Senior Investment Officer
Almaty | Istanbul
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Almaty | Istanbul
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Economics
- Banking and Finance
- Impact investing, Social venture capital
- Closing Date: 2025-07-04
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.
The Financial Institutions Group (FIG) is one of IFC’s key departments responsible for a significant portion of IFC’s business volume, profitability, and development reach, approximately 40%. FIG engages in a wide range of sub-sectors, including Microfinance, SME, Gender, Climate, Insurance, Capital Markets, Housing, Distressed Assets, and other areas, with both investment and advisory services delivered globally to IFC’s clients through IFC’s global network. FIG has the following main objectives: 1) financing climate risk mitigation and adaptation; 2) advancing financial inclusion; 3) promoting gender equality; 4) servicing the real economy; and 5) mobilizing third-party resources.
FIG is recruiting a Senior Investment Officer (SIO) to join its Middle East, Central Asia, Türkiye, Pakistan and Afghanistan (MCT) Team which originates, manages, and monitors IFC's financial sector investments. The SIO will help grow and develop the investment business and take an active role in the supervision of the FIG investment portfolio across MCT. The pipeline of new investment opportunities in the region includes bilateral and syndicated debt, publicly and privately issued bonds, equity/quasi-equity/Tier-2 investments, risk sharing facilities, and structured finance products.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Develop long-term relationships with key clients and other stakeholders (e.g., government officials, regulators) at the working level to identify and act on business opportunities and engage effectively with other syndicate lenders at the working level.
• Work with clients to identify how IFC can add more value to their company and improve the quality of IFC’s investment.
• Supervise the gathering of lessons learned on essential topics across the portfolio, connect trends from different portfolio areas, and recommend how these could improve business development and transaction structuring.
• Contribute to shaping upstream market creation approaches or interventions for the financial sector across the MCT region.
• Contribute to the formulation and the implementation of a cross-regional business development strategy.
• Collaborate across IFC, World Bank and MIGA to support business development for the IDA PSW and other blended finance facilities and maximize the value of strategic partnerships.
• Contribute to the quarterly assessments of ratings, loan loss reserves, or valuations in respect of the FIG MCT portfolio.
• 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 quarterly review meetings.
• Lead teams in structuring deals that strike a balance between clients’ expectations and protecting IFCs and other lenders’ rights.
• Conduct quality control to ensure the accuracy and adequacy of analytical work performed by junior staff to assess transactions.
• Assess and articulate the development impact of various investment projects.
• Maintain high-level relationships with clients to stay on top of industry trends and create new short-term and future business opportunities.
• Oversee or supervise assigned staff and consultants.
• Develop assigned staff and members of the broader team through mentoring, coaching, and providing on-the-job learning opportunities.
• Perform complex credit risk rating assessments, covenant compliance reviews, and development impact assessments. 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.
• Prepare investment committee materials focusing on financial and nonfinancial risk assessment and deal structuring.
• Use networks to keep project moving and collaborate with key internal stakeholders to obtain buy-in on deals and negotiate risk and mitigation strategies. Ensure seamless communication flow and cooperation among all IFC team members and external stakeholders.
• Shape business leads into actionable concepts ready for mandate by identifying and screening potential investment opportunities, preparing the investment thesis, and leading the pre-concept review structuring of those opportunities.
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Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.