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  • Posted: Mar 16, 2018
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    Komaza works to unlock the potential of small-scale farmers to solve Africa's wood supply crisis. Collectively, small farmers possess limitless land and labor resources to plant billions of trees. Komaza provides farmers with support across the forestry value chain, from seedlings to sawmills. With a dramatically lower-cost and more-scalable forestry model, ...
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    Corporate Finance Associate

    About The Team
     
    Komaza is entering a phase of rapid growth and will soon expand into new geographies. While the Komaza Model of smallholder forestry has proven its potential, Komaza also needs to adopt lean financing strategies that integrate various tools to support the companys growth. As Komaza is positioned at the linkage of impact investing, timberland investing, and climate financing, our team is responsible for creating effective blended-financing strategies to tap hundreds of billions dollars invested across these industries. In addition to conventional fundraising through debt, equity, and grant, the team is currently developing a new type of investment product for sustainable tree financing, partnering with the worlds largest financial institutions.
     
    About This Role
     
    The Corporate Finance Associate will lead fundraising-related projects at Komaza by conducting analyses, developing financial models, and administering investor communication to support rapid company growth. Bridging the vast management agenda and the day-to-day operations across Komazas value chain, Corporate Finance Associate will tackle a wide variety of challenges that determine Komazas financial capacity as well as long term management vision. The Corporate Finance Associate will report directly to the Corporate Finance Manager and work closely with the CEO.

    What You Will Do

    • Conducting financial and business strategy analyses across Komazas value chain to support management decision making
    • Design and develop corporate management metrics and financial models to improve growth management, corporate governance, and investor reporting
    • Design, build and continuously improve communication systems with investors throughout due diligence, investor reporting and output delivery
    • Facilitate Komazas fundraising activities by coordinating with relevant teams and departments to engage with investors and other relevant actors
    • Create reporting tools and systems based on deep understanding of user needs within functions and across departments and levels to respond to investors information requests
    • Launch new systems through documenting SOPs, developing and conducting trainings, and monitoring integration into operations, with an eye towards future improvements

    What You Have

    • Bachelors degree in a relevant field
    • Minimum 2 years of professional experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, or financial analysis/advisory
    • Project management and coordination skills for concurrent, complex projects
    • Lean and resilient startup mindset to conduct complicated analyses and system building with limited resources
    • Strong experience in systems mapping and iterative experimentation
    • Concept and strategy thinking skills to draw new vision out of fact/data-based business analysis
    • Passion for Komazas mission to lift rural farmers out of poverty through the rapid scaling of our microforestry model
    • Strong organisational, critical thinking, and communications skills with impeccable spoken and written English to produce professional investor/donor reporting

    How You Work

    • Define challenges and design solutions by questioning assumptions and seeking early-stage feedback
    • Build new systems through design-thinking lens and with a lean (MVP) approach
    • Manage projects using plans, budgets, RACI matrices and scenario BVAs
    • Commit to maximize learning of the team and its members
    • Leverage MS Office, G-Suite, Asana & Google Calendar to optimize productivity

    Youre Also

    • High energy and enthusiasm
    • Flexible and self-motivated with the drive to do whatever necessary to get the job done
    • Willing and eager to learn and master new technical and professional skills
    • Self-directed and intellectually curious – you know how and when to seek feedback in the pursuit of continuous improvement
    • Proactive at identifying and communicating challenges and proposed solutions to successfully accomplish work
    What We Expect
     
    You are a good fit for Komaza if you want to make a meaningful commitment to this role for a minimum of 2 years. This role is based at our headquarters in Kilifi, Kenya. The role offers competitive salary and benefits with potential for further career growth.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Komaza Kenya on jobs.lever.co to apply

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