Deadline: 09 April, 2021
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking to fill the role of Chief Capital Markets Officer.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
Responsibilities
- Lead the preliminary evaluation of both lending and non-lending projects
- Lead the planning and execution of appraisal and fact-finding missions
- Lead the preparation of project appraisal reports for presentation to the department, the various review committees and finally to the board of directors
- Develop innovative and appropriate financial structures for complex transactions
- Ensure all conditions precedent have been fulfilled on a timely basis and all fees are billed and collected from clients
- Develop relationships within the bank and with other institutions involved in financial market development
- As the bank’s representative, participate in seminars, workshops and conferences dealing with financial markets issues
- Play an active role in coaching and mentoring more junior investment officers
- Coordinate closely with social environmental, and technical assistance colleagues in order to add value to the bank’s clients’ businesses, find pragmatic solutions to the specific sector challenges, and achieve sustainable development impact
- Assist in integrity due diligence for potential clients
- Maintain knowledge of African financial markets/transaction structuring and provide market intelligence
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, global and regional private businesses, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to further develop the sector and to develop specific investment opportunities
Requirements
- Master’s degree, minimum, in Business, International Development, Finance/Financial Economics, or a related discipline
- Seven years, minimum, of relevant postgraduate professional experience with strong knowledge of socio-economic development issues and policies of African countries
- Command of financial market instruments and structuring with experience in corporate finance, equity investment and housing finance projects
- Strong financial and credit skill
- Ability to engage in a broad range of financial issues
- Good knowledge of financial sector issues and demonstrated ability to engage in a broad range of development and policy issues
- Proven track record in capital market development, banking, housing finance, and promotion and experience in infrastructure and corporate finance using a range of bank products, such as loans, guarantee products and technical assistance, programmes at national and regional levels
- Demonstrated knowledge of the operational policies, procedures and practices of major bilateral and multilateral development agencies
- Excellent organisational, analytical and coordination skills
- Integrity, and ability to work under pressure and to deliver timely quality services
- Ability to work accurately, methodically and meet deadlines
- Ability to work independently or within a team
- Demonstrated mature sense of judgment
- Broad knowledge of project management tools and methodologies
- Demonstrated capacity in dealing with different types of client (private/public) and projects (financial market, infrastructure, and corporate finance)
- Ability to coordinate, participate in, and act as a catalyst for strategic cross-sector dialogues within networks, across the country, among bank colleagues and other development institutions, governments and other organisations
- Broad knowledge of economic policy development
- Strong analytical skills and writing ability to help identify and assess policy issues in support of policy dialogue
- Capacity to conduct independent research and analyses
- Capacity to prepare reports and documents
- Capacity to present and defend the consistency of proposed programmes and projects
- Capacity to work within specified time limits
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and oral) in English or French
- Competence in the use of bank standard software (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
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