Asset & Resource Management Company (ARM) Limited was established in 1994, and has evolved into a leading asset management firm in Nigeria with a focus on asset management across a broad asset class.
At ARM, our people are our main asset, and the quality of advice and solutions that they provide is the underlying reason that we are able to build and sustain lasting relationships. The quality and breadth of our client base speaks to the quality of our people.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Investment Officer - Agriculture Fund
Location: Nigeria
Job Description
- The Funds objective is to establish large-scale mechanized commercial agribusinesses in irrigable areas suited to staple crop farming, agro-processing and agro-allied businesses.
- Structured as an open-ended Fund, the Fund will actively seek new wealth creation opportunities across diverse agricultural value chains through collaboration with local and international partners.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Apply financial guidelines to considered and actual investments, and provide recommendations on viability, compliance, improvement and monitoring systems
- Gather, verify and analyze information about potential or current investments. Actively seek, solicit, and market to generate projects for investment
- Conduct due diligence of projects as appropriate at each stage of pipeline
- Provide business advisory support
- Make decisions based on due diligence or monitoring, with regard to whether and how to proceed with investment
- Work on negotiation, structuring and legal documentation of investments
- Maintain relationships and monitor activities of approved investments
- Establish key operational indicators for each project
- Review operational, management and financial, reports and plans on a regular basis
- Prepare Investment Proposals for presentation to and consideration by Investment Committee
- Submit additional reports on operations as requested by Board or Investment Committee
- Maintain relationships with partners, government, business and investors, to identify and evaluate potential projects, monitor and provide business assistance to active investments
- Build resource network of real estate, business and investment professionals
- Originate and source business for the unit- mainlany advisory mandates and fund and RE proprietary investment.
Daily Activities/ Tasks
- Sourcing potential investments.
- Supervising Mandates.
- Managing relationships on projects directly under supervision in terms of portfolio execution.
- Monitoring operational and financial performance of proposed projects.
- Working with project principals on negotiation, structuring and legal documentation of investments.
- Monitoring investments in portfolios and making supported recommendations to management regarding the sale of holdings, valuations and exits and upon management approval, execute the recommendations.
Performing investor relations duties as follows:
- Ensuring proper liaison between the department and its clients and managing communication between the department and its clients to ensure that critical information and client reports are prepared on a timely basis and are circulated to the appropriate persons.
- Work on negotiation, structuring and legal documentation of investments
- Conduct due diligence of projects as appropriate at each stage of pipeline
- Create / review financial models to guide in the investment decision making process
- Provide business advisory support
- Maintain relationships and monitor activities of approved investments
- Prepare Investment Proposals for presentation to and consideration by Investment Committee
- Submit additional reports on operations as requested by Board or Investment Committee.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Good knowledge of the local and global financial service industry dynamics including regulations, legislations and operating environment
- Familiarity with capital budgeting and investment analysis process
- Understanding the various financial instruments
- Good understanding of accounting, finance, budgeting and cost control procedures
- Understanding of alternative methods of transaction structuring
- Good understanding of issues relating to fund raising (origination, distribution and risk sharing)
- Good report and letter writing skills, communication skills, supervisory skills
- Understanding the key risks in project financing structures
- Understanding of the different sources and levels of funding available for project finance purposes
- Advanced understanding of the private equity market
- Ability to present own and others' ideas in a away that addresses specific client situations
- Ability to work closely with other colleagues in cross-selling of all business products and services
- Understand the features of investment options such as hedge funds, derivatives & asset-backed instruments
- In-depth understanding of financial statements, notably ratio analysis, income taxes, pension and employee benefits, financial liabilities, leases and off balance sheet debt, derivatives and hedging.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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