Do you have at least 8 years of work-experience in corporate banking or development finance? Do you enjoy originating, structuring and negotiating high impact agribusiness transactions in Africa regions? Then this role is for you. Kindly click the apply button to join our team in impact investing.
- Educational level: Master degree (WO)
- Deadline: March 12, 2023
Your role
The Agribusiness, Food & Water department (AFW) is looking for an Investment Officer in the Africa team. This team focuses on origination, execution and management of debt investments in the agribusiness sector in Africa. AFW works with companies along the value chain including primary producers, processors, traders and logistical services providers. The main objective is to invest in private sector companies in the agribusiness value chain to produce and distribute food, work with (smallholder) suppliers and stimulate environmentally friendly technologies and practices. The Africa team has IO’s located in Nairobi, Johannesburg and Den Haag (Head Office). This vacancy is for the Den Haag Head Office.
Your role
Responsibilities:
- Execution of debt investments that fit in the AFW strategy: contributes to business development/origination activities, drafts key account plans and/or country strategies. Structures and executes transactions, in collaboration with Environmental Specialists and other specialists as needed, under the direction of the Manager or Senior Investment Officer.
- Portfolio Management (Reviews): has overall responsibility for quality and timelines of all internal documents related to the designated portfolio (e.g., reviews, change and waiver requests, disbursements, and Country memos).
- Builds strong relationships with AFW clients and prospects by understanding their business, the market and environment they operate in and the risks and challenges they face through regular visits and/or calls.
- Takes the lead, or participates with (S)IO, in negotiation/contracting process of debt investments together with the legal team.
- Coaches Associates and Portfolio Analysts as required. Provides context on work delegated to/performed by Portfolio Analysts. Ensures clarity on role/task division. Provides input and feedback to Associates and Portfolio Analysts on credit reviews, change requests, disbursement memos and on their part of the investment proposals (CIP/FP)
- Provides input to the team business plan. Participates in organisation-wide projects.
Your team
The food & agricultural sector is one of the 3 focus sectors in FMO because it has such a substantial impact in the countries where we are active. We invest in private sector companies to stimulate a more sustainable food system that reduces hunger (SDG2 – zero hunger), that increases development of rural areas in particular (smallholder) suppliers (SDG10 – reduce inequalities) and stimulates environmentally friendly technologies and practices (SDG13 – climate action.
Your background
- Master’s degree – preferably finance, (agri)-economics, business administration or engineering.
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience in corporate finance/banking.
- International work experience is a preference
- Familiarity with debt financing in emerging markets, preferably in the food & agribusiness sector.
Skills
- Ability to analyse i.a. financial and economic data, markets and structure the appropriate investment in a financial projections model
- Can effectively strike the balance between commercial goals and upholding E&S/human rights standards
- Leads by example, displaying strong team skills, contributing to team success and to a constructive, positive, and collaborative work environment.
- Displays strong risk awareness, while thinking creatively with an entrepreneurial focus.
- Displays a commercial drive and strong business sense and is service/client-oriented
Competences
- Flexible, pragmatic, solution-oriented and has a “can-do” mentality
- Strong presentation and negotiating skills
- Team player
- Takes initiatives
- Good networking skills
- Analytical
- You live FMO’s core values: diversity, quality, integrity and making the difference
- Excellent English communication skills both written and verbal
Please note, if we make you an offer to join FMO, you will need to work through the screening process with our screening partner. The process is designed to check your integrity and reliability.
Interested?
For further information, please contact Mayowa Akinsanya, e-mail m.akinsanya@fmo.nl.
FMO – mission and values
We hire candidates with a passion for our mission; to empower entrepreneurs to build a better world. The values we live by are: Making the Difference, Diversity, Quality, and Integrity.
Diversity is one of our values. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability and pregnancy.
At FMO we also value knowledge exchange and collaboration. We seek to hire people who will contribute to and use FMO’s knowledge by using and sharing good practices, lessons learned and experiences and who will encourage others to do the same.
