Investment Operations Associate - Octopus Ventures

What’s in it for you? 

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to help invest in the people, companies, and industries that will change the world. This broad role offers a great learning opportunity where each day is different. You'll get exposure to all the investment teams and build a strong network which is the nature of this group.

The team:

An effective operations team is crucial to enabling Octopus Ventures to meet its objectives in the European and global VC community. You will join our existing operations team to help ensure the investment processes, governance, and related obligations are executed seamlessly as we continue to grow our business.

What will you be doing? 

• The role’s primary focus is to coordinate and support the investment and divestment processes across our various funds.
• Understanding the steps of the investment and divestment processes to ensure the Ops and investment team adhere to them.
• Drafting, reviewing, and distributing key communications to Investment Committees, Boards, investors, and other key external stakeholders.
• Undertaking and overseeing the recording of our investment or divestment data in various systems (including in accordance with relevant FCA regulation).
• Consulting and liaising with investment leads and legal counsel during investment and divestment processes, using your knowledge of our processes and risk tolerances to manage workload priorities as part of a team.
• Administration of relevant client or regulatory reporting following completion of an investment or divestment, including VCT or EIS fund-related matters.
• Liaising with core teams across Octopus and suppliers externally to keep things running smoothly and information flowing between us seamlessly at all times.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• A basic understanding of venture capital, private equity or equity investments, although you don’t need to have worked in our part of the industry before - we welcome transferable skill sets and recognise that diverse working backgrounds make us stronger overall.
• Superb administration and organisation skills a strong sense of urgency, and an excellent sense of how to prioritise and manage your own workload.
• Consistent and superior attention to detail.
• The ability to apply critical thinking to complex processes.
• Be curious and comfortable asking questions.
• Competency with databases and numbers and the technology that surrounds them.
• Articulate and professional written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to spot issues before they happen or volunteer to solve them when they do.

What we offer

💰 A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan 
✈️ Untracked holiday 
🏡 Hybrid working –  most of our people spend 3 days a week in the office
⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP & more 
👪 Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender 
❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection 
🏥 Private medical insurance for you and your family 
🚗 Electric vehicle leasing 
🌍 The option to work overseas up to a month per year 

Our Values 
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.   

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.