Associate Deal Origination & Investment Officer at KNN Corporate Services Limited

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.