Account Executive, Funding Circle

FlexiPay

£37-37.8k

OTE

£30k

BASE

Junior level
London

2-3 days a week in office

Funding Circle

Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed

Open for applications

Funding Circle

Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed

1001+ employees

FintechB2BMarketplaceLendingFinancial Services

Open for applications

£37-37.8k

OTE

£30k

BASE

Junior level
London

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

FintechB2BMarketplaceLendingFinancial Services

Company mission

We back small businesses with the finance they need to succeed. At Funding Circle, we understand running a business is hard work so we provide a fast, hassle-free experience for businesses looking for finance - with SME experts based in the UK.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience of working in a telesales or phone based environment
  • Motivated by success in numbers and driven to achieve your monthly targets
  • Able to easily connect with people and demonstrate natural interpersonal skills - including teamwork!
  • Good organisation skills and ability to managing your workload autonomously
  • Quick to learn and invested in your own development

What the job involves

  • We are looking for an Account Executive in our FlexiPay Team
  • This is an exciting opportunity to join our FlexiPay Sales team and play a part in scaling Funding Circle’s newest product
  • This is a fantastic starting point to a challenging and rewarding career in B2B sales
  • As an Account Executive in FlexiPay, you embody one of our most important selling points: personal support for our customers
  • Every day you will speak to a diverse range of SME business owners to gain an understanding of their business, find out about their goals and explain how Funding Circle can help in achieving them
  • Responsible for driving sign-ups, converting leads and encouraging repeat usage of the product whilst also collecting valuable customer insights that will feed directly into the ongoing development of the FlexiPay product
  • Establishing instant rapport with your customers via telephone & email to cultivate successful relationships
  • Pitching the Funding Circle proposition against alternative funding options available
  • Managing a high-volume, fast-paced pipeline; supporting your clients through each stage of the application
  • Being responsible for your own monthly target and continuously developing & improving your approach to help you get there
  • Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.

This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.

The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. More recently, however, trading in the group’s core UK market has been helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

40% female employees

9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Focus on employee wellbeing

"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jan 2017

$98.9m

SERIES F

Apr 2015

$150m

SERIES E

Total funding: $371.3m

Company benefits

  • Annual learning budget
  • Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
  • 5% Matched Pension
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Access to Wellhub (formally Gym Pass)
  • Dental Insurance
  • Just Eat for Business 2 days when in the office

Company values

  • Think smart
  • Obsess over the customer
  • Make it happen
  • Be open
  • Stand together
  • Live the adventure

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Leadership

Samir Desai

(Non Executive Director)

Previously a Consultant at BCG and an Investment Executive at Olivant focused on financial services businesses. Awarded a CBE for services to financial services in 2015.

Lisa is CEO of Funding Circle. She is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.

Andrew Mullinger

(Co-founder)

Founded Funding Circle in 2009 until hiring his replacement in 2016.

James Meekings

(Co-Founder)

Co-founded Funding Circle in 2009 and was UK MD up until to 2019. He now spends his time helping, and investing in, early stage companies.

Sam Hodges

(Co-Founder)

Sam founded our US business and was US MD up until 2018.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Funding Circle

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Poonam Verma (Director of Talent Development, Culture & Belonging)

  • It’s in our differences that we find our strengths!
  • We celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. So we’re building a culture where difference is valued. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe diversity makes us better. We particularly encourage applications from applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. We welcome applicants who may want to work flexibly

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