The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and most famous development bank in the world and is an observer at the United Nations Development Group. We are seeking an Investment Officer for our Financial Institutions Group based in Nairobi. This role involves providing key support in the identification, appraisal, structuring, and negotiation of financial sector investments while managing portfolio companies and client relationships.
Duties and Accountabilities
Provide key support in identification, appraisal, structuring and negotiation of financial sector investments.
Identify and analyze fundamental competitive strengths and weaknesses of projects or portfolio companies and identify non-financial issues, opportunities and risk/reward factors (e.g. business environment, country, and sponsor).
Handle disbursements, waivers and complex client interactions such as restructurings; monitor and value equity investments and recommends/executes the sale of holdings.
Monitor existing investments in portfolio companies, comprising various types of financial entities.
Review and analyze the financial and operating performance of clients; prepare quarterly risk ratings, annual supervision and other management reports as well as country strategy papers, briefs and project profiles.
Handle client relationships and provide insight into sector developments in client countries to anticipate new investment opportunities and/or performance issues.
Apply knowledge of project/portfolio lifecycle to identify and meet critical path milestones, and to implement tasks (including production of documents) in a timely and high-quality fashion for the processing or supervision of projects.
Actively keep abreast of regional and industry developments and incorporates trends into the processing or supervision of projects.
Selection Criteria
Master’s degree and minimum 4-6 years of relevant experience in the financial sector, preferably in an investment-related function, audit, corporate banking, and/or the private equity industry.
Good understanding of financial and operational characteristics of financial institutions.
Clear experience and expertise in identifying, evaluating, structuring and negotiating debt and equity transactions; experience in portfolio management.
Sound business judgment and strong problem-solving/negotiation skills, as well as the ability to work effectively on simultaneous projects under time pressure.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
A keen interest in development finance and working in a multicultural environment.
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by visiting the World Bank Group application page on their career portal: Apply here. Ensure you complete the application process through the worldbankgroup.csod.com platform as directed.
