Job Location : Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline : May 11, 2025Quick Recommended Links
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Undertake business development and position NEF as the preferred lender for BBBEE transactions focusing on WEF, Youth, People with Disabilities, and 3rd Party transactions
- Initiate and develop new business strategies and opportunities
- Maximise 3rd party funds committed for investment implementation
- Responsible for ensuring proposals are timeously declined or if commercially viable, are processed quickly and effectively; to ensure fast turnaround times
- Proactively identify investment partners and opportunities
- Create a pipeline of development impact projects
- Appraise new investments and support the Team
- Manage the due diligence process and monitors related documents according to the required standards.
- Ensure that the department meets the quarterly and annual targets on approvals, commitments and disbursements as per the approved targets
- Implement investment strategy and philosophy
- Lead and manage the whole investment process
- Assist the team in performing detailed analysis of investment opportunities, including commercial analysis, financial modelling and risk and pricing and NEF mandate
- Deal screening
- Preliminary appraisal of deal
- Deal structuring, pricing and negotiation of term sheet
- Conduct Due diligence
- Industry and sectoral research analysis
- Motivation of investment thesis
- Facilitation of contracting
- Oversee disbursements to approved projects as well as monitor a projects progress post investment
- Ensure deal closure by taking responsibility for optimal financial, institutional and legal structuring
- Provide innovative and flexible financial structures for complex transactions
- Ensure that all disbursement files are reviewed for completeness before release to Fund Manager
- Identify opportunities to initiate viable projects, project origination through the facilitation of project preparation, and business plans with the intention of providing funding
- Development, training and mentoring of the team
- Review Investment reports and make sure they are of good quality prior to submission
- Prepare Investment Committee (FMIC, FMTPFC, EXCO IC, Board IC and Board of Trustees) papers on investment opportunities for consideration
- Present investment proposals that fit with NEFs investment strategy to EXCO, IC and NEF Board of Trustees
- Periodically visits key stakeholders and maintain communication with clients in order to keep good client relations
- Facilitates proper project documents submission for the purpose of governance with regards to the project progress appraisal process.
- Participate in Steering Committees and Boards of the various projects/businesses
- Manages the implementation of investments process for maximum return on investment
- Monitors the disbursement in accordance with the NEF processes
- Manage relationships with the relevant project stakeholders, partners, and lead promoters, in accordance with the projects objectives
Qualification Requirements
- B. Com Hons Degree with specialization in Accounting and/or Business Finance
- CA (SA) or MBA an advantage
- Minimum of eight years experience in deal making environment
- Minimum of three years people management experience
- Due Diligence analysis and exposure
- Financial Modelling tools
- Project Management
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