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What you’ll do

• Hold structured one-on-one sessions with a portfolio of entrepreneurs, working through the commercial and developmental challenges facing their businesses.
• Analyse businesses across finance, strategy, sales, marketing, operations and people to identify constraints, opportunities and underlying commercial issues.
• Help entrepreneurs interpret financial and operational information and translate it into better business decisions.
• Apply structured problem-solving to complex and sometimes ambiguous entrepreneurial challenges.
• Challenge assumptions, test logic and help entrepreneurs evaluate the trade-offs behind important business decisions.
• Work with entrepreneurs to strengthen their strategies, commercial models, sales approaches, marketing activities, operational systems and people practices.
• Help entrepreneurs move from identifying a problem to implementing practical solutions - while ensuring that they develop the capability to make better decisions independently.
• Facilitate business simulations, workshops and group learning interventions using Raizcorp’s programmes and methodology.
• Collaborate with other Guides, specialists and programme teams to support each entrepreneur’s development journey.

This role may be a strong fit for you if you are:

• A management consultant who enjoys the problem-solving component of consulting but wants a deeper relationship with the businesses and people you support.
• Someone who enjoys moving between different industries, business models and commercial problems.
• Commercially curious and naturally interested in understanding how businesses actually work.
• Comfortable working with incomplete information, ambiguity and problems that do not have textbook answers.
• Someone who enjoys challenging intelligent people without needing to prove that you are the cleverest person in the room.
• Interested not only in solving the problem, but in developing the entrepreneur’s ability to solve the next one.
• Energised by seeing recommendations move beyond a presentation and into the day-to-day reality of a business.

What you’ll need

• Meaningful experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, commercial advisory, corporate strategy or a closely related environment.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
• Excellent commercial acumen and the ability to understand how strategy, finance, sales, marketing, operations and people interact.
• Strong financial literacy and confidence interpreting business performance, financial statements and commercial drivers.
• Exposure to different businesses, sectors, business models or commercial challenges.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and practically.
• The confidence to challenge entrepreneurs while remaining constructive, respectful and non-judgemental.
• High emotional intelligence and genuine curiosity about people and entrepreneurship.
• An organised, disciplined and proactive working style.
• Confidence using technology and business systems, including Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Office.
• A commerce, business, finance, economics, engineering or similarly relevant tertiary qualification.
• An MBA or other postgraduate business qualification will be an advantage.
• A valid driver’s licence and your own vehicle.
• Entrepreneurial experience, including having built, operated or been closely involved in a business, will be a significant advantage.

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What you’ll do

• Hold structured one-on-one coaching sessions with a portfolio of entrepreneurs.
• Help entrepreneurs interpret their financial information and use it to make better commercial decisions.
• Guide business owners in understanding cash flow, profitability, margins, working capital and financial sustainability.
• Help entrepreneurs understand what their numbers are telling them about strategy, sales, pricing, operations and the overall health of their businesses.
• Challenge assumptions, interrogate business thinking and help entrepreneurs evaluate commercial risks and trade-offs.
• Work across the entrepreneur’s entire business, including finance, strategy, sales, marketing, operations, people and personal development.
• Help entrepreneurs strengthen their business models, commercial disciplines and decision-making capability.
• Facilitate business simulations, workshops and group learning interventions using Raizcorp’s programmes and methodology.
• Collaborate with other Guides, specialists and programme teams to support each entrepreneur’s development journey.

This role may be a strong fit for you if you are:

• A retired or retiring banker who still has a strong appetite for business and wants to remain professionally active.
• A former relationship manager, business banker, commercial banker, credit professional, corporate banker, regional banking leader or financial-services executive.
• Someone who has spent a career assessing businesses and now wants to help build them.
• A commercially minded finance professional who understands that the financial statements are often the result of decisions made elsewhere in the business.
• Someone who enjoys understanding how businesses work and helping people think through difficult decisions.
• An experienced professional looking for meaningful work without returning to a traditional corporate banking career.
• Patient enough to develop people, but confident enough to challenge them.
• Able to listen without immediately taking over or providing all the answers.
• Motivated by seeing an entrepreneur become more capable and commercially confident over time.

What you’ll need

• Substantial experience within banking, financial services, commercial finance or a closely related environment.
• Meaningful exposure to businesses, entrepreneurs, business owners or commercial clients during your career.
• Strong financial acumen and confidence interpreting financial statements, cash flow, profitability, margins and other drivers of business performance.
• Deep commercial judgement and the ability to understand the story behind the numbers.
• A practical understanding of how finance interacts with strategy, sales, pricing, marketing, operations and people.
• The ability to identify patterns, interrogate assumptions and evaluate commercial risk.
• The confidence to challenge entrepreneurs while remaining constructive, respectful and non-judgemental.
• High emotional intelligence and genuine empathy for the realities of entrepreneurship.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to make complex financial and commercial concepts understandable and practical.
• An organised, disciplined and proactive working style.
• Confidence using technology and business systems, including Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Office.
• A relevant commerce, finance, accounting, economics or business qualification.
• A postgraduate qualification will be an advantage.
• A valid driver’s licence and your own vehicle.
• Experience owning, running or investing in your own business will be a significant advantage.