We're looking for a Transaction Manager to help professional buyers acquire small businesses through our new M&A platform. Your mission is to build and manage the buy-side of our M&A platform, connecting professional buyers with acquisition opportunities and driving deals through to completion.
Requirements
- 3+ years of SME M&A experience from a broker, advisory firm, or deal platform.
- Evidence of end-to-end deal execution under time constraints, demonstrating ability to close transactions in fast-moving environments.
- Strong ability to manage emotionally-driven sellers and impose price realism while maintaining trust and rapport.
- Comfort working with lightly-tooled processes and high manual throughput in the early stages of building the platform.
- Fluency in UK SME deal structures, Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) terms, and payment mechanisms including earnouts and deferred consideration.
- Comfortable interfacing with legal counsel and financial buyers, coordinating between multiple parties throughout the transaction.
- High output mindset with fast adoption of new workflows and consistent delivery of iwoca-grade customer experience.
- Strong commercial instinct when originating relationships, working through incomplete information, and maintaining deal velocity.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership.
- A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents.
- 25 days' holiday per year, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave.
- A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years.
- Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members that need emotional or mental health support.
- 3% Pension contributions on total earnings.
- An employee equity incentive scheme.
- Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money.
- Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme.
- Two company retreats a year: we've been to France, Italy, Spain, and further afield.
- A learning and development budget for everyone.
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.
- Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.
