Senior/Principal Investment Officer - Portfolio- Washington, DC

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Senior/Principal Investment Officer - Portfolio- Washington, DC- 120132
Job #:	120132
Title:	Senior/Principal Investment Officer - Portfolio
Job Stream:	Infrastructure
Location:	Washington, DC
Closing Date:	02/27/2012
Background / General description:
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. We help developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, providing advisory services to businesses and governments, and mobilizing capital in the international financial markets. In fiscal 2011, amid economic uncertainty across the globe, we helped our clients create jobs, strengthen environmental performance, and contribute to their local communities—all while driving our investments to an all-time high of nearly $19 billion. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. The Global Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Infra NR) Global Portfolio Unit (CNGPO) is seeking to recruit a Senior/ Principal Investment Officer, reporting to the Infra NR Global Portfolio Manager. The portfolio function is a key role within IFC, providing key client relationship management and ensuring ongoing oversight and strategic management of our portfolio. The role of the Global Infra NR Portfolio team is to: (i) oversee global portfolio projects ranging from active management of equity investments to loan oversight; (ii) provide regular portfolio and operational reporting to IFC management and financial reporting functions. These activities include the identification of portfolio and operational issues and opportunities, as well as the analysis of global trends and market environment. In fulfilling its tasks the team coordinates closely within the regional portfolio and new business teams within the Infra NR department, and across various operational and support departments in IFC as well as the World Bank.
Duties and Accountabilities:
• Support department manager with department oversight and delivery of targets; • Independently and proactively manage Infra NR portfolio projects. This requires professional client relationship management and project oversight, in coordination with the relevant regional departments; • Role includes responsibility for valuations, oversight of compliance with investment agreements, credit reporting and developing and implementing equity sales strategies; • Implement supervision of new products and identify and recommend improvements to portfolio procedures and manuals relating to new products; • Support analysis of Infra NR portfolio results and lead the development of new global portfolio reports; • Support data integrity and quality reporting for Infra NR investment portfolio and operations; • Network with central functional units of IFC and other departments to support teamwork and innovation in portfolio management and analysis; • Support mentoring and development of portfolio and investment staff in the region; • Provide inputs on corporate-wide initiatives and projects related to portfolio process and management.
Selection Criteria:
• MBA or advanced degree in business, finance or accounting, and a minimum of 10-15 years of relevant professional experience in banking, asset management or equivalent • Strong client focus and excellent team player; • Good ‘deal sense’ based on demonstrated strong analytical skills and sound business judgment; • Proven success in developing client relationships and executing quality investments; • Willingness to travel for relationship management, project supervision and internal portfolio management related activities; • Strong interest in asset management and portfolio related matters; • Ability to analyze process requirements and translate them into design specifications for process changes; • Proactive and self-motivated; • Ability to work well under time and workload pressure with minimal supervision; • Strong communication skills in English, both written and oral, to convey supervision and operational issues in a clear and concise way to management and staff Only online applications are accepted. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.