Senior Associate, Investor Relations (Operator Finance) at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Associate, Investor Relations (Operator Finance)

Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• This is not a maintenance role. The Senior Associate, Investor Relations (Operator Finance) will take full ownership of the operator financing cycle — from structuring and deploying credit to smallholder operators, to reporting on portfolio performance, to managing the relationships with the investors who fund it all.

In 18 Months, You Will Have:

• Built a clean, investor-ready view of the full operator financing portfolio — with clear metrics on deployment, repayment performance, and risk.
• Supported the closing of major financing facilities that directly fund hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmer loans.
• Established a reliable investor reporting cadence that gives our partners confidence in our data and in us.

What You Will Own

• Own the end-to-end operator financing cycle — from credit structuring and loan disbursement to collections tracking, repayment analysis, and financial reporting on portfolio health.
• Prepare and maintain fiscal records, investment schedules, consolidated forecasts, and long-range financial plans with accuracy and discipline.
• Support active fundraising efforts: build and maintain data rooms, respond to due diligence requests, and prepare investor-facing financial models and decks.

Requirements
Who We're Looking For:

• You are a finance professional who has spent 7–10 years close to the intersection of credit, capital, and relationships. You understand the Nigerian banking landscape deeply — how DFIs think, how SME financing works, and what it takes to build the trust of institutional investors.
• You do not want to manage someone else’s spreadsheet. You want to own the full picture — and you want the work to mean something. You are energised by complexity, not paralysed by it. You can translate a messy portfolio into a clean investor narrative. You know when to escalate and when to solve.
• Critically, you are someone who thinks about the people who come after you. You build systems, document your work, and mentor others — not because you are asked to, but because you understand that a function that depends on one person is a fragile function.

The Right Mindset:

• Care about what the numbers mean in the real world: a 2% repayment shortfall is not just a data point, it is a farmer’s household.
• Take ownership without being asked — and raise issues without being told.
• Want to build something they are proud of, not just execute what they are handed.
• Thrive in ambiguity and build structure where none exists — rather than waiting for a perfect brief.​

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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