Associate Investment Officer - New Delhi, India - World Bank Group

World Bank Group

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New Delhi, India

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Job #:

- req25278
Organization:

IFC
Sector:
Investment
Grade:
GF
Term Duration:
3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment
Location:
New Delhi,India
Required Language(s):
English
Preferred Language(s):
Hindi
Closing Date:
12/21/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description

The Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services (MAS) Industry Group plays an important 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 upto 90% of employment activity, particularly in the poorest countries.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Analyze operational and financial performance as well as credit and integrity risks of potential clients and projects. Present recommendations to the business development team on whether to pursue a straightforward deal and alternatives for structuring it.
Collaborate in developing client strategies and engagement plans and pitchbooks for various sectors and countries, including IDA and FCS countries, and conduct sector analysis to be used as input to sector strategies.
Collect financial and operational information from clients, research pricing information, research policies, and procedures.
Build complex financial models, perform due diligence and financial analysis, and/or provide quality control over financial analysis and projections developed by an analyst to evaluate benefits and risks of straightforward transactions.
Ensure adequate and systematic capture of project, sector, and country benchmarking information to capture lessons learned and support decision making in future transactions.
Draft memos and concept notes for business. Independently handle waivers, amendments, and ESAM for straightforward portfolio projects (in coordination with relevant departments) under the general supervision of senior investment officer.
Engage with midlevel clients of straightforward projects to understand their business directions and challenges that may lead to new opportunities, and support design of client engagement plans, as applicable.
Establish and maintain relationships with midlevel clients and other stakeholders (government, development partners, WBG) to explore straightforward business opportunities.
Monitor macroeconomic indicators of sector and country market conditions as well as social and political information that are relevant to assigned portfolio.
Perform credit and risk assessments, financial projections, covenant compliance reviews (debt), and monitor changes to risk flags for determining performance assigned to a portfolio, with limited supervision.
Prepare investment committee or advisory committee materials for straightforward transactions, ensuring adequate applicability of IFC's policies and procedures.
Coordinate with internal stakeholders (legal, ES&G, economists, and sector specialists) to identify ways to strengthen development impact and financial sustainability of projects.
Prepare quarterly portfolio reports that include analysis of trends over time, key issues, and areas of potential concern.
Prepare brief documents summarizing postmortem insights from portfolio reviews and reporting to identify improvement opportunities and best practices.
Responsible for doing rating reviews of loan loss reserve on a quarterly basis for the overall assigned portfolio. Run models for equity valuations to determine the need to modify exit strategy.

Selection Criteria

A master's degree or an equivalent qualification with at least 48 years of relevant experience is a must. CA/CFA will be regarded as equivalent.
Capacity to identify barriers for market creation opportunities in a targeted country by tapping into relevant internal expertise and synthesizing information on local regulatory and economic contexts, industry and sector structure and landscape, and constraints clients are facing to grow their business.
Demonstrates active listening skills by paying full attention and asking questions to clarify client and stakeholder needs and gather required information.
Ability to interact effectively with clients and stakeholders by acting professionally, responding to their requests and inquiries, delivering what is promised, and meeting deadlines.
Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills to effectively influence the perception and support of clients/stakeholders.
Ability to draft documents and reports that are concise, wellorganized, and

appropriately focused on most critical points that are relevant to the target audience.