Investment Analyst - Sub-Saharan Africa

Abous usSymbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing, dedicated to private markets in emerging and frontier economies. The group offers investments, asset management and capacity building services.Symbiotics Investments focuses on loan origination and bond issuance. It currently employs 100 people and is headquartered in Geneva, with offices in London, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Singapore, Cape Town, New Delhi and Yerevan. Our affiliates in London and Amsterdam are both regulated entities, with relevant investment firm licenses for the United Kingdom and the European Union respectively. Since 2005, Symbiotics Investments has originated 7,500 investments representing more than USD 9.4 billion for 575 companies in 95 countries.We are a fast-growing, market-leading company, offering a dynamic work environment in the growing impact investment space. Our people are our biggest competitive advantage.We believe that in order to recruit the best professionals all applications must be reviewed equally. For this reason, we will not require personal data such as photos, date of birth or gender to be included on CV applications.Who we are looking forAn experienced Investment Analyst who will be responsible for developing and maintaining business relationships with portfolio companies in Sub-Saharan Africa, developing a pipeline of potential investments, traveling to and performing on site due diligence on these companies, analyzing credit risk, understand their debt funding needs, and monitoring their financial and operational performances during the investment's life.The position is based in Cape Town (South Africa), but we are also open to candidates who want to be based out of Dakar (Senegal) or Nairobi (Kenya).We offer a dynamic work environment in a growing industry and an opportunity to work in the social investment space with a for-profit corporation.
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