Investment Officer

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• Understand industry drivers, business/ market development cycles, and how business performance and long-term competitiveness/viability are measured within the industry and how industry dynamics may evolve within a country/ region.
• Identify barriers for market creation opportunities in a targeted country by tapping into relevant internal expertise and synthesizing information on local regulatory and economic context, industry/ sector and landscape, and constraints clients are facing to grow their business.
• Build productive and mutually beneficial relationships/networks internally and externally to identify business opportunities, discuss structuring alternatives, and resolve issues.
• Provide insight into sector developments in Southern Africa countries to anticipate new investment opportunities and/or performance issues.
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders (government, development partners, WBG) to explore business opportunities.
• Support upstream initiatives across the World Bank to unlock constraints to financial sector growth and inclusion in the region and globally.
• Engage with mid-level clients of projects to understand business directions and challenges that may lead to new opportunities and support design of client engagement plans, as applicable.
• Collaborate in developing client strategies/ engagement plans and pitch books for industry and countries.
• Work with the team on developing new opportunities, managing internal and external stakeholders, investment processing and portfolio management. 
• Analyze operational and financial performance as well as credit and integrity risks of potential clients/projects.
• Provide key support, and in some cases lead in identification, appraisal, structuring and negotiation of financial sector investments incorporating lessons learned from IFC’s earlier investments and portfolio management.
• Build complex financial models (including for equity valuations), perform due diligence and financial analysis, and/or provide quality control over financial analysis/projections developed by analyst to evaluate benefits and risks of transactions.
• Identify and analyze fundamental competitive strengths and weaknesses of projects or portfolio companies and identify non-financial issues, opportunities and risk/reward factors (e.g. business environment, country, and sponsor). 
• Perform assessments related to Paris Alignment and Climate Risk in investments.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to identify ways to strengthen development impact and financial sustainability of projects.
• Actively keep abreast of regional and industry developments and incorporates trends into the processing or supervision of projects.
• Handle disbursements, waivers and complex client interactions such as restructurings; monitor and value equity investments and recommends/executes the sale of holdings.
• Follow up-with mid and senior level clients to resolve problems on projects.
• Monitor existing investments in portfolio companies, comprising various types of financial entities.
• Review and analyze the financial and operating performance of clients, including covenant compliance reviews and impact reporting; prepare quarterly risk ratings, annual supervision and other management reports as well as country strategy papers, briefs and project profiles.
• Perform rating reviews or loan loss reserve on a quarterly basis for the overall assigned portfolio and monitor changes to risk flags to determine performance of assigned portfolio with limited supervision.
• Apply knowledge of project/portfolio lifecycle to identify and meet critical path milestones, and to implement tasks (including production of documents) in a timely and high-quality fashion for the processing or supervision of projects.
• Supervise and ensure quality of portfolio reporting information prepared by junior staff, providing broader industry, sub-sector and country perspective into project risks and issues.

• Master’s degree in finance, economics or other related areas; as CFA or CPA accreditation is considered a plus.
• At least 7-9 years of relevant experience in the financial sector, with a proven track-record of sourcing, structuring and closing investments preferably both in equity and debt, including through the capital markets; experience in portfolio management.
• Good understanding of financial and operational characteristics of financial institutions, including their business drivers and scope of operations.
• Good understanding of IFC’s financial instruments, requirements, main investment agreements/ standard contracts and provisions, all aspects of transactions to provide input for optimal structuring of a prospective opportunity, and internal deal and portfolio processing.
• Proven analytical, financial analysis, equity valuation, and financial modelling skills to analyze and form conclusions on company financial information or projects and industry indicators.
• Ability to oversee and provide quality control feedback on financial models prepared by analysts.
• Understanding of credit and non-financial risks associated with straightforward projects and specific aspects of a complex project, and how to satisfactorily mitigate those risks based on understanding of how IFC assesses risk/ reward tradeoffs.
• Ability to draft documents and reports that are concise, well-organized, and appropriately focused on most critical points that are relevant to the target audience.
• Sound business judgment and strong problem solving/negotiation skills, as well as ability to work effectively on simultaneous projects under time pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in English (French or Portuguese proficiency a plus).
• A keen interest in development finance and working in a multicultural environment.

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