Senior Investment Associate

1 week ago

Sandton, South Africa Edge Executive Search Full time

A driver in promoting, enabling, implementing and developing innovative investment and transformation solutions to advance sustainable black economic participation in the economy, is looking seeking a Senior Investment Associate.

**Industry**:
Financial Services
**Job category**:
Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking
**Location**:
Sandton
**Contract**:
Permanent

**Business Development / Transaction Origination**
- Pro-actively develop business development strategies and pursue new business development through excellent understanding of market and stakeholder networks.
- Identifies lucrative market opportunities through an excellent understanding and interpretation of sector analyses, including market structure, supply and demand aspects, competitor environment, and gap analysis and taking actions accordingly.
- Actively participate in formulating, developing, and implementing the business development strategy to generate new investment opportunities in the South African BEE financing market.
- Engage in the activities and efforts required for the implementation of the business development plan.
- Conduct business development in response to new markets, products, and clients.
- Develop strategic relationships with financial institutions, corporate finance advisors, other intermediaries, and BEE
- Participate and represent the business at investment conferences and roundtable discussions.
- Engage in activities that ensure the investment initiatives are in support of broader South African economic development strategies and/or government BEE strategies.

**Transaction Execution**
- Act independently in all spheres of project management, expert in deal structuring and negotiations.
- Acknowledged as a very experienced deal maker/ transactor both within and outside of the organisation.
- Manage and influence internal decision making and transaction processes to obtain investment approval.
- Utilize expert knowledge (of BEE market, financial market, macro-economic environment sector) as to support, lead in identifying and suggesting/recommending appropriate mitigation measures on key risk issues.
- Conduct comprehensive due diligence investigations on approved transactions by providing input on scoping and partaking in due diligence exercises with mínimal support.
- Recommend, develop, negotiate innovative/optimum/appropriate finance and legal structures for each investment deal ensuring long term sustainability/viability of the project to the benefit of the client and organisation.
- Provide advice, guidance to legal department on the commercial terms in the preparation of legal documentation.
- Negotiate with clients/co-financiers on an acceptable deal structure, financial terms, security to ensure successful deal closure incorporate and writing reports.
- Ensure the timeous execution of legal documents in accordance with approved term sheets.
- Acknowledged reputation within the organisation and externally based on successful deal closure and expertise.
- Act as a mentor to Investment Associates and Investment Analyst.
- Oversees and manages the implementation of projects through timeous disbursements paid out to the satisfaction of the client.
- Provides expertise on structures recommended to FMCD IC by Investment Associates.
- Pro-actively identify potential areas of non-compliance, increased risk and set-up/initiate an action programme accordingly.

**Deal Sustainability / Risk Management / Portfolio Management**
- Responsible for surveillance, compliance, pro-actively anticipates and implements corrective actions, lead discussions in negotiating possible solutions.
- Makes recommendations on effective solutions to sustain client relationships in the event of a default without causing a dilution in the asset value of the organisation.
- Represents the organisation on Boards of Directors of selected investee companies accordingly.

**Minimum requirements**
- BCom degree in Finance/ Accounting
- Post Grad added advantage
- 5 years similar experience in private equity/project finance/structured finance
- Deal structuring
- Project management

For more information please contact:
**Lihle Fikizolo

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