Senior Investment Officer/Investment Officer

Jakarta

Organization: World Bank Group
Location: Jakarta
Grade: 2359
Occupational Groups:
- Economics
- Banking and Finance
- Impact investing, Social venture capital
Closing Date: 2025-12-06

IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities. Our mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

The Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services (MAS) Industry Group plays a key role in supporting IFC’s strategic priorities, covering investments in global manufacturing and services, agribusiness, health, and education sectors. MAS’ sectors play a critical role in providing goods and services to consumers, addressing core needs, creating jobs, contributing to government revenues, and stimulating growth. In IFC’s client countries, these sectors can account for as much as 80% of overall economic activity and can account for up to 90% of employment activity, particularly in the poorest countries.

MAS is seeking an experienced Senior Investment Officer/Investment Officer to be based in Jakarta to complement its team to cover Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services for its East Asia and Pacific operations. The successful candidate will be a key member of the Asia Pacific MAS team and will work closely with IFC offices in the region as well as the global team to develop new business opportunities, execute transactions as well as manage portfolio investments.

The Senior Investment Officer will have 12-15 years of investment experience while the Investment Officer is expected to have 10-12 years of investment experience, preferably managing clients in the manufacturing agribusiness and services sectors. Strong deal structuring, client negotiation and legal documentation coordination experience are required. Knowledge of specific business, social, environmental, and developmental issues related to these sectors is preferred. The candidate will play an active role in the full life cycle of the project, from business development to exit.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Develop long-term relationships with key clients and other stakeholders (e.g., government officials, regulators) at the working level to identify and act on opportunities for repeat business and engage effectively with other syndicate lenders at the working level.

• Collaborate with clients, including in FCS countries, to identify how IFC can add more value to their company and improve the quality of IFC’s investment.

• Engage in discussions with investment officers to gather insights for lessons learned on important topics and to identify additional areas where lessons learned could improve business development and transaction structuring.

• Supervise the gathering of lessons learned on important topics across the portfolio, connect trends from different areas of the portfolio, and make recommendations on how these could improve business development and transaction structuring.

• Gather market intelligence to stay informed of emerging trends in sector and country that could have a broad impact on a country or subsector portfolio.

• Lead quarterly assessments of ratings, loan loss reserves, or valuations for country, region, or sector portfolio; and conduct quality control over work performed by analysts and more junior investment officers.

• Analyze strategically important portfolio trends to identify where they are most concentrated and the contributing factors. Take a leadership role in discussing findings and their implications at review meetings.

• Negotiate straightforward waivers, amendments, and rescheduling; and prepare official restructuring memos for approval.

• Perform complex, credit risk rating assessments, covenant compliance reviews, and development impact assessment. Review the quality of portfolio review work performed by more junior staff.

• Oversee the portfolio management work of analysts and investment officers for assigned portfolio to identify gaps and create a macro view of the financial, compliance, and risk status of the portfolio, anticipating emerging risks.

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