Corporate Finance Manager

Corporate Finance Manager

Supporting the Investment Director, you’ll relish the chance to utilise your experience in transactional work such as Corporate Finance or Transaction Services whilst interacting with stakeholders at all levels, without having to compromise your integrity. You will be excited about the opportunities to work client side and to broaden your experience including assisting in building out an ecosystem that encourages partnership and collaborative working.

Because it’s not about hiding away from numbers; it’s an opportunity to broaden your skills whilst working in a fast-paced Defence market. You’ll be closer to the decision making, helping deliver acquisitions and other inorganic opportunities that genuinely make a difference.

Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence. You will work alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges.

As a Corporate Finance Manager, you will be ensuring transactions are moved forwards in a timely fashion. Your involvement will be from the very start. Performing initial analysis and research, following through to completion whilst managing multiple senior stakeholders and problem solving at every turn.

The Key Requirements

• Proven analytical skills with an ability to demonstrate business acumen.
• Exposure and experience in financial modelling and data analytics tools.
• Project management experience within a M&A focused environment with either an advisory or due diligence background.
• Able to show history of building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels whilst working in a small team.
• Resilient approach to working with an understanding of the ebbs and flows of transactional based work.
• An understanding of a technology focused sector or a desire to learn. It would be a bonus if this was Defence or National Security.

Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

With us you’ll enjoy the variety, breadth and development working in a small M&A team has to offer, whilst still maintaining an excellent working environment.

Where you’ll work…

You can be based from any of our Romsey, Woking or Gloucester sites but you should expect to spend time in Romsey, and there will be an element of travel involved. Please see details for each of our locations below;

Romsey: Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.

Woking: Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified – you’ll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5-minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.

Gloucester: Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Gloucester site in a business park two minutes from junction 11A of the M5; The site allows easy access to our local customer base. Set on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, you are never far from a picturesque view or lunch time walk.

The Benefits and Perks...

• Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life
• Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance
• Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions
• Holiday: 30 days plus public holidays
• Chemring Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3 or 5 year plan.

Clearances…

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance. As a result, you should have resided in the U.K. for the last 5 years.

The Next Step...

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.