Graduate – Equity Transactions

Job description

Job title: Graduate – Equity Transactions
Team: Equity Transactions
Location: Any Scottish Enterprise hub in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh or Aberdeen (with home-working options)
Salary: £31,115
Hours: Full time – 35 hours a week (flexible working considered)
Status: Permanent
Closing date: 8 May 2024
Job ref no: R00493

Be part of building Scotland's future

Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's national and international economic development agency. We work to transform the Scottish economy by helping businesses to innovate and scale. Our work is critical to the Scottish Government’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET) and its goals of creating high-value jobs, boosting productivity, and growing national wealth.

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The opportunity

Join our Graduate Development Programme and be part of Equity Transactions – a team that sits within our Entrepreneurship and Investment directorate. It’s a high-performance environment that delivers Scottish Enterprise’s innovative co-investment equity funds. This exciting opportunity will put you at the heart of investment in some of Scotland’s most ambitious, innovative and high growth potential companies: those that deliver economic benefits for Scotland, and commercial returns for Scottish Enterprise.

The role

You’ll support an experienced team of specialists, helping them transact investments in a variety of early-stage, high-growth companies. With around 100 investments a year, it’s a high-volume setting where you’ll need to help the team deliver investments efficiently and successfully. As part of this role, you’ll be exposed to both the legal and financial aspects of our investment activity, as well as enjoying wide-ranging engagement with internal and external stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking the lead on tasks that support our investment specialists’ work – everything from drafting internal approval papers and gathering information to support investment decisions, to carrying out investor and company checks
• Supporting the team with early-stage stakeholder engagement (such as dealing with investors, companies or advisers) and attending external events and conferences
• Making sure key information and transactional documents are recorded on our internal systems
• Dealing with ad-hoc project requests from the Equity Transaction and wider Entrepreneurship and Investment directorate without supervision 

Who we're looking for

We won’t expect you to arrive equipped with all the skills and knowledge necessary for success in this role. What we’re more interested in at this stage are skills, experience, traits and strengths such as:  

• Qualifications or skills and experience at SCQF Level 9 as a minimum (for example, a BA/Ordinary Degree, Graduate Diploma or SVQ at SCQF Level 9) in finance, business, banking, accountancy, law or economics
• Self-motivation (with a proven ability to work solo and as part of a team)
• Good numeracy and analytical skills
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Good IT skills, particularly in Excel, MS Teams and similar

What we offer

If successful, you'll gain access to the following benefits: 

• Membership of the Scottish Enterprise Pension and Life Assurance Scheme – a pension based on your final pensionable salary, flexible retirement options and generous life assurance cover
• Up to 43 annual leave days a year (including public holidays), with the opportunity to buy additional holidays
• Flexible working arrangements
• A health cash plan
• Our Employee Retail Benefits Scheme
• Our Employee Assistance Scheme

Life at Scottish Enterprise

As one of Scotland’s Top 10 Flexible Employers, we pride ourselves on empowering our colleagues to work when and where they can best deliver their role in support of our corporate plan.

Learn more about working with us 

How to apply

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application form by Wednesday 8 May 2024.

Assessment centres will be held in Glasgow and Edinburgh between 11 and 14 June 2024. The start date will be in September 2024.

Our values

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

Apply now to keep building your future with us

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process, but throughout your employment with us.

We have the following networks which are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion: Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi-Cultural, Multi-Generational and Pride (LGBTQ+).