Senior Associate, Corporate Finance at Sabi

Sabi is Africa's leading provider of enabling infrastructure powering the distribution of goods and services. Our platform enables and empowers a wide ecosystem of users, allowing agents, merchants, exporters, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using Sabi's technology rails. These rails provide access to physical goods supply, logistics, business tools, financial services and data insights. In a short span of two years, Sabi has grown to be the largest B2B marketplace on the African continent.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Associate, Corporate Finance

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• As a Senior Corporate Finance Associate, you will take on a unique, exciting, and impactful combination of challenges in four main areas: corporate finance transactions, embedded finance strategy execution, investor relations and management reporting. 
• You will support the team in strategic financial planning, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial modeling, and analysis.
• This role will play a key part in driving the company's financial strategy and decision-making processes, providing critical insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

What You Will Be Doing
Equity and debt capital raising:

• Lead financial modelling work-streams, virtual data room preparation, and transaction-related corporate filings work-streams
• Prepare transaction documentation including but not limited to information memorandum, teasers, and management presentations
• Support due diligence activities for fundraising and potential acquisitions explored by the business from time to time
• Provide support in engaging investors, negotiations with investors and the preparation of legal documentation
• Support post-deal management activities (covenant compliance, etc.)

Investor relations, governance and reporting:

• Respond to investor-specific reporting and information needs
• Coordinate the preparation of pre-meeting board packs
• Support company secretarial duties in managing Sabi’s corporate governance structure, including managing the corporate calendar.

Embedded Finance and Business Intelligence:

• Collaborate with the finance control team for the preparation of investor reporting, annual budgets, and quarterly management reports on performance against the budget
• Liaise with the business intelligence team to develop and manage robust performance monitoring metrics/dashboards, including monthly financial and non-financial KPIs and cohort analysis
• Develop and produce business intelligence, including reporting on non-financial KPIs such as impact reports
• Support any financial planning outside of the regular budget cycle
• Liaise with all other business units to challenge the status quo, implement new ideas, investigate and implement more efficient solutions and processes.

Others:

• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards, including accounting principles, tax laws, and corporate policies.
• Assist in the development and execution of corporate finance strategies, including capital structure optimization, liquidity management, and investment strategies.
• Support end-to-end M&A processes, including due diligence, financial analysis, valuation, deal structuring, and negotiation

Special Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or other business-related field.
• Between 4-6 years of relevant experience, preferably in one or all of the following areas: (Transactional) Corporate finance or VC/PE, Investment Banking, and/or Financial / Deals Advisory experience.
• Strong quantitative skills; familiar with company evaluation and valuation
• Financial modeling, financial analysis, and valuation experience
• Ability to take initiative with research and analysis and produce valuable results in conditions of uncertainty.
• Excellent problem-solving ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically with limited supervision, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues
• Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and database skills
• Excellent presentation and communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
• Financial services and/or Fintech experience will be a plus

Candidate Specification:

• Motivated by the mission of Sabi
• Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
• Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
• A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
• Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online