iwoca.co.uk - Sell-Side Transaction Manager - manda
Requirements
• 3+ years of SME M&A experience from a broker, advisory firm, or deal platform, with evidence of end-to-end deal execution under time pressure. • Ability to manage sellers with strongly varying M&A experience and impose price realism while maintaining trust and rapport. • Treat your portfolio like a P&L, you know which deals are moving, which are stalling, which to cut, and you make those calls without being asked. • Comfort with rapidly evolving processes and new tooling (including AI), with a high-output mindset and consistent delivery of iwoca-grade customer experience. • Fluency in UK SME deal structures, Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) terms, and payment mechanisms including earnouts and deferred consideration. • Comfortable interfacing with legal counsel, financial buyers, and accounting firms, coordinating between multiple parties through diligence and documentation. • Strong commercial instinct when working through incomplete information and maintaining deal velocity across a portfolio. • Comfortable being on the phone for hours a day, building trust quickly with business owners and reading emotional signals over the line. • Experience working with imperfect financial data and owner-managed businesses in the £500k-£10m enterprise value range. • Understanding of financial due diligence outputs and how to translate technical findings into actionable seller guidance.
Benefits
• We expect to pay a base range of £40,000 to £90,000 for this role, depending on experience and location. • Compensation includes a performance-linked incentive based on a fixed percentage of the transaction fees you generate. With this structure, performers typically earn total compensation between 1.5× and 2.5× base. • We're open-minded, so definitely include your salary goals with your application. We routinely benchmark salaries against market rates, and run quarterly performance and salary reviews. • At iwoca, the best idea wins. We model our culture on independent thinking, challenging untested logic, and evidence-based decisions. We prioritise learning and growth, and give people the autonomy to develop in the direction that makes them most effective. • We're a tech company and believe in the power of AI to help us work faster and better. We provide the infrastructure where every iwocan always has access to the best models and where those models have access to all of our data. We will help our people to learn how to use and grow with the new tools available to them. • We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a great place to work: • Offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks. • Events and community-led groups, including running groups, padel, and monthly ping-pong and pool competitions. • 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. • And to make sure we all keep learning, we offer: • A learning and development budget for everyone. • Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers. • Access to learning platforms like Treehouse. • iwoca benefits & policies https://coda.io/@iwocauk/iwoca-benefits-policies-uk
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