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AltGen

Senior Investment Specialist – Project Finance – Johannesburg

Johannesburg, GP, ZA

In-personFull time roleSenior Level

11 months ago

About the Job

Have a top-shelf skillset but wish your career involved working on more meaningful projects within Southern Africa?

We’re looking for a Senior Investment Specialist to join our client, a well-known, major player in the financial sector, in their offices in Cape Town. Their diverse portfolio includes elements of digitisation, energy transition urbanisation, and transport and logistics across several southern African countries.

Your extensive experience in both the project finance and investment spheres of the infrastructure sector has made you an expert in deal origination and stakeholder engagement.

You are stellar at bringing deals together, applying a softer touch in negotiations with your existing network of clients to develop and manage principal transactions and investment opportunities.

Ready to use your expertise in projects that matter? Apply now!

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RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Proactively identify and secure transaction opportunities to drive business growth
  • Actively contribute to the creation of principal transaction proposals and secure the necessary internal endorsements
  • Oversee transactions through our client’s process, ensuring the coordination and prioritisation of tasks, managing input from advisers, and maintaining client relationships in line with protocols and procedures
  • Independently lead negotiations on specific transactions with third parties, transaction counterparties, external advisers, co-investors, debt providers, and other stakeholders
  • Provide expert advice to internal committees regarding transactions
  • Assist the Strategic Initiatives team with sector knowledge and transaction updates
  • Thoroughly address investor queries related to transactions, portfolio companies, and sectors.
  • Independently manage co-investment processes, engaging co-investor peers to achieve successful outcomes
  • Engage in peer discussions on financial and operational performance with senior management at assets to identify, structure, plan, and deliver significant operational improvements
  • Represent our client and contribute value on the boards of investee companies
  • Manage relationships between our client’s, assets, co-investors, and finance providers, including designing and managing corporate governance frameworks, management incentive plans, transition plans, risk management assessments, strategy, and budget negotiations
  • Participate in mentoring and managing less experienced team members

About the Company

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AltGen

United Kingdom

21-50

<p>Renewable Energy and sustainability are cornerstones to the history of AltGen, both run through our veins and breathe life into our vision and mission.</p> <p>Our team has found a home in effecting change through people, we understand that people make the brand &ndash; it&rsquo;s these people who are the ambassadors and pioneers that awaken the growth potential. AltGen exists in the nexus between energy-related projects and people - Jobs.</p> <p>Since the development of the renewable energy market in Africa, the AltGen team have actively recruited and deployed the best skills and expertise in the industry throughout Africa. We are ever-evolving. We have incorporated consulting and employment services into our service offering - understanding how each feed added value to the next, providing a holistic solution for our clients. We are the career visionaries and advisers, we provide long-lasting and positive relationships between clients and candidates, matching corporate cultures to personalities, expertise as well as experience.</p> <p>Where others see atypical recruitment, we see innovative solutions which generate long-term investments. We go over and beyond, we are the difference. We make a point of raising the bar and developing careers which facilitate access to affordable clean energy. Our goal is to raise industry standards and enable more effective climate change mitigation projects through the support of passionate and talented individuals.</p> <p>As AltGen rapidly expands into the global market, we hope to take you on this journey with us. Together, the ability to amount to the difference we make is measurable, it's tangible and real.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>We offer:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Talent Acquisition &amp; Executive Search Solutions</li> <li>Employer of Record &amp; Workforce Management Solutions</li> <li>Consulting, Community Development and Programme Implementation &amp; Trust Administration Services</li> </ul>