build relationships and deliver.

As a minimum, you should be:

• Able to demonstrate experience of assessing and executing equity investments, ideally in growth equity, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, or strategic investments

• Commercially curious, with the ability to understand business models, markets, competitive positioning, growth strategies, and the drivers of sustainable value creation

• Highly numerate and financially capable, with strong skills in financial analysis, investment appraisal, valuation, modelling, and returns assessment

• Experienced in structuring and coordinating due diligence and translating findings into clear investment conclusions and recommendations

• A confident communicator who can build credibility with founders, management teams, advisers, colleagues, and senior decision-makers

• Comfortable taking ownership of complex workstreams, managing multiple priorities, and maintaining momentum from initial engagement through to completion and portfolio management

• Skilled at producing concise, decision-useful investment papers, presentations, and management information

• Proactive, collaborative, organised and resilient, with sound judgement and close attention to detail

• Able to balance commercial objectives, member value, risk management, and governance requirements

• Committed to responsible investment, long-term partnership and supporting the sustainable growth of UK businesses

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers' shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think - we're honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand

• Push for better - We don't settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development

• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 30 days holiday, pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub - access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we're owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don't see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you're one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

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