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Associate Investment Officer – Equity

Job #: req31866

Organization: IFC

Sector: Investment

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: London,United Kingdom

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 2/27/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the most important international improvement establishment centered on the non-public sector in rising markets. We work in additional than 100 nations, utilizing our capital, experience, and affect to create markets and alternatives. Our mission is to leverage the facility of the non-public sector to finish excessive poverty and increase shared prosperity on a livable planet. For extra info, please go to www.ifc.org.

The Europe Infrastructure and Energy unit is an open and dynamic workforce, which develops, advises, buildings and invests in infrastructures throughout various sectors together with energy, transportation, telecom, know-how, city infrastructure and utilities. Our geographic focus consists of Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. Our workforce members are positioned in Vienna (principal hub), Belgrade, Bucharest, Kyiv, London, Paris, Tbilisi, Warsaw and Zagreb.

We are looking for an Associate Investment Officer to hitch our workforce in London, United Kingdom, in part to work carefully with the Europe Infrastructure and Equity lead and different fairness-centered colleagues to assist proceed to develop and handle IFC’s fairness and mezzanine enterprise. The ideally suited candidate will carry confirmed fairness abilities in funding evaluation monetary modeling, market evaluation, and venture administration to judge new funding alternatives, conduct rigorous monetary and funding evaluation, and contribute to the structuring and execution of transactions, and to portfolio administration, with a robust give attention to fairness and mezzanine investments. This function gives a singular alternative to construct relationships with purchasers, oversee venture milestones and contribute to sustainable non-public sector funding that assist alleviate poverty and enhance folks’s lives in rising markets. The chosen candidate will work throughout all IFC’s mandate nations in rising Europe.

Duties and accountabilities :

• Develop an intensive understanding of the aforementioned infrastructure and power sub-sector in rising Europe and assist the workforce in constructing sturdy relationships with key counterparts within the non-public and public sectors.
• Participate in fairness enterprise improvement actions within the area consistent with infrastructure and power funding themes.
• Identify potential funding companions and alternatives based mostly on business expertise, observe file, status, market potential, monetary functionality, and strategic match.
• Assess the attractiveness of particular funding alternatives with a robust give attention to funding benefit and improvement influence and make suggestions to IFC administration.
• Execute primarily fairness, and mezzanine financings, together with conducting due diligence, structuring offers, negotiating phrases, constructing monetary fashions, and portfolio administration, throughout the assorted infrastructure sub-sectors. The candidate is predicted to work predominately on fairness transactions however could possibly be required to often work on debt transactions relying on enterprise wants.
• The chosen candidate is predicted to leverage the place’s location in London to assist the aforementioned enterprise improvement actions, deal origination, transaction execution, and portfolio supervision by working carefully with funding banks, advisory companies, and institutional traders which can be based mostly in London.
• Work carefully throughout departments to assist the event and implementation of related sector methods.
• Work carefully with IFC’s specialists to handle environmental, social, technical, authorized, insurance coverage, company governance, and different dangers in initiatives.
• Support consumer adherence to funding phrases, generate supervision studies, detect early dangers, and strategize for resolutions or restructurings as wanted.
• Provide prime quality consumer service all through the venture cycle from transaction sourcing and processing to supervision. emruvD6 BIpnb
• Prepare prime quality portfolio studies, offering business, sector, and nation views into funding evaluation.
• Engage with consumer counterparts to know their enterprise instructions and assist the design of consumer engagement plans and observe-as much as resolve issues as wanted.

Selection Criteria

• At least 5 years of labor expertise for a significant industrial or funding financial institution with a big rising markets presence, a global monetary establishment or an infrastructure or a non-public fairness fund supervisor.
• Experience in sourcing, structuring and executing fairness transactions, and managing advanced investments is a requirement. Track file in doing so throughout infrastructure and power sub-sectors is a requirement. Experience with debt merchandise – e.g. company debt, venture finance – is a plus.
• Experience in rising markets and data of worldwide greatest practices and international traits within the business.
• Understanding of business drivers, enterprise/market cycles, efficiency metrics, and evolving business dynamics inside a rustic/area.
• Proven analytical, monetary evaluation, fairness valuation, and monetary modelling abilities to research and kind conclusions on firm monetary info or initiatives.
• Ability to supervise and supply high quality management suggestions on monetary fashions ready by analysts.
• Strong consumer relationship abilities, observe file and skill to give attention to consumer wants successfully.
• Ability to determine and independently monitor the milestones and deliverables of the work program.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities in English, with the flexibility to speak clearly and concisely each orally and in writing. Fluency in different languages spoken in rising Europe is a plus.
• Willingness to journey extensively and geographic flexibility.
• Ability to work in culturally numerous and geographically dispersed groups

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group gives complete advantages, together with a retirement plan; medical, life and incapacity insurance coverage; and paid depart, together with parental depart, in addition to affordable lodging for people with disabilities.

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