Overview
The Investment Officer will identify innovative investment opportunities, foster strategic partnerships, and deliver advisory solutions to advance sustainable growth and economic resilience in emerging markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and convene suitable teams/functions across the WBG to implement high-quality Upstream initiatives and interventions.
- Selectively Lead execution of new transactions, and in portfolio restructurings, rescheduling, capital increases, equity sales, etc.
- Analyze client, sector, and market data to design potential solutions to create and unlock markets or improve sector and firm performance and develop a pipeline of bankable projects.
- Design analytical approaches to generate and test new ideas for market or project opportunity creation and feasibility, as well as new products and platform approaches.
- Develop feasibility studies and implementation plans for Upstream projects that lead to IFC investments.
- Manage project budget preparation, approval processes, and financial management.
- Determine scope of work and budgets for external consultants.
- Generate ideas about new investment opportunities, new products, and platform businesses by leveraging sector-specific data analysis, stress-testing various operating models, having dialogues with stakeholders, and sharing information across the WBG.
- Help prioritize Upstream programs and ensure identified early-stage project development engagement activities are properly staffed.
- Oversee engagements to identify client needs as the basis for developing a proposal or client recommendations and preparing necessary project documents for moderately complex projects.
Required Experience
- At least 8 years of relevant experience.
- Relevant experience could include a proven track record in areas of sourcing, structuring and closing investments and/or supervising loan and equity exposures including working on restructurings, modifications and negotiated exits.
- Proven financial modelling ability.
- A good knowledge of IFC Investment processes and a track record of commitment will be considered a plus.
- Good understanding of MAS sectors, industry drivers, latest trends and changes, and standard market transaction arrangements; especially in MCA.
- Capacity to understand, enable, and participate in market creation opportunities for multiple countries by demonstrating long-term perspective, open-mindedness, persistence, innovation, and ability to leverage all available tools (including de-risking tools); good understanding of the roles and value-add of IFC and WBG in new markets.
- Ability to build long-term engagement with clients and credibility by demonstrating knowledge of their business, sector, and culture and maintaining an ongoing dialogue on their business needs, operations, and strategies as well as opportunities for strategically aligned business deals.
- Ability to interact effectively with working-level WBG staff and participate in collaborative interventions and projects that enable private sector investment by exercising sensitivity to differences in corporate cultures, priorities, and operating practices and requirements.
- Ability to participate and constructively contribute in meetings with mid-level government officials on constraints to private sector investment in their countries.
- Ability to participate in meetings with senior management and contribute market knowledge and ideas.
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of and ability to apply project management and M&E concepts, including theory of change.
- Understanding of IFC and WBG products and instruments and where there are opportunities for cross-organizational collaboration.
- In-depth understanding of IFC ES&G standards to ensure they are met in project proposals and implementation.
- Understand the implications of different policy and regulatory frameworks governing thematic areas.
Qualifications
- MBA, Master's degree in a related field.
- Related fields of education include business, finance, or economics or an area of expertise specific to a sector, subject matter, or industry specialty.
