SUNFUNDER

FRANCOPHONE INVESTMENT ANALYST 

Position: Full-time

Location:

Flexible but within GMT- East Africa time zone

Responsibilities:

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You will work as a deal team with an Investment Officer to conduct in-depth due diligence, create, review and analyze financial models (in some cases from scratch), prepare investment memos, present the investment case and respond to questions from the Risk Team and the Credit Committee. You will also support the ongoing monitoring of the portfolio.
 

We expect the person in this role to quickly grow into a Senior Investment Analyst that will actively engage in the training and development of other Investment Analysts.

What this entails:

• Support the investment team in analyzing and executing debt investments for solar energy companies and projects globally. While the majority of our portfolio is in Sub-Saharan Africa, we are also active in  the Middle East and Southeast Asia. 

• Support includes, but is not limited to:

  • Supporting  the identification and screening of investment opportunities;

  • Ensuring all required information has been collected, validated and analyzed throughout the due diligence process; 

  • Making company/project presentations and memoranda;

  • Supporting internal credit and compliance processes;

  • Preparing financial models;

  • Preparing internal credit papers;

  • Supporting on deal execution, structuring, negotiation and legal documentation;

  • Supporting post-deal approval to ensure successful drawdown through security perfection and adherence to conditions precedent and conditions subsequent; and

  • Working closely with the  Risk Team to monitor our portfolio.

• Internally, you will work directly with an Investment Officer for the entire due diligence/credit approval process and with our Legal Counsel during the documentation process. You will also work with our Risk Team to ensure the deal is well structured and meets the standards required by our Credit Committee.  You will report to our Head of Investments.

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For more details please see the full job description here
 

To Apply:

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Please send a brief cover letter and a 1-page CV in English to jobs@sunfunder.com, “Francophone Investment Analyst” in the subject line.  Your cover letter should not summarise your CV, but rather specify why you believe you would be a good fit for the SunFunder team.

Application deadline:  15 November 2020.  Target start date: 1 March 2021. 

INVESTMENT ANALYST

Position: Full-time

Location:

Nairobi

Responsibilities:

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You will work as a deal team with an Investment Officer to conduct in-depth due diligence, create, review and analyze financial models (in some cases from scratch), prepare investment memos, present the investment case and respond to questions from the Risk Team and the Credit Committee. You will also support the ongoing monitoring of our portfolio.

What this entails:

• Support the investment team in analyzing and executing debt investments for solar energy companies and projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Support includes, but is not limited to:

  • Supporting  the identification and screening of investment opportunities across Sub-Saharan Africa;

  • Ensuring all required information has been collected, validated and analyzed throughout the due diligence process; 

  • Making company/project presentations and memoranda;

  • Supporting internal credit and compliance processes;

  • Preparing financial models;

  • Preparing internal credit papers;

  • Supporting deal execution, structuring, negotiation and legal documentation;

  • Supporting post deal approval to ensure successful drawdown through security perfection and adherence to conditions precedent and conditions subsequent; and

  • Working closely with the Risk Team to monitor our portfolio.

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For more details please see the full job description here
 

To Apply:
 

Please send a brief cover letter and a 1-page CV to jobs@sunfunder.com, “Investment Analyst” in the subject line. Your cover letter should not summarise your CV, but rather specify why you believe you would be a good fit for the SunFunder team.

Application deadline:  15 November 2020.  Target start date: 1 March 2021.