German and English Speaking Business Development Executive

Independent major player in execution services for financial transactions, Aether Financial Services consists of a 40-person-plus multicultural team, who are experts in three business lines. In London, Aether Financial Services has achieved a 45% growth each year with strong ambition for the future.

Aether Financial Services operates in the private debt and capital markets, covering all agency roles: loan agent, bond agent, administrative agent, calculation agent, paying agent, security agent, etc. Aether Financial Services provides independent valuations of all types of financial instruments and securities, from the most vanilla to the most highly structured products for recurring, specific or one-off needs.

Aether Financial Services offers a set of constantly evolving value-added services dedicated to managing the life of financial transactions based on proprietary digital solutions “VOX AEQUITAS” (capital increase or subscription, general meeting, registrar, record keeping, management package implementation, etc.).

To support its development, AFS is creating a position at its London office for a Business Development Director of the Agency Private Debt activity to accelerate its growth in the UK. Reporting directly to the company's General Management, your missions after a familiarization phase with the specificities of the Company's offers will be:

• You will take the measure of the services offered by Aether FS in the field of the PRIVATE DEBT Agency to formalize and define a development strategy (markets and targets) and the corresponding commercial discourse to support the development of the company.
• By taking responsibility for such development, your mission will consist in formalizing the communication/marketing supports to promote Aether FS's offers while also being a force of proposal on the essential evolutions to be considered to reinforce our positioning on the market in terms of offers and services.
• To secure and support the development and visibility on the targeted markets, in relation with the Communication Department, you will take responsibility for formalizing the formats of the supports and actions to support the development of the activity: blog, articles, webinars, events.
• You will be a driving force in the coordination and a field actor in the realization of the development actions of the offers and this activity vis-à-vis the identified targets by relying both on existing customer contacts and on new targets in the UK but also Continental Europe.
• By your position, you will be in close relation with the other Business Unit Directors to maximize the sharing of information as well as joint development opportunities and synergies.
• You will ensure regular reporting and an adequate monthly point to the General Management linked to your position, and the progress of the actions carried out and to be undertaken to achieve the development objectives, notably in terms of customer follow-up and commercial proposals.
• You will ensure regular monitoring of market elements, regulatory developments that may impact, influence or support the company's activities in the UK as well as in other key European countries.

8 to 10 years minimum experience in the Agency Private Debt Business Development with a proven understanding of the UK landscape as well with some international exposure.

• Strong operational knowledge of UK Private Debt markets and their functioning (technical, regulatory and legal).
• The willingness to take operational control of the development of an activity with all the commercial, marketing and field management challenges within the framework of a strong strategic will.
• Proficient in Office 360.
• Fluent in English, another European language (German, Dutch, Spanish) is a strong plus.

Aether Financial Services is positioned to benefit from those two disruptive trends. You are willing to fully express your potential, capitalising on your strong understanding of the Private Debt Agency Market to build and develop value-added services in the UK as well as abroad.

START DATE: asap in 2025

TYPE OF CONTRACT: full time contract