Academic/ Professional qualifications and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, public policy, or a related field.
  
• Professional qualifications in ACCA, CFA, CPA are an added advantage.
  
• Minimum 4-7 years of experience in infrastructure advisory, project finance, PPPs, or transaction services.
  
• Experience in financial and transaction advisory, including but not limited to financial modelling, business case development, and project structuring.
  
• Exposure to infrastructure deals in the African context and/or emerging markets.
  

Technical competencies & Personal attributes:

• Passion for Africa’s development and commitment to improving infrastructure outcomes.
  
• Good communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering successful outcomes.
  
• IT proficiency, especially Microsoft Office.
  
• An eye for detail.
  
• Team player with leadership capability.
  
• Excellent coordination and planning skills.
  
• Multicultural skills to operate across diverse African jurisdictions.
  
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
  
• Resilience, tenacity, and the ability to handle difficult client conversations.
  
• Ability to multitask, flexibility, open-mindedness, and quick decision-making skills.
  
• Unquestionable integrity.
  

• Support the delivery of advisory engagements across all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle from strategy, development, delivery to secondary markets investments advisory.
  
• Lead the development of financial feasibility, business case (e.g., the Five Case Model, economic and financial cost-benefit analysis), commercial model study, regulatory and market analysis using international best-practice frameworks.
  
• Prepare and review comprehensive financial models to inform investment decisions, assess project viability, and support deal structuring, capital raising and project development.
  
• Provide strategic, commercial, financial, and technical input on project structuring, procurement processes, risk allocation, payment mechanisms, and financing strategies.
  
• Draft client-ready reports, proposals, memoranda, presentations, and other technical deliverables.
  
• Conduct market and sector research, stakeholder consultations, and benchmarking to guide project planning and decision-making.
  
• Support the preparation of client presentations, EOIs, concept notes, proposals and other business development materials to secure new mandates.
  
• Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders including government agencies, development finance institutions, project sponsors, investors, legal and technical advisers.
  
• Contribute to mentoring and developing associates and analysts and supporting thought leadership efforts.
  
• Any other tasks that will be assigned to you