Investment Analyst - Metals & Minerals

CGAP; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The World Bank Group is seeking an Investment Analyst to work with IFC's investment teams, focusing on origination, structuring, negotiation, execution, and portfolio supervision of investment projects. You will collaborate across sectors and with cross-functional teams to drive value and impact.

Responsibilities include market research, financial modeling, investment proposals, host-country appraisals, and coordinating workshops for business development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct industry and market research and assist in marketing and business development efforts, including preparing pitch books and presentations for clients.
• Assist in screening and analyzing new business opportunities, including building and reviewing financial models and employing valuation methodologies to support investment analysis.
• Prepare internal investment proposal documents for senior management and credit presentation, describing the rationale and risks of proposed investments.
• Participate in investment appraisals in host countries and negotiations with clients.
• Monitor existing investments in portfolio companies.
• Work closely with sector, environment & social, and climate specialists on benchmarking of performance of metals & minerals projects.
• Collaborate with the team on evolving strategy for investment in the sector, drafting PowerPoint presentations and evaluating portfolio performance to improve profitability and impact.
• Organize workshops and conferences for business development and disseminate lessons learned internally; and work with IFC mainstream and upstream teams to promote new business and innovation.

Job description

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org

The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure

The Knowledge Bank’s Metals and Minerals Solutions and Impact team (KIMSI) is responsible for ensuring that the right mix of best practice, investment and advisory solutions are made available to our clients and WBG operational teams in the Metals and Minerals sectors. Our responsibilities include client relationship management, business growth through deal origination and execution, and portfolio supervision of complex projects.

Duties and Accountabilities:

Investment analysts work closely with IFC's investment officers, responsible for the origination, structuring, negotiation, execution, and subsequent supervision of IFC's investment projects. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Conducting industry and market research and assisting in the team's marketing and business development efforts, including preparing pitch books and presentations for clients.
• Assisting in screening and analyzing new business opportunities, including building and reviewing financial models to assess investment projects' viability and employing other valuations methodologies to support the investment analysis.
• Preparing internal investment proposal documents for senior management and credit presentation, including describing the rationale and risks of the proposed investment.
• Participating in investment appraisals in host countries and negotiations with clients.
• Monitoring existing investments in portfolio companies.
• Work closely with sector, environment & social, and climate specialists on benchmarking of performance of IFC metals & minerals projects.
• Work closely with the team on evolving strategy for investment in the sector, drafting PowerPoint presentations and evaluating portfolio performance to improve profitability and impact for IFC in the sector.
• Organize workshops and conferences for business development (including preparing presentations, marketing materials, etc.) and disseminate lessons learned internally; and,
• Work with both IFC mainstream and upstream teams to promote new business and innovation.