Senior Associate, Funding at Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)

Job Reference: FU5325

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end execution of complex fundraising transactions, ensuring seamless delivery from initiation to closure.
• Drive the RFP processes for selecting top-tier MLAs and bookrunners, ensuring best-in-class execution standards.
• Develop and execute robust strategies to forecast and bridge cash flow gaps, ensuring seamless capital availability for strategic investments.
• Collaborate with the ALM desk to craft cutting-edge balance sheet strategies, leveraging market trends to optimize AFC’s income and risk profile.
• Manage AFC’s Eurobond issuance process and explore innovative funding solutions.
• Spearhead the negotiation and management of loan and bond documentation, ensuring AFC’s interests are safeguarded at every stage.
• Oversee comprehensive KYC and compliance checks on funding institutions, maintaining the highest standards of integrity and risk management.
• Collaborate with the Financial Control and Risk Management teams to monitor capital adequacy trends and address potential breaches proactively.
• Ensure all payments to lenders are made on time to avoid defaults.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory while oral and written fluency in other international languages will be an added advantage.

Education

• A strong first degree in any discipline
• Possession of MBA or a master’s degree in a finance-related discipline, or final level attainment in, a relevant professional certification (CFA, ACA, FRM, ACI, etc.) is an added advantage.

Experience

• 8 - 10 years’ work experience in an international financial institution or within the corporate treasury of a multinational business, multicultural and diverse working environment
• Willingness to travel “out-of-station” with minimal prior notice