Education & Qualifications

• Open to applicants aged between 24 – 30 years of age.
  
• A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline. The specific field matters less than the analytical capability and structured thinking it demonstrates.
  
• Professional progress toward CFA, ACCA, or an equivalent financial qualification is an advantage.
  
• Demonstrated proficiency in financial modelling — including the use of AI-assisted tools for model construction and analysis — is required.
  

• Conduct a deep and systematic research exercise into developer compensation structures across comparable infrastructure and energy transactions in sub-Saharan African markets — including IPP and IPT projects financed by equity funds, DFIs, development banks, and impact-oriented investors — establishing a defensible market benchmark range for developer fees, cost reimbursement, and development premiums.
  
• Working closely with the Accountant, build and maintain a project-level development cost register for each active project — capturing all costs incurred by the platform from origination through to the current stage, including staff time (benchmarked rates considered), consultant fees, regulatory costs, travel, studies, and third-party expenses — organised in a format that is auditable, investor-ready, and structured to support cost recovery negotiations.
  
• Develop Kwanza's developer compensation policy — a clear, documented internal framework that states the platform's basis for cost recovery, the methodology for calculating the development premium, the negotiating range the platform will defend, and the market evidence and precedent that supports each element.
  

• Build, maintain, and continuously refine financial models for the platform's active projects — using AI-assisted modelling tools to improve speed, flexibility, and analytical depth across different infrastructure typologies.
  
• Develop appropriate funding models for novel or first-of-kind project structures where established templates do not exist — researching comparable financing approaches, identifying applicable instruments, and building bespoke models that reflect the specific risk, revenue, and capital structure of each project.
  
• Interpret financial model outputs in the context of investor discussions and financial close negotiations — translating complex modelling results into clear, accessible, and decision-oriented analysis that leadership can use directly in counterparty conversations.
  

• Identify equity investors, lenders, DFIs, climate finance facilities, philanthropic capital providers, project preparation facilities, and blended finance platforms relevant to the Platform's active and future projects — adding each to the investor and capital provider map.
  
• Identify and assess grant and concessional capital opportunities — covering project preparation facilities, technical assistance grants, blended finance instruments, climate finance mechanisms, institutional capacity grants, and community impact funding programmes relevant to the platform's projects and operations — feeding the opportunity register.
  
• Drive the grant pipeline across all three mandates — managing eligibility assessments, submission preparation, funder engagement, and active applications — with the pipeline dashboard, application status tracking, submission calendar, and reporting workflows.
  

• Working with the Accountant, maintain an up-to-date development cost register across all active projects — ensuring that every cost incurred is captured, coded, and reflected within a defined timeframe of being recorded.
  
• Produce monthly and quarterly development cost reports for leadership — summarising the cumulative development investment per project, the burn rate against projected development budgets, and the implications for developer compensation recovery at financial close.
  
• Track and analyse the relationship between development costs and project progress — identifying projects where costs are running ahead of development milestones and flagging these to leadership with recommended interventions.
  

• Support the management of investor and lender relationships during financial close — preparing briefing materials, responding to due diligence queries, coordinating information flows, and maintaining the momentum of financing discussions.
  
• Prepare the financial content of the data room — financial models, cost registers, projections, sensitivity analyses, and financial due diligence materials — ensuring it is current and responsive to investor and lender requirements. The Associate maintains the data room structure, access control, and version management.
  
• Drive resolution of financial conditions precedent for each active transaction — working alongside the Associate, Project Development & Delivery — using the conditions-precedent tracker.