Investment Due Diligence Associate
Allied Talent Partners
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Location: 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
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About the role
- Provide full-time commercial and financial due diligence support for SME Lending Unit transactions across East and Southern Africa, reporting to the Investment Manager – SME Lending Unit.
- Prepare screening papers summarizing country, sector, and competitive context.
- Conduct initial borrower KYC (constitutive documents, IDs, licenses) and manage borrower data rooms.
- Perform preliminary and detailed financial analysis: review historical financial statements, calculate key ratios, assess projections, test sensitivities, and evaluate assumptions.
- Engage with borrower management teams; document findings from interviews, inspections, and market visits; join investment officers on site visits.
- Track progress against DD checklists, follow up to secure complete information packages, and provide feedback on gaps or inconsistencies.
- Incorporate cross-functional inputs (ESG, impact, legal, risk) into analyses.
- Draft commercial and financial sections of credit proposals, develop risk/mitigant narratives, and build screening papers into full credit proposals aligned with templates.
- Take primary drafting responsibility post-DD to free investment officers to progress other deals.
- Provide flexible support for sector deep-dives (e.g., clean cooking), support handover to portfolio management, and contribute templates or tools to strengthen unit capacity.
Requirements
- 5 years’ experience in investment analysis, transaction advisory, or financial due diligence.
- Prior exposure to DFIs, private equity, Big Four transaction advisory, or impact investment preferred.
- Demonstrated due diligence experience in energy access, clean cooking, commercial & industrial solar, or adjacent infrastructure.
- Strong financial modelling and ratio analysis skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with credit risk assessment and borrower due diligence.
- Understanding of African financial and energy markets.
- CFA designation (in progress or completed) preferred.
- Proactive self-starter with ability to independently drive work and collaborate across teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication; capacity to produce high-quality reports.
- Effective stakeholder management with internal colleagues and external borrowers.
- Adaptable to fast-moving, multi-country transaction environments; detail-oriented and deadline-driven.
- Language: English.
- Capacity for frequent travel across East and Southern Africa.
- Preferred location: Harare; remote acceptable with required travel.
- Availability ASAP and ability to contract October–December 2025 (potential extension).