LONDON - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR - AGENCY PRIVATE DEBT

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.

Agency services
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.

Valuation and calculation
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.

Corporate and Issuer Services
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.

Job Description
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 will be:

• To 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.
• To formalize the communication/marketing supports to promote Aether FS's offers while also being a force of proposal on essential evolutions to reinforce our positioning on the market.
• To secure and support the development and visibility on the targeted markets, in relation with the Communication Department, by formalizing the formats of the supports and actions to support the development of the activity: blog, articles, webinars, events.
• To coordinate and act in the realization of the development actions of the offers and this activity vis-à-vis the identified targets by relying on existing customer contacts and new targets in the UK and Continental Europe.
• To 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.
• To 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.

Your Profile
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). Highly motivated, entrepreneurial, independent, and hungry to grow in a favorable environment. Proficient in Office 360. Fluent in English, another European language (German, Dutch, Spanish) is a strong plus. Good interpersonal skills / likes to work in a team, accountability and sense of customer relationship, autonomy.

Why Joining Us?
In a company with high potential, you will join a very dynamic and customer-centric team. Disintermediation and technology are changing the established orders; Aether Financial Services is positioned to benefit from those two disruptive trends. You are willing to fully express your potential, capitalizing 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
Location: London – City (near Cannon Street)
Type of Contract: full time contract

To Apply: Send us a CV and a cover letter to jobs@aetherfs.com and please, refer to AFS UK BD Director PD Agency.