Job Title: Relationship Director

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: OTE £70K - 100K + Bonuses

About Us:

Channel Finance Group is a well-established whole of market brokerage offering customers a range of services from asset finance, invoice factoring, commercial finance, residential mortgages and protection. Channel Finance Group was established to fill a gap in the market for good quality, independent advice when it comes to sourcing funding. We found that advice in the market was centred around the broker selling a certain product in his interest as opposed to what the client needed. Our team is growing rapidly and we are looking for a highly motivated, experienced finance specialist to join the team in a dynamic role with lots of flexibility to suit your needs.

Job description:

As a Relationship Director - Asset Finance , you will play a crucial role in achieving our ambitious origination targets. You will have warm leads from our leading banking and accountancy partnerships and have the opportunity to focus on your own business development, giving you the best of both worlds. As a Relationship Director, you will work closely with business owners to get under the skin of their operation, conduct a full financial analysis and build a robust proposal which supports their business growth in the best possible way.

Working with businesses across a range of sectors, offering both hard and soft assets, you will ensure each customer is fully supported and educated on their options, ensuring a high level of customer orientated service.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Acting as a subject matter expert on all things Asset Finance, acting as a lead contact for SME customers

• Supporting customers to structure complex deals which solve their problems and boost their business, with a focus on long-lasting relationships

• Negotiate contracts to maximise profit

• Deal origination

• Achievement of SLA's and KPI's

• Maintain CRM systems accurately

• Work closely with the wider partnership team to ensure overall success 

• Forecasting and reporting

Skills & Experience:

To be successful as a Relationship Director, you will need: 

• A solid background in Asset Finance with the ability to write complex deals

• Hold proven credit skills and a good track record of presenting robust business cases to support applications

• An established B2B sales professional with proven ability to close deals and achieve targets - you will have direct experience of working with business customers

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of assessing operational risks, changing economic/market conditions and regulatory requirements

• A successful relationship builder

What can you expect of us?

• A company mantra of having fun together, getting results together and giving back together

• A growing organisation that offers vast opportunity for progression.

• 28 days holiday, company pension scheme, health care plan, cycle to work scheme, death in service benefits and access to our in house Wealth Planning and Mortgage departments

• Communicative, accessible and approachable management.

• Smart working and agile working hours including the ability to work

And of course, you will be compensated competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

To apply please submit your CV to recruitment@channelfinance.co.uk