Investment Principal

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Edge Growth Full time

**Job purpose**

**Reports to**:Chief Investment Officer
**Reportees (position)**: Senior investment Associates or Associate Principals

**Core activities**

**Deal origination**
- Build and maintain a network of deal sources within the early-stage investment ecosystem that regularly introduce high quality opportunities into the fund’s pipeline.

**Deal evaluation**
- Manage a pipeline of potential investments at different stages of the screening process and support team members in managing their pipelines. Direct team members in crafting high level investment thesis and, together with financial evaluation and investment structuring, motivate transactions to the rest of the deal team. Build strong relationships with Founders of early-stage companies.

**Project management**
- Executing all of the above within a strongly project managed work process is essential.

**Investment process improvement**
- Embrace the ethos of continual improvement in identifying and driving initiatives to enhance or re-engineer existing processes to increase efficiency in the deal-making process.

**Investor Relations**
- Support Fund Owners and CIO in investor client relations and design of new Funds

**Deal Execution**
- Due diligence:

- Plan and execute commercial and financial due diligences with multiple workstreams
- Undertake focused research and analysis as part of the due diligence process to understand the growth potential of a small business
- Analyse historical financials and conduct financial modelling in order to value the company
- Review team outputs and prepare high quality investment reports
- Build strong rapport with the Investment Committee and successfully present investment opportunities to them
- Closing: Managing the process of:

- Drafting, negotiation and execution of legal agreements ensuring they accurately reflect the approved term sheet
- Effective transaction hand-over process and on-going collaboration with PIM and GS teams
- Governance and record keeping leveraging team member support

**Teambuilding**
- Develop the Associate Principals and Associates through coaching and mentoring relationships and training on technical topics

**Qualifications & Experience**
- At least a graduate degree, preferably with a technical and / or quantitative emphasis (finance, engineering, accounting, law, etc)
- An MBA, CA(SA) or CFA degree would be advantageous
- 7-8 years in corporate finance, debt or equity investing or business consulting with a balance between business strategy and operations exposure.
- Leadership experience is essential

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