Senior Investment Associate

Job purpose:

To execute complex transactions and manage a sub-team responsible for deal sourcing, structuring, and implementation, ensuring that performance targets are achieved. Additionally, to provide guidance, support, and supervision to sub-team members, particularly in the execution of complex transactions.

Outputs

Business Development / Transaction Origination

• Pro-actively develop business development strategies and pursue new business development through excellent understanding of market and stakeholder networks
• Identifies lucrative market opportunities through an excellent understanding and interpretation of sector analyses, including market structure, supply and demand aspects, competitor environment, and gap analysis and taking actions accordingly
• Actively participate in formulating, developing and implementing the business development strategy to generate new investment opportunities in the South African BEE financing market
• Engage in the activities and efforts required for the implementation of the business development plan
• Conduct business development in response to new markets, products and clients
• Develop strategic relationships with financial institutions, corporate finance advisors, other intermediaries and BEE groups
• Participate and represent the THE COMPANY at investment conferences and roundtable discussions
• Engage in activities that ensure the investment initiatives are in support of broader South African economic development strategies and/or government BEE strategies

Transaction Execution

• Act independently in all spheres of project management, expert in deal structuring and negotiations. Acknowledged as a very experienced deal maker/ transactor both within and outside of the THE COMPANY
• Mobilize, coordinate and guide internal and external resources to appraise transactions/project/applications
• Manage and influence internal decision making and transaction processes to obtain investment approval
• Utilize expert knowledge (of BEE market, financial market, macro-economic environment sector) as to support, lead tea in identifying and suggesting/recommending appropriate mitigation measures on key risk issues
• Conduct comprehensive due diligence investigations on approved transactions by providing input on scoping and partaking in due diligence exercises with minimal support
• Recommend, develop, negotiate innovative/optimum/appropriate finance and legal structures for each investment deal ensuring long term sustainability/viability of the project to the bethe companyit of the client and THE COMPANY
• Provide advice, guidance to legal department on the commercial terms in the preparation
  
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