CA Global – Our client is a pan-African Fund Management company focused on investments in medium sized companies in Sub-saharan Africa. They have an office in Nigeria that oversees their Anglo-phone west Africa operations.
They are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Investment Officer (Business Development / Private Equity / Finance)
Reference Number: CDTSIO
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
- Responsible for business development and generating investment pipeline
- Lead the investment process including deal sourcing, initial deal screening, conduct preliminary analysis and evaluation, structuring and due diligence, portfolio management including creating value add opportunities, reporting and exit planning.
- Deal Screening:
- Ensure that the potential transactions are in line with the Fund’s strategy, development impact objectives and highlight relevant regulatory and reputational risks, conflict of interest and environmental and social issues.
- Due Diligence:
- Manage and interact with the different consultants as regards making investment decisions.
- Portfolio Monitoring:
- Interact with the management of portfolio companies and review performance on regular basis.
- Discuss with portfolio companies the strategies or action steps to enhance performance.
- Deliberately seek to create value add opportunities in addition to those contemplated in the investment thesis
- Oversee the compilation of periodic reports (monthly, quarterly and annual reports).
- Distribute investor quarterly and annual reports.
- Investment Exit Management:
- Oversee exit activities to ensure expected value is realized from portfolio companies.
- Lead exit process and negotiation with eventual advisors
- Leadership and People Management:
- Provide oversight, direction and coaching to junior team members.
Requirements
Qualifications and Skill:
- Bachelor’s Degree in finance or Relevant
- A Master’s Degree will be an advantage
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in Originating, Prospecting, Managing Portfolio Companies
- Experience working with Investments
- A strong, and wide network of existing relationships within the AWA region
- Significant experience of leading all aspects of the deal process
- An excellent investment track record
- Excellent leadership, negotiation and relationship management skills
- Should enjoy working in a growing team with an entrepreneurial, high-performance culture
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; Any additional language is a plus
Personality Attributes:
- Adaptable, creative and resourceful
- Dynamic, self-motivated with a lot of work energy
- Long term focus in this field, seek deeper values and ability to develop a strong sense of ownership and responsibility, requiring minimal supervision
- Knowledgeable, professional and give attention to details
- Assertive with a very positive attitude.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: Cdutoit@caglobalint.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
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