Senior Associate at Open Capital Advisors

Open Capital Advisors is a management consulting and financial advisory firm that drives growth, enables investment, and builds markets across Africa. We help high-impact businesses achieve scale, support investors to deploy capital, and enable the public sector to drive market-based solutions. Since we founded Open Capital in 2010, we have completed more than 700 engagements across 23 countries in Africa. Open Capital is a diverse, global team of 150 focused on advancing African economies and solving some of its most pressing challenges. We are advisors to the most innovative businesses, investors, and donors to scale businesses, structure and invest capital, and enable market-based solutions.

We ae recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Associate

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: Management Consulting

The Role

• You will work on multiple client engagements across a range of industries, with a focus on developing growth strategies, supporting financial transactions, advising on market innovation and thought leadership, and more.
• You will work closely with teams of Project Leaders and Analysts and engage directly with clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Work alongside our world-class team to help clients solve difficult and important challenges to their growth and to impact across African markets and economies;
• Support to design growth strategies and/or new financial products, structure transactions, enable investment readiness for innovative companies, and more;
• Create financial models, conduct market research and analysis, strategic planning and supporting client presentations and communication;
• Develop highly-impactful written, visual and quantitative deliverables (in Word, PPT and Excel) with increasingly autonomy and ownership.

Who you are
You want to make a difference in your work and share our optimism for what we can achieve!
You have:

• 4-5+ of years of proven working experience in management consulting, investment banking, investing, or a high-growth business with significant responsibility for client projects deliverables and client service;
• Strong communication skills and excellent analytical abilities, ability to distil information quickly and structure solutions to problems;
• Ability to effectively work with clients at all levels and backgrounds;
• Bachelor's Degree from a recognized institution. MBA or advanced degree is an added advantage but not required;
• Professional fluency in English. Applicants interested in Abidjan & Dakar locations should be fluent in both French and English.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.