Senior Investment Officer (Business Development / Private Equity / Finance) in a Pan-African Fund Management Company

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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