Botswana Development Corporation is looking for dynamic, zealous, and qualified individuals to submit application for the following positions.
INVESTMENT OFFICER
Reporting to the Senior Investment Officer, your role will be to assist in business development and to initiate deal structuring, execution, and portfolio management processes in accordance with the approved investment strategies, policies and procedures.
- Responsibilities will incorporate providing pertinent information required for the development and implementation of BDC’s investment and divestment strategy, enterprise and sector development strategy and the department’s business development plans.
- You will also perform deal structuring and execution processes for assigned deals and draft documents for the review and inputs of Senior Investment Officers or Investment Principals in all stages of the deal originationprocess.
- You will also be responsible for actively monitoring the assignedportfolioofcompaniesinaccordancewithset metrics, as well as update monitoring parameters and
Qualifications
- The candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Commerce, or related discipline from a reputable institution, and discipline from a reputable institution, and /or a professional finance or accounting qualification from a recognised institution as well as membershipandingoodstandingwithe.g.CFA,ACCA orCIMA
- You should have a minimum of three (3) years analyst experience in financial services/ investment environment with a focus on accounting, corporate finance advisory, Investment banking, financial audit, lending and investment transaction experience.
Themainpurposeoftheroleistoprovidesupportservices to senior investment staff members in the execution of investment transaction processes including but not limited to assisting clients and responding to prospective client inquiries and queries, deal pipeline management, research and preparing departmental reports in addition to other supportservicesthatmayberequiredinthedepartment. Youwillproviderequiredinformationtosupportthe
strategy, planning, budgeting, policy, and process development and participate in the identification of investment opportunities and prospective investment opportunities locally, regionally, and internationally as well asrespondtoclientqueriesandenquiresrelatingtoBDC investment products and services.
- Youwillcollateallrequiredinformationforinvestment applicationscreening,evaluationandduediligenceand assist the structuring and execution unit with due diligence, financial analysis, and modelling, drafting of investmentpapers,co-ordinationofinternalapproval processes and finalisation of legal documentation in transactionprocesses.
- Youwillassistinportfoliomonitoringactivitiesincluding preparation of reports and presentations, client visits and recommendations for improvement of investment
- Additionally, you will conduct basic due diligence on companies and industries by researching, reading financial statements and monitoring news using specialist media sources and assess sector implications or impact on portfolio of companies and market data and collating information for senior investment staff.
- Youwillalsoproviderequiredadministrativesupportto theinvestmentteamincludingsettingupofmeetings withclients,draftingmeetingagendas,draftingminutes ofmeetings,preparingreports,collatinginformation, filing of documents and obtaining of signatures/signoffsetc.
- Additionally,youwillassistinthemanagementofclose working relationships with clients through regular business calls and client visits in alignment with the client engagement strategy of BDC.
Qualifications
- The candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Commerce, or related fields from a recognised
- AMastersinrelatedfieldsoraprofessionalqualification (e.g., CFA, ACCA, CIMA) from a recognised institution would be an added advantage.
- Youwillalsohaveinternshipexperiencepreferablyina financial role such as audit, finance, investment/credit
- YouneedtobefamiliarwithMSWord,ExcelandPower Point and familiarity with appropriate electronic data sources (e.g. Bloomberg etc.) will be an added
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