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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Associate, Corporate Finance
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
- As a Senior Corporate Finance Associate, you will take on a unique, exciting, and impactful combination of challenges in four main areas: corporate finance transactions, embedded finance strategy execution, investor relations and management reporting.
- You will support the team in strategic financial planning, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial modeling, and analysis.
- This role will play a key part in driving the company’s financial strategy and decision-making processes, providing critical insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
What You Will Be Doing
Equity and debt capital raising:
- Lead financial modelling work-streams, virtual data room preparation, and transaction-related corporate filings work-streams
- Prepare transaction documentation including but not limited to information memorandum, teasers, and management presentations
- Support due diligence activities for fundraising and potential acquisitions explored by the business from time to time
- Provide support in engaging investors, negotiations with investors and the preparation of legal documentation
- Support post-deal management activities (covenant compliance, etc.)
Investor relations, governance and reporting:
- Respond to investor-specific reporting and information needs
- Coordinate the preparation of pre-meeting board packs
- Support company secretarial duties in managing Sabi’s corporate governance structure, including managing the corporate calendar.
Embedded Finance and Business Intelligence:
- Collaborate with the finance control team for the preparation of investor reporting, annual budgets, and quarterly management reports on performance against the budget
- Liaise with the business intelligence team to develop and manage robust performance monitoring metrics/dashboards, including monthly financial and non-financial KPIs and cohort analysis
- Develop and produce business intelligence, including reporting on non-financial KPIs such as impact reports
- Support any financial planning outside of the regular budget cycle
- Liaise with all other business units to challenge the status quo, implement new ideas, investigate and implement more efficient solutions and processes.
Others:
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards, including accounting principles, tax laws, and corporate policies.
- Assist in the development and execution of corporate finance strategies, including capital structure optimization, liquidity management, and investment strategies.
- Support end-to-end M&A processes, including due diligence, financial analysis, valuation, deal structuring, and negotiation
Special Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or other business-related field.
- Between 4-6 years of relevant experience, preferably in one or all of the following areas: (Transactional) Corporate finance or VC/PE, Investment Banking, and/or Financial / Deals Advisory experience.
- Strong quantitative skills; familiar with company evaluation and valuation
- Financial modeling, financial analysis, and valuation experience
- Ability to take initiative with research and analysis and produce valuable results in conditions of uncertainty.
- Excellent problem-solving ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically with limited supervision, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues
- Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and database skills
- Excellent presentation and communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
- Financial services and/or Fintech experience will be a plus
Candidate Specification:
- Motivated by the mission of Sabi
- Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
- Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
- High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
- A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
- Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Deadline: June 30, 2024
Job Features
Job Category | Corporate Finance Specialist |