M&A Intern

Job description

The company Small businesses move fast. Opportunities often don’t wait, and cash flow pressures can appear overnight. To keep going, and growing, SMEs need finance that’s as flexible and responsive as they are. That's why we built iwoca. Our smart technology, data science and five-star customer service ensures business owners can act with the speed, confidence and control they need, exactly when it's needed. We’ve already cleared the way for 100,000 businesses with more than £4 billion in funding. Our passionate team is driven to help even more SMEs succeed, through access to better finance and other services that make running a business easier. Our ultimate mission is to support one million SMEs in their defining moments, creating lasting impact for the communities and economies they drive. We're looking for an M&A Intern to join manda, iwoca's M&A platform. This is a paid off-cycle internship of up to 6 months, for someone who wants to build a long-term career in fintech - Hybrid in London. manda is where AI meets Mergers & Acquisitions. Over the last months we've built a proposition for buying and selling UK small businesses. Our first deals are done, and our pipeline is growing across both sell-side and buy-side. Most M&A firms shy away from the sub-£10m EV segment because information asymmetry, lack of knowledge, and low transaction sizes make it hard to serve profitably. iwoca has 150,000+ SME customers in the UK and a track record of building clean, automated processes, and manda is leveraging that to build an M&A platform that serves this market properly. Your edge as an intern: you'll work on live sub-£10m transactions from week one, not pitch books for deals you'll never touch. You'll see the full deal lifecycle (origination, diligence, execution, close) inside a venture small enough that the work you do moves the business, and you'll have AI and automation as leverage rather than as a side project. The team You'll sit inside the manda Deal Team and work directly with the people running the platform: our sell-side and buy-side Transaction Managers, our Due Diligence Manager, and the Venture Lead. The team is small enough that you'll be in the room for real decisions on live deals, and the tooling we use (CRM, VDR, AI automated workflows) is being built in parallel by the same people you'll be working alongside. The role The internship is split int…