End Date
Monday 31 March 2025
Salary Range
£0 - £0
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Investment Director
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: Full Time
SALARY: Competive Package
About This Opportunity
As the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, LDC supports management teams across the UK to fulfil their growth ambitions and build great businesses. Since 1981, LDC has invested over £5.5bn in more than 650 SME and mid-market businesses. More details can be found at
www.ldc.co.uk
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Working in a senior role as part of a tight knit high-performing team at the heart of its regional business community, the purpose of this role is to lead and originate transactions and win mandates, complete investments and manage portfolio companies efficiently and effectively.
You’ll be responsible for completing at least 1 – 2 deals per year in a lead role and have responsibility for portfolio management, as a Director on the relevant Boards, of between 1 - 3 LDC portfolio companies per year.
On a day to day basis, you’ll take a lead role on the day to day analysis and execution of investments and for potential investments evaluate the investment strategy, value creation opportunity, current management, market positioning and critical financial issues in order to identify the key opportunities and risks associated with the investment.
You’ll present potential investments to committee and drive the investment process to ensure a timely and successful completion as well as taking a lead role in the structuring and negotiation of investments, identifying issues and creating solutions where necessary.
will be responsible for building and maintaining networks of intermediaries, advisors and corporates from which to source investment opportunities.

Other responsibilities include:

• Work closely with senior management of portfolio companies, usually by acting as LDC’s non-executive director on the board of the investee company (or arranging for suitable representation on LDC’s behalf).
• To contribute to the development and implementation of the Office’s Marketing plans and initiatives
• To participate in the delivery of LDC medium term plan through the achievement of agreed budgets/targets.
• Demonstrate effective risk management and control by ensuring appropriate regulatory assurance and compliance, and thorough due diligence on transactions.
• To coach and manage more junior members of the team and to set an example with a positive and professional attitude.
• To ensure the maintenance of the highest standards for new business and case management.

About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• A wealth of prior M&A experience, either in private equity, advisory, due diligence, leveraged finance or broader industry experience.
• Direct private equity experience not a necessity if you have a proven record of originating and winning new business this is ideal
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills
• Exceptional inter-personal, communication and leadership skills to support relationship building with management teams and the corporate finance community
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Entrepreneurial and motivated by personal success
• High levels of personal integrity and honesty

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
Apply today and find out more.
This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks
As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA’s Financial Services Register
This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook
The Person (“P”) performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1) P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2) those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm.
If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference

• Work closely with senior management of portfolio companies, usually by acting as LDC’s non-executive director on the board of the investee company (or arranging for suitable representation on LDC’s behalf).
• To contribute to the development and implementation of the Office’s Marketing plans and initiatives
• To participate in the delivery of LDC medium term plan through the achievement of agreed budgets/targets.
• Demonstrate effective risk management and control by ensuring appropriate regulatory assurance and compliance, and thorough due diligence on transactions.
• To coach and manage more junior members of the team and to set an example with a positive and professional attitude.
• To ensure the maintenance of the highest standards for new business and case management