Senior Director - Finance, Strategic Finance

Senior Director - Growth Finance, Strategic Finance

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Growth Finance is our UK-wide venture debt proposition, providing senior debt and transactional banking facilities to innovative, high-growth businesses.

This Senior Director position is a relationship portfolio role where you’ll be responsible for driving value through proactive portfolio management, building deep and trusted relationships with existing customers, and working closely with management teams, investors and key stakeholders to support performance and navigate critical business milestones. Using your commercial judgement and understanding of the venture debt market, you’ll lead the end-to-end management of client relationships, including ongoing credit stewardship, monitoring, restructurings where required, and identifying opportunities to deepen relationships and deliver additional income, all while operating within our risk and regulatory framework.

This role sits within our Growth Finance team and is focused on managing and developing a portfolio of venture debt connections within Strategic Finance. The successful candidate will be responsible for building deep, trusted relationships with existing clients, applying strong commercial judgement and market insight to support portfolio performance, identify emerging risks and deliver sustainable income in line with our credit and regulatory framework.

We are a well-established and respected participant in the UK venture debt market, with a strong and proven track record of supporting high-growth businesses. Our portfolio comprises fast-scaling, innovation-led and technology-enabled companies, where our non-dilutive capital plays a critical role in enabling growth. Through proactive portfolio management, we work closely with management teams, investors and wider stakeholders to help businesses navigate key inflection points, extend their cash runway and maximise long-term value while protecting founder and investor equity.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

For this job you’ll be located at our Glasgow hub.
There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events, this is anticipated to be weekly in Glasgow. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

• This Senior Director position is a relationship portfolio role where you’ll be responsible for driving value through proactive portfolio management, building deep and trusted relationships with existing customers, and working closely with management teams, investors and key stakeholders to support performance and navigate critical business milestones.
• Lead the end‑to‑end management of client relationships, including ongoing credit stewardship, monitoring, restructurings where required, and identifying opportunities to deepen relationships and deliver additional income while operating within our risk and regulatory framework.
• Lead and support the venture debt portfolio team, with people leader responsibilities, providing guidance and support in complex situations and helping to set clear priorities and ensure work is completed to a high standard.
• Develop and build strong relationships with portfolio companies, closely and diligently monitoring and controlling risk whilst also being proactive and alert to identify new lending opportunities within the portfolio.
• Advocate for the financial institution and provide superior standards and customer service to maintain our strong reputation in the market, positioning us well for warm referrals and introductions into new companies, relationships and lending opportunities.
• Look to open doors for our origination team with warm introductions to venture capital and private equity funds that are…