Senior Investment Officer - Financial Institutions (Africa)

at  FMO

OUR OFFER

• Gross yearly salary of between EUR 100K – 125K (including holiday allowance and 13th month), depending on seniority, years of experience and background.
• Premium free pension.
• 31 holidays.
• Working remotely abroad for max 60 days in a rolling period of 12 months.
• Hybrid way of working (50/50). For more information, please visit our website Secondary Benefits – FMO.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Excellent English communication both written and spoken.
• Multilingual - French language, both written and spoken is a requirement.
• Excellent and proven relationship management skills.
• Ability to source new business (also in new countries), to build a trustworthy relationship with clients and stakeholders to persuade and influence at transaction level and beyond.
• Ability to analyse financial and economic data, markets and how this drives the credit quality of the client.
• Structuring of the investment such that it serves the needs of the client and protects the position of FMO.
• Can effectively strike the balance between commercial goals and upholding FMO’s development mandate, 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.
• Coaching skills to train more junior staff.
• Displays strong risk awareness, while thinking creatively with an entrepreneurial focus.
• Displays a commercial drive and strong business sense and is service/ client oriented.

YOUR ROLE

The Financial Institutions Department is looking for a Senior Investment Officer. In this role your activities will be will be focused across the geographies in Africa, yet with a focus on East Africa and French speaking countries. You will report to the Manager for Financial Institutions Africa and be part of this team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business development: Contributes to overall origination activities, if applicable in new countries, drafts key account plans and/or country strategies. Creates innovative business opportunities.
• Portfolio management: Has overall responsibility for quality and timelines of all internal documents (e.g. reviews, change and waiver requests, disbursements, and FRC memos).
• Strong relationships management: build strong relationship with 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.
• Team collaboration: Active participation in defining the Financial Institutions Arica strategy/business plan together with the manager and colleagues, structures transactions in collaboration with environmental and other specialists and teams like syndications, Know Your Customer, guarantee and state fund managers to offer the best solution to the client.
• Coaches Investment Officers, Associates and Portfolio Analysts as needed.
• Explicitly shares industry, regional and client insights.
• Takes the lead in negotiation/contracting process of debt transactions in collaboration with the legal team.