Analyst, Coverage East Africa at Trade and Development Bank (TDB)

Job Summary

The Analyst Coverage provides financial analysis, administrative, and technical support to the East Africa Coverage officers to advance TDB Group’s operations, grow its client coverage strategy and support revenue generation.

Job Specifications

The key roles and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Work with the Executive, Coverage, and the broader team on developing new markets and business opportunities.
• Help screen projects at early stages for financial viability, risk, and developmental impact.
• Analyze operations and different business models in the relevant industry and support Coverage Officers in preparing country, sector, and client strategy papers.
• Conduct industry, market, and company research including undertaking financial review and analysis of customers financial statements to assist with identifying customers’ needs and crafting bespoke solutions.
• Participate in all aspects of the deal approval process including due diligence, appraisal, and approvals.
• Prepare transaction-related documents for internal and external audiences including marketing material.
• Perform analytics on markets, companies, portfolio data and storage of market and other relevant information.
• Help design and maintain proper KPI database for portfolio companies and opportunities and internal KPIs including budgets and pipelines.
• Work on development and update of lessons learnt database and knowledge management materials.
• Support Coverage Officers during disbursement by proactively engaging with lending operations, treasury, and other departments to ensure timely disbursement.
• Support various technical and clerical tasks in connection with the management and the closing of transactions handled by the department (e.g., producing pitchbooks, transaction timetables, making, and receiving phone calls, and preparing and sharing correspondence, routing of documents, processing instructions and invoices to customers, etc.).
• Maintain transaction and customer information in accordance with applicable policy.
• Support various operation-related projects and initiatives in the department.

Qualifications and Competencies

• A degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, or related field, with relevant professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CFA or equivalent as added advantage.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in customer focused corporation in a customer facing role, including work experience in finance, banking, investment advisory.
• Robust analytical and quantitative orientation with financial modelling and conceptual skills encompassing finance, investment, risk management and corporate finance.
• Excellent problem solving, negotiation, organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, manage dynamic priorities, strong professional independence, unquestionable integrity and able to work under pressure to deliver on strict deadlines with minimal supervision.
• A results-oriented individual with excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in English is a requirement. Knowledge of TDB’s other working languages (French or Portuguese) would be an added advantage.