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  • Posted: Oct 30, 2017
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Lateral Capital is a mission-driven venture fund investing in and advising early-stage opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa ("SSA”). We invest in technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points in key verticals like financial services, energy, education and healthcare. As investors and entrepreneurs ourselves we build on our...
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    Principal

    Key Responsibilities
    The Principal will play a key role in building Lateral in West Africa, including:

    • Overseeing the full investment process (including preliminary analysis, due-diligence, financial modelling, structuring and negotiation of transactions as well as ongoing operations and portfolio management). This will require interfacing with counterparties such as co-investors, financial institutions, multilateral banks, legal counsel and external advisors.
    • Stay abreast of key sector and market trends; conduct quantitative and qualitative research for investment team.
    • Actively manage portfolio companies and support founders in key areas from finance, HR to strategy and governance.
    • Implement monitoring & evaluation systems to track qualitative and quantitative indicators for portfolio companies.

    Qualifications

    • Required: Extensive work experience in a role, managing and operating investments in early-stage and/or growth ventures.
    • Required: Operating experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
    • Required: Understanding of building an early-stage company.
    • Required: Excellent written communication skills
    • Required: Diverse background, grounded in integrity, curiosity, hustle and doing the right thing, a drive for excellence, and lateral thinking.
    • Required: Excellent quantitative and qualitative skills, ability to apply analytical rigor to complex and uncertain situations.
    • Preferred: Experience with a management role in startup.
    • Preferred: Experience in project management working with multilateral organizations or international corporations.
    • Preferred: Experience as a private investor and/or entrepreneur.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Lateral Capital on www.linkedin.com to apply

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