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.