Head of Capital Markets

Novicap is an end-to-end working capital solutions provider focused on enabling CFOs/Finance teams of SMEs to pay their suppliers and collect from their customers. This includes short-term credit (factoring, supply chain finance and loans) and payment automation solutions.

With offices in Barcelona and Madrid, we are currently looking for a **Head of Capital Markets**. In close collaboration with the CEO, you will be responsible for ensuring that Novicap is adequately funded.

Sounds interesting? Keep reading

**What will you do?**

As mentioned, you will be responsible, together with the CEO, for ensuring that Novicap is adequately funded both: (i) for its own operating needs, at corporate level; as well as (ii) for its credit platform, using structured finance agreements with third parties like credit funds and other financial institutions.

In order to achieve your mission, you will:

- With respect to Corporate Capital Markets
- Manage relationships with existing shareholders (including Tier 1 venture capital firms like Partech)
- Develop relationships with prospective shareholders, ranging from growth equity funds to financial services private equity funds
- Establish and nurture relationships with potential corporate debt providers such as commercial banks (as of today, Novicap is free of any corporate debt)
- When relevant, coordinate deal execution with existing and prospective investors or debt providers
- Benchmark Novicap against the European’s Fintech Lending market and Spain’s Alternative Lending market to better position our equity story
- With respect to Credit Platform Capital Markets:

- Analytics / Marketing:

- Run regular analysis of the credit portfolio we originate, in order to understand our performance and feedback to other business areas on areas for improvement
- Benchmark Novicap’s platform against the European trade receivable financing market to better understand our positioning as an asset originator
- Write up and keep up-to-date presentations or memos for use with our existing and prospective funders
- Existing funders’ relationship management:

- Manage relationships with our key existing funding partners, which are credit funds and other financial institutions
- Dealing with existing funding partners’ queries, including reporting (e.g. monthly servicer report) or analytics requests
- Platform treasury management: design and maintain a system to optimize cash deployment rate of our various funding facilities, by balancing transfer requests with business activity (repayments vs. originations)
- New funders’ business development: identify and grow relationships with prospective funders, for both existing and new products
- Deal structuring and execution: managing the whole lifecycle of a structured finance transaction, from ideation to term sheet to long-form documentation

In doing so, you will contribute to the achievement of Novicap’s long-term growth plans.

**How will you do it?**

With integrity. transparency and clarity are the cornerstones of our work. We honor our agreements and take responsibility for our actions. Furthermore, we are aware that we can always improve and we welcome feedback, in order to continue to grow.

We always strive to exceed expectations, ensuring the highest levels of professionalism, and we aim to outperform, taking a data-driven approach.

And finally, we are generous and give first. We support and contribute to our community, seeking the common good above our own interests.

**Who will you be working with?**

You will report directly to the CEO and work closely with the rest of the teams across Barcelona, Madrid and the rest of Spain. We are a young and dynamic team that’s waiting for you with arms open

**You are the right fit if you**:

- Have more than 10 years of experience in structured finance (asset-backed or trade finance securitization) in a transaction-oriented role, covering origination, structuring and execution
- Have excellent analytical skills, in particular using Excel to conduct portfolio reviews
- Have proven ability to construct and synthesize an investment thesis in a presentation or demo format
- Have demonstrated capacity to present confidently to third-party investors and develop such relations over time
- Have a network of funders and institutional investors in the structured finance space
- Are a smart thinker with strategic vision
- Are self-starter and have good interpersonal skills
- Have high attention to details and accuracy, and are transparent and honest
- Meet tight deadlines while collaborating with multiple teams in the organization

Bonus point if you have at least one experience in a Fintech company.

**What can we offer you?**
- Full-time job with permanent contract
- Hybrid office/remote work model to improve your your personal and working life balance
- Amazing and highly-motivated colleagues to work with
- You’ll join us for our company-wide events and be able to meet the rest of