Investment Analyst - Metals & Minerals

At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure The Knowledge Bank’s Metals and Minerals Solutions and Impact team (KIMSI) is responsible for ensuring that the right mix of best practice, investment and advisory solutions are made available to our clients and WBG operational teams in the Metals and Minerals sectors. Our responsibilities include client relationship management, business growth through deal origination and execution, and portfolio supervision of complex projects. Duties and Accountabilities: Investment analysts work closely with IFC's investment officers, responsible for the origination, structuring, negotiation, execution, and subsequent supervision of IFC's investment projects. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Conducting industry and market research and assisting in the team's marketing and business development efforts, including preparing pitch books and presentations for clients. • Assisting in screening and analyzing new business opportunities, including building and reviewing financial models to assess investment projects' viability and employing other valuations methodologies to support the investment analysis. • Preparing internal investment proposal documents for senior management and credit presentation, including describing the rationale and risks of the proposed investment. • Participating in investment appraisals in host countries and negotiations with clients. • Monitoring existing investments in portfolio companies. • Work closely with sector, environment & social, and climate specialists on benchmarking of performance of IFC metals & minerals projects. • Work closely with the team on evolving strategy for investment in the sector, drafting PowerPoint presentations and evaluating portfolio performance to improve profitability and impact for IFC in the sector. • Organize workshops and conferences for business development (including preparing presentations, marketing materials, etc.) and disseminate lessons learned internally; and, • Work with both IFC mainstream and upstream teams to promote new business and innovation.