Job Description

Job SummaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an Investment Associate: Rural, Township and Community Development Fund (permanent).The incumbent of this role will be based in either Mpumalanga or KZN Regional Office (Mbombela / Durban). Candidates who are willing to relocate to one of these mentioned provinces are accepted.Role Summary:To ensure the fund achieves its investment goals, customer service, business growth and client retention objectives in line with the mandate by sourcing deals and managing the entire process from origination through to disbursement.Experience / Skills Required:

• Deal origination to source quality deals
• Network building and use of professional relationship to yield a flow of quality leads
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in deal making environment
• PC literacy and competency in Excel spreadsheet, MS Word and MS PowerPoint
• Understanding of the organization mandate and investment guidelines
• Should possess good analytical and modelling skills and be able to apply the organization's financial modelling methodologies
• Business development and marketing of Rural, Township and Community Development Fund products
• Should possess amongst other the following skills in order to be able to conduct due diligence exercise:

• Accounting and/or auditing, law, tax;
• Should be able to gather data from all relevant sources, including industry experts;
• Be able to communicate at all levels and use interviews to gather data necessary in compiling investment reports;
• Have good writing skills;
• Be able to identify risks and recommend relevant risk mitigants;
• Understanding of various investment instruments and be able to structure deals and to apply them in relevant investment circumstances;
• Ability to negotiate terms and conditions of investment to minimize risk in each transaction;
• Communication and presentation skills to present investment reports to various committees for approval

Qualification Requirements:

• B. Com Degree (Finance, Accounting, Agricultural Economics, Business Economics);
• Deal structuring and implementation;
• Financial modelling and Business valuation methodologies.

Preferred:

• CA and/or MBA with agriculture/acquisition transaction background

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