GMP Worldwide
Director – Debt & Leveraged Finance
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Debt Advisory Director
Manchester | Hybrid | £95,000–£120,000 + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Options
The Opportunity
Our client is a highly regarded independent corporate finance advisory business looking to appoint an experienced Debt Advisory Director to its growing Manchester team.
This is a senior appointment for an individual with genuine technical depth across debt structuring, leverage and debt/equity capital structures.
The successful individual will advise shareholders, management teams, and investors on the appropriate funding structure for acquisitions, growth, refinancing, recapitalisations, and other strategic transactions.
Critically, this role requires someone capable of looking beyond simply sourcing debt. You will understand how much leverage a business can sustainably support, how debt and equity interact within the capital structure, and how different funding instruments affect returns, liquidity, covenant headroom, and financial risk.
The Role
You will lead transactions from initial assessment and capital structure analysis through lender engagement, negotiation, and completion.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Advising clients on debt capacity, leverage, and optimal debt/equity capital structures.
- Assessing businesses through a lender and investor lens, including cash-flow generation, debt serviceability, leverage ratios, covenant headroom, and downside scenarios.
- Structuring financing solutions across senior debt, leveraged finance, unitranche, private credit, asset-based lending, and other alternative capital.
- Supporting acquisition financing, MBOs, refinancing, recapitalisations, and growth capital transactions.
- Evaluating the appropriate balance between debt and equity funding, including the impact of leverage on shareholder returns and financial risk.
- Building and interrogating integrated financial models, including leverage, debt service, and covenant sensitivities.
- Leading lender processes from preparation of financing materials and lender selection through to term-sheet comparison, negotiation, credit approval, and completion.
- Managing relationships across clearing banks, debt funds, private credit, challenger banks, ABL providers, and other specialist lenders.
- Working directly with shareholders, management teams, private equity investors, and professional advisers throughout complex transactions.
- Supporting origination and developing long-term relationships across the UK mid-market.
- Providing leadership and technical development to junior members of the team.
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About You
We're particularly interested in individuals who can demonstrate meaningful experience of leveraged and cash-flow lending, rather than a background weighted exclusively towards traditional asset-backed lending.
You are likely to bring:
- Significant experience within Debt Advisory, Leveraged Finance, Acquisition Finance, Private Credit, or Corporate Banking.
- Strong technical understanding of leverage and debt/equity structuring.
- Experience assessing enterprise value, debt capacity, and sustainable leverage in a transactional environment.
- Strong knowledge of cash-flow lending and leveraged credit analysis, including EBITDA adjustments, leverage multiples, debt service, covenants, and downside analysis.
- Experience structuring and executing financing for M&A, leveraged buyouts, MBOs, refinancings, and recapitalisations.
- An understanding of different layers of the capital structure and their respective risk, pricing, security, ranking, and return characteristics.
- The commercial judgement to challenge assumptions and determine whether a proposed capital structure is genuinely sustainable.
- Established relationships across the UK lending and alternative capital markets.
- The credibility to operate directly with business owners, management teams, lenders, investors, and senior advisers.
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Why This Opportunity?
This is an opportunity to join an entrepreneurial advisory environment where you will have genuine influence over transactions rather than operating within a narrow execution remit.
The position offers significant autonomy, direct client exposure, and the opportunity to play a leading role in developing the firm's Debt Advisory capability across the UK.
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