Associate Deal Origination & Investment Officer at KNN Corporate Services Limited

KNN Corporate Services Limited is a dynamic group of professionals with more than three decades of combined experience in supporting businesses, providing corporate governance, HR consulting and company secretarial services. We are young, energetic, and highly proficient in our various fields, and also enjoy serving you our client.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Deal Origination & Investment Officer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• To ensure proper screening of investment applications and that structured finance proposals are in strict compliance with the company’s “Viability Model” as well as Investment Strategy and Policy Framework.
• The primary responsibility is to prepare projects for lending decisions to enable acceptance into the project preparation pipeline
• Providing end-to-end support to the Head of Deals on deals origination on the origination, development, due diligence, approval and implementation process
• Developing marketing materials / pitch packs and PowerPoint presentations, review and update of market commentaries, Confidential Information Memorandum, written analyses, research, financial statement analysis.

Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics or a related field
• CFA or ACCA
• Master’s Degree in Finance or MBA, will be preferred
• At least 4 years’ post-graduate finance / banking / credit experience, largely gained within a Leveraged Finance context or professional services environment.

Skills and Competencies:

• Good working knowledge of the syndicated loan and project finance markets and the corresponding products
• Ability to influence and persuade people
• Ability to understand and interpret economic and sectoral development plans and to identify and select a project preparation pipeline of bankable projects
• Strong attention to details
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Robust ability to identify issues and present creative and practical solutions;
• Judgement and decision making
• Ability to comprehensively analyze financial statements;
• Ability to think out of the box and generate creative solution
• Ability to develop financial model and conduct reviews and analysis;
• Superior level of resourcefulness and ability to work with considerable autonomy
• Credit risk analysis and risk structuring skills
• Capacity and willingness to work under pressure
• Industry/market and product knowledge
• Demonstrates accountability and ownership of own duties
• Demonstrable track record of originating, preparing of project financing transactions;
• Aspires to excellence through quality and timely delivery of outputs
• Must be knowledgeable with the financing of infrastructure projects;
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptation to different situations to get the job done.

Application Closing Date
3rd November, 2022.