Venture Debt Origination - Business Development London, England
Job description
Some careers are more impactful than others.
If you’re looking for a career where you will be respected as an individual and valued for the contributions you make, join HSBC and discover how diversity drives our success. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.
HSBC Commercial Banking serves millions of businesses ranging from small, to large corporates, providing commercial customers with a full range of banking services including Global Trade and Receivables Finance, RMB solutions, multi-currency business accounts, payments and cash management, and wealth management and insurance, as well as a comprehensive range of financing solutions. With dedicated Relationship Managers and Product Specialists providing local support and advice in over 60 countries and territories, HSBC helps connect customers to opportunities.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
Role Purpose:
HSBC Sustainable Finance’s mission is to support our clients to become more sustainable across climate, nature, and social/inclusion priorities and help companies transition to a lower-carbon economy.
The role holder will work with internal and external stakeholders to cover opportunities with high-growth “Green” tech companies and their venture capital investors across Europe, in order to directly create deal flow for the venture debt team.
Many of these organisations will be new-to-bank opportunities and will require very active engagement directly and indirectly with the ecosystem.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Research prospect clients, industries, capital providers, innovations in sustainability and cross check with our scorecard.
- Develop and execute pitches, speak to Founders / CFO’s / Investors to develop opportunities and produce call reports.
- Manage our pipeline, support prospecting and planning, deal structuring.
- Support our Platform through collaboration projects and other activities.
- Develop your network to support deal flow and our external reputation.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
- Experience in a client-focused environment with ideally broad experience of Financial/Banking industry.
- Strong, track record of business development with ability to network and reach out to stakeholders at different senior level
- Direct experience of working in a dynamic environment and adapting to new opportunities, ways of working and processes
- Client-facing relationship management – internal and external
- Knowledge and experience of the Tech / Venture Capital Climate/Sustainability ecosystem and agenda
- Strong work ethic and appreciation of working in a global environment.
- Working across teams and geographies to win new customers
- French and/or German language an advantage (but not a requirement)
The base location for this role will be 8 Canada Square, London with hybrid working
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
At HSBC we look to enable our employees to better balance their work / life priorities and have the flexibility required to meet challenging needs as they progress through different life stages. Where possible we will consider the following flexible working options: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, and working from home and staggered hours. If in considering a role with HSBC, you have a need for some flexibility in your working arrangements please discuss this with the recruitment team in the early stages of the application process.
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