Overview
Evaluate and execute commercially oriented direct equity investment opportunities that contribute to ADB's development goals for the private sector and its overall goal of reducing poverty.
Key Responsibilities
- Help identify investment opportunities including conducting market research.
- Analyze potential investment opportunities by evaluating track record, strategy, value addition, and management team of companies.
- Develop financial valuation models and sensitivity analyses.
- Participate in due diligence missions and provide technical support.
- Engage with the Office of Risk Management and the Safeguards Specialists.
- Oversee the documentation and maintenance of comprehensive files.
- Prepare annual monitoring reports.
- Conduct analysis of portfolio company financial data, problems and remedial actions, and perform a valuation analysis.
- Inform relevant staff of warning signals or potential problems in the portfolio company.
- Design and help coordinate appropriate remedial action.
- Participate in missions for due diligence related to the monitoring of the portfolio company.
- Ensure adherence by portfolio companies to their obligations for submission to ADB of periodic reports.
- Communicate with clients in case of covenant breaches or unexpected developments.
- Work with clients to design remedial measures and implement them.
- Monitor the development effectiveness parameters and environmental and social management system (ESMS) compliance.
- Maintain the database of legal and other documents on the portfolio companies.
- Maintain a project related database, tracking portfolio size, composition, and other characteristics.
- Maintain a database of transaction covenants and other transaction related deadlines and milestones.
- Oversee junior staff for their correct application.
- Perform desk reviews, collect data, assess financial and developmental performance of projects.
- Conduct interviews and participate in missions to evaluate projects for extended annual review reports (XARR).
- Prepare XARRs independently or jointly with other PSOD staff.
- Perform other tasks as assigned and reflected in the incumbent's workplan.
Required Experience
- At least 8 years of relevant experience, preferably in corporate finance, and with at least 4 years of supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of multilateral finance institutions' standard operational processes and procedures.
- Proven ability to undertake research and analysis on difficult but well-defined tasks, collect and organize required data, apply appropriate computer skills in organizing and analyzing the data; and prepare notes, papers and sections of reports.
- Experienced in building financial models for valuations and financial returns analysis.
- Good analytical thinking with the ability to comprehend causal links, make pros and cons analysis, and analyze factors to reach a decision.
- Ability to guide junior members of the team to facilitate work planning, delivery and quality review.
- Ability to work with teams as a constructive team member.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance and/or Accounting, preferably with Master's degree or equivalent.
