Senior Investment Officer - Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services
New Delhi | Mumbai
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: New Delhi | Mumbai
- Grade: 8b7d5cee8ee2f82070003810fe0147999bf5103e
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Occupational Groups:
- Economics
- Banking and Finance
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Impact investing, Social venture capital
- Closing Date: Closed
IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet.
The Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services (MAS) Industry Group plays a key role in supporting IFC’s strategic priorities, covering investments in the global manufacturing and services, agribusiness, health, and education sectors. MAS’ sectors play a critical role in providing goods and services to consumers, addressing core needs, creating jobs, contributing to government revenues, and stimulating growth. In IFC’s client countries, these sectors can account for as much as 80% of overall economic activity and can account for up to 90% of employment activity, particularly in the poorest countries.
MAS is seeking an experienced Senior Investment Officer to be based in New Delhi or Mumbai to complement its team to cover Services for its South Asia operations. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Asia Pacific MAS team and will work closely with IFC offices in the region as well as global team to develop new business opportunities, execute transactions as well as manage portfolio investments.
The Senior Investment Officer will have 12-15 years of investment experience, preferably in managing clients in the Services sectors. Strong deal structuring, client negotiation and legal documentation coordination experience is required. Knowledge of specific business, social, environmental, and developmental issues related to these sectors is preferred. The candidate will play an active lead role in full life cycle of the project, from business development to exit.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Develop long-term relationships with key clients and other stakeholders (e.g., government officials, regulators) at senior levels to identify and act on opportunities for new and repeat business; and engage effectively with other syndicate lenders at senior levels.
• Lead formulation and coordinate implementation of a business development strategy for a small sector or country or substantively influence business development strategies for a more significant sector, product, or a region.
• Lead teams in structuring deals that strike a balance between clients’ expectations and protecting IFCs and other lenders’ rights.
• Collaborate with clients, including in FCS countries, to identify how IFC can add more value to their company and improve the quality of IFC’s investment.
• Supervise the gathering of lessons learned on important topics across the portfolio, connect trends from different areas of the portfolio, and make recommendations on how these could improve business development and transaction structuring.
• Gather market intelligence to stay informed of emerging trends in sector and country that could have broad impact on a country or subsector portfolio.
• Lead quarterly assessments of ratings, loan loss reserves, or valuations for country, region, or sector portfolio; and conduct quality control over work performed by analysts and more junior investment officers.
• Analyze strategically important portfolio trends to identify where they are most concentrated and the contributing factors. Take a leadership role in discussing findings and their implications at review meetings.
• Negotiate complex waivers, amendments, and rescheduling; and prepare official restructuring memos for approval.
• Perform complex, credit risk rating assessments, covenant compliance reviews, and development impact assessment.
• Oversee the portfolio management work of analysts and investment officers for assigned portfolio to identify gaps and create a macro view of the financial, compliance, and risk status of the portfolio, anticipating emerging risks.
• Develop assigned staff and members of the broader team through mentoring, coaching, and providing on-the-job learning opportunities.
This vacancy is now closed.