Associate Investment Officer/Investment Officer, Supplier Finance- Washington, DC

Job #:	122579
Title:	Associate Investment Officer/Investment Officer, Supplier Finance
Job Stream:	Investment
Location:	Washington, DC
Closing Date:	11/25/2012
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, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. In FY12, our investments reached an all-time high of more than $20 billion, leveraging the power of the private sector to create jobs, spark innovation, and tackle the world’s most pressing development challenges.  Trade finance is the engine of an estimated $14 trillion in annual global commerce and is fundamental to the movement of goods at all stages of the supply chain, especially in emerging markets. IFC’s Global Trade Supplier Finance (GTSF) program is a $500 million multicurrency investment and advisory program that provides short-term finance to emerging market suppliers and small- and medium-sized exporters with a particular focus on businesses serving the manufacturing and agribusiness sectors. GTSF is seeking an Associate Investment Officer or Investment Officer to contribute to play a significant role in business development, investment processing and portfolio monitoring.
Duties and Accountabilities:
• Support business development of supplier finance projects with potential buyers, platforms or banks. • Play a significant role in the due diligence, processing and implementation of GTSF transactions and work as part of an extended industry team.  • Monitor operational and financial performance of clients and compliance (IFC and external), through client contact and market data. • Manage business volume turnover from Buyers and their Suppliers under GTSF for utilization, documentation, and issue resolution; assist with product rollout to new Buyers and support rapid and effective implementation. More specifically, the role will include: • Promote and expand GTSF project opportunities across ‘real sector’ clients, industry segments and geography to establish and grow the GTSF business in emerging markets.  • Manage a portfolio of existing GTSF relationships to ensure compliance with internal development goals, credit risk management requirements and maximizing return from utilization of buyer approved limits.  • Contribute to GTSF business development in identifying client opportunities; work closely with Buyers and Supplier operations, finance and sales staff; ability to understand and demonstrate improvement in cash flow and key profitability drivers for Buyers and Suppliers. • Help identify strategic partnerships to enhance the Supplier finance solution including recommending establishment of alliances or collaborative arrangements with third parties such as existing Banks programs and/or partners in the physical supply chain that maximize client value proposition and help strategic development of GTSF Program.  • Work with industry teams to prepare and manage approval of all Buyer credit proposals and/or reviews to ensure high portfolio quality, monitor Buyer exposure and market movements; track Buyer financial results and market news to identify and address deteriorating situations; structure transactions to ensure optimum utilization of lines balancing outstanding exposures with credit hurdle parameters. Support Buyer marketing teams with proposals and documenting credit proposals and regular review.
Selection Criteria:
• Master’s in Business Administration, Finance, International Affairs or similar degree • Minimum 4 years experience in finance, preferably in an investment banking role dealing with the real sector (e.g. manufacturing, agribusiness) value chain • Strong analytical and credit assessment skills, as well as solid understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis • Knowledge of the trade and supply chain and relevant industry sector trends • Team player with customer focus; good marketing and client relationship skills • Ability to deliver against deadlines and meet demanding schedules • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; fluency in other languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish or Russian) preferred  Applications must be submitted online. Only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates can check the status of their applications by visiting www.ifc.org/careers.