Business Development Director

Company: Fintelligent
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will build and manage a high-value invoice finance portfolio, developing a pipeline through direct outreach and professional introducers. You will collaborate with lending and credit teams to deliver funding solutions to SMEs, focusing on long-term relationships. The role is autonomous and relationship-led, offering the opportunity to make a tangible commercial impact within a well-established financial services organisation. You will help businesses access growth funding while shaping the invoicing finance proposition.

Pay / Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Car allowance
  • Pension scheme
  • Holiday entitlement
  • Private medical insurance

Responsibilities

  • Generate new invoice finance opportunities through direct BD, existing customers, and introducers
  • Build and manage relationships with brokers, accountants, and intermediaries to maintain a sustainable pipeline
  • Collaborate with credit, relationship management, and business support teams to deliver funding solutions
  • Promote the invoice finance proposition while upholding high service standards and regulatory compliance

Key requirements

  • Proven experience in BD roles within invoice finance, banking or lending
  • Strong knowledge of invoice finance, asset-based lending and commercial banking products
  • Experience building relationships with SMEs, intermediaries, and commercial customers; ability to read financial statements
  • Relationship-building
  • Commercial acumen
  • Communications
  • Invoice finance
  • Asset-based lending
  • Commercial banking products

Posted: September 14th, 2026