Senior Investment Director

4 days ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa African Development Bank Group Full time

**Company Overview**

The African Development Bank Group is a premier pan-African development institution that promotes economic growth and social progress across the continent.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Investment Director to join our team in Pretoria, South Africa.

Job Summary

We are looking for a seasoned investment professional to originate, develop, lead, and execute private sector transactions (non-sovereign operations) in the agribusiness and rural finance space.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of successfully developing and executing complex financial transactions, strong analytical and financial structuring skills, and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Liaise and coordinate with other Investment Officers and Bank staff in business development and the origination of a good quality investment pipeline.
  2. Proactively identify potential investment partners and opportunities based on industry experience, reputation, market potential, financial capability, and strategic fit.
  3. Assess the attractiveness of specific investment opportunities with a strong focus on credit quality and development impact and make recommendations management.
  4. Build and maintain strong relationships with other departments, clients, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to develop specific investment opportunities.
  5. Prepare project appraisal reports for presentation to the department, review committees, senior management and finally to the Board of Directors.
  6. Execute loan, equity, quasi-equity, guarantee and risk management instrument financings including processing mandates, conducting due diligence, structuring deals, negotiating terms and documentation, arranging syndications, and processing internal approvals.
  7. Coordinate with sector colleagues, the internal approvals to proactively find pragmatic solutions to emerging/specific sector challenges.
  8. Develop investment promotion strategies in Africa, including targeting potential investors and promoting the Bank's products and services proactively.
  9. Work with the legal department to ensure that all deals have appropriate legal documentation and that financial close is achieved, and hand over projects to portfolio management staff; and
  10. Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to develop a strong pipeline for new investment opportunities.

Requirements

  • Must have a minimum of a Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance or other relevant field; a professional qualification – A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder will be a plus.
  • Ability for business development, structure and negotiate deals.
  • Strong analytical, financial structuring skills (including financial modeling experience) and sound business judgment.
  • Working experience in multinational organization in Africa and/or specialized experience in similar organization/s would be considered an advantage.
  • Demonstrates ability to coordinate, participate in, and act as a catalyst for, strategic cross-sector dialogues within the networks, across the country, among Bank colleagues and other development institutions, governments and other organizations.
  • Strong client relationship skills and ability to initiate, effectively and independently interact with C-suite executive and senior management of potential clients.
  • Knowledge of economic developments and market trends in Africa.
  • Ability to contribute to sound decisions and contribute to the execution of the decisions.
  • Ability to initiate, effectively and independently interact with the senior government officials, senior management of potential clients.
  • Strong commitment to search for and produce innovative and creative approaches to activities in order to enhance performance and create added benefits to the Bank and its clients.
  • Excellent problem-solving capabilities, applies business knowledge to the resolution of problems and identifies solutions to the benefit of the client (internal and external) and the organization.
  • Excellent organizational, administrative, and time management skills.
  • Proven ability to work with limited supervision and efficiently to deliver under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
  • Willingness to travel extensively and geographic flexibility.
  • Excellent presentation skills.
  • Ability to communicate orally and in writing effectively in English, with a good working knowledge of French.
  • Competence in the use of standard Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).

Salary:** R 1,500,000 - R 2,000,000 per annum

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including medical aid, retirement fund, life insurance, annual leave, sick leave, and severance pay.

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