Investment Officer - FIG

8 - 13 years

10 - 15 Lacs

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  • Contribute to drafting strategies for sectors, countries, or regions for business development; and develop and execute strategies for more complex client engagements with the objective of building a robust investment or advisory pipeline.
  • Develop long-term relationships and engagement plans with key local clients to identify and act on opportunities for repeat business.
  • Draw comparisons with other industry projects across the region to determine fit with current portfolio and conduct quality control to ensure accuracy and adequacy of analytical work completed by junior staff.
  • Assess and articulate the development impact and IFC additionality of moderately complex transactions at the sector or subsector level. Engage with IFC economics team to build IFC development impact story.
  • Gather market intelligence to stay informed of emerging trends in sectors and the country that could have broad impact on a country or subsector portfolio.
  • Support structuring of moderately complex investment or advisory transactions incorporating lessons of project evaluations, insights from other Investment Officers, other project structuring and portfolio management experience. Ensure timely processing, thorough due diligence, and client satisfaction.
  • Thoroughly review work provided by clients and prepared by team members to ensure solid structure and consistency of legal documents with agreed-upon terms.
  • Maintain relationships with clients and other stakeholders (government, development partners, WBG). Negotiate moderately complex waivers, amendments, and rescheduling, and help prepare official restructuring memos for approval.
  • Participate in the design of approaches and interventions to create upstream markets and provide substantive input to key components of Country Private Sector Diagnostics.
  • Perform complex, credit risk rating assessments, covenant compliance reviews, loan loss reserves, valuations for country, region, or sector portfolio and development impact assessment. Review the quality of portfolio review work performed by more junior staff.
  • Prepare investment or advisory committee materials focusing on financial and nonfinancial risk assessments and deal structuring in moderately complex transactions, applying knowledge of policy and procedures and assessing exceptions where relevant.
  • Use networks to keep projects moving and collaborate with key internal stakeholders to obtain buy-in on deals and negotiate risk mitigation strategies.
  • Master s degree in finance, economics, business, accounting or related fields.
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, development finance, consulting, or senior operating roles within the sector.
  • Identify and enable market-creation opportunities across multiple countries through a long-term perspective, open-mindedness, persistence, innovation, and appropriate de-risking instruments; demonstrate clear understanding of IFC/WBG roles and value in nascent markets.
  • Cultivate and sustain long-term client relationships by evidencing deep knowledge of their business, sector, and culture; maintain continuous dialogue on needs, operations, strategy, and strategically aligned transaction opportunities.
  • Preserve client engagement throughout the portfolio lifecycle to identify growth prospects, remediate emerging issues, advance sustainability, and ensure attainment of development-impact objectives.
  • Establish and maintain extensive sectoral, country, and regional networks to originate engagements and business opportunities.
  • Communicate complex issues, approaches, and lessons clearly and persuasively in both written and oral form, tailored to client and stakeholder audiences.
  • Provide rigorous review and drafting support for business-specific documents; ensure final deliverables align with audience needs and institutional standards.
  • Articulate IFC s requirements, value add, associated financial and nonfinancial risks, and development impact and sustainability measurement in a manner comprehensible and relevant to clients and stakeholders.
  • Present and defend transaction rationale authoritatively; lead and oversee preparation of investment review memoranda, board papers, and complex portfolio documentation.
  • Supervise and develop staff engaged in business development, processing, portfolio management, or specialist areas by providing technical guidance, delegating appropriately, and optimizing team capability and workload balance.

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