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We are seeking a highly skilled Investment Officer to join our team at the International Finance Corporation. As an Investment Officer, you will play a critical role in identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, and structuring transactions to support the growth of our clients' businesses.

• Analyze operational and financial performance, as well as credit and integrity risks, of potential clients and projects
• Develop client strategies, engagement plans, and pitchbooks for various sectors and countries
• Collect financial and operational information from clients, research pricing information, policies, and procedures
• Build complex financial models, perform due diligence and financial analysis, and/or provide quality control over financial analysis and projections developed by an analyst
• Ensure adequate and systematic capture of project, sector, and country benchmarking information to capture lessons learned and support decision-making in future transactions
• Assess and articulate development impact, IFC's role, and additionality in straightforward transactions
• Prepare content to convey persuasive and convincing ideas following investment banking quality standards
• Draft memos and concept notes for repeat business
• Follow up with mid- and senior-level clients to resolve problems on straightforward projects
• Engage with mid-level clients on straightforward projects to understand their business directions and challenges that may lead to new opportunities
• Establish and maintain relationships with mid-level clients and other stakeholders to explore straightforward business opportunities
• Monitor macroeconomic indicators of sector and country market conditions as well as social and political information that are relevant to the assigned portfolio
• Perform credit and risk assessments, financial projections, covenant compliance reviews (debt), and monitor changes to risk flags for determining performance assigned to a portfolio
• Contribute to structuring the blended finance component of projects, including providing relevant inputs for the modeling of respective risks and subsidies
• Prepare investment committee materials for straightforward transactions, ensuring adequate applicability of IFC's policies and procedures
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to identify ways to strengthen the development impact and financial sustainability of projects
• Support senior investment officers in preparing and presenting investment proposals to the IFC Blended Finance Committee
• Hold accountability for the preparation and quality of investment committee materials focusing on financial and non-financial risk assessments and deal structuring for straightforward transactions
• Prepare quarterly portfolio reports that include analysis of trends over time, key issues, and areas of potential concern
• Prepare brief documents summarizing postmortem insights from portfolio reviews and reporting to identify improvement opportunities and best practices
• Supervise and ensure the quality of portfolio reporting information prepared by junior staff
• Lead efforts to synthesize information from past transactions and extract lessons learned within a targeted area
• Research untapped markets to identify constraints to private sector investment as input to upstream market creation decisions or Country Private Sector Diagnostics
• Responsible for doing rating reviews of loan loss reserve on a quarterly basis for the assigned portfolio
• Structure straightforward transactions to add value to clients and mitigate risks

• Master's degree in a related field and at least 5–8 years of relevant experience
• Ability to apply and understand investment transactions to concretely assess business opportunities and possible solutions to create markets
• Capacity to identify barriers to market creation opportunities in a targeted country by tapping into relevant internal expertise and synthesizing information on local regulatory and economic contexts, industry and sector structure and landscape, and constraints clients are facing to grow their business
• Ability to identify and contribute to designing novel and/or scalable approaches, such as leveraging WB instruments or de-risking/blended finance tools
• Understanding of relevant country strategies
• Knowledge of IFC ES&G standards and how they relate to client engagement and WB products and operations
• Evidence of active listening skills by paying full attention and asking questions to clarify client and stakeholder needs and gather required information
• Ability to interact effectively with clients and stakeholders by acting professionally, responding to their requests and inquiries, delivering what is promised, and meeting deadlines
• Capacity to build productive and mutually beneficial relationships and networks internally and externally to identify business opportunities, discuss structuring alternatives, and resolve issues
• Ability to maintain a relevant network in the sector, country, and region to identify new business opportunities and markets
• Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills to effectively influence the perception and support of clients/stakeholders
• Ability to draft documents and reports that are concise, well-organized, and appropriately focused on the most critical points relevant to the target audience
• Utilize charts, graphs, and other presentation techniques to simply communicate complex data and concepts
• Ability to share valid opinions and new observations relevant to project outcomes with project leaders in a manner that is concise, cohesive, and focused
• Ability to tailor explanations of IFC's value proposition to specific clients and share relevant information on industry practices
• Understanding of market and sector drivers, business and market development cycles, regulatory environments, and how business performance and long-term competitiveness and viability are measured within a sector, and how sector dynamics may evolve within a country or region
• Proven analytical, financial analysis, equity valuation, and financial modeling skills to analyze and form conclusions on company financial information or projects and industry indicators
• Capacity to consider transactional aspects of the opportunities being created through Upstream initiatives
• Expand transaction experience by working on straightforward investment transactions with a diverse range of clients across multiple financial subsectors and by getting exposure to a variety of funded, unfunded, corporate finance, and structured finance products