Senior Associate Agribusiness Food and Water (Latin America)

Looking for an exciting opportunity to use your banking skills to make positive impact in developing countries? Do you have can-do mentality and at least 5 years of relevant work-experience in corporate banking or development finance? If yes, join FMO to give the work you do more meaning.

Your Role

The Agribusiness Food and Forestry department, team LAC / Forestry, is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Associate with a passion for Forestry. The ideal candidate is a professional that combines corporate banking credit analysis experience with a passion for emerging market impact investments and forestry. The Senior Associate is a proactive team player, eager to learn, customer focused and delivers high quality output. The Senior Associate will report to the manager LAC / Forestry.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring:
  -Preparation of credit reviews including market and financial analysis
  -Build and maintain relationships with relevant people of our clients.
  -Support clients by responding to requests for information.
  -Drafting of disbursement memos and change requests. Client monitoring visits.
• Provide support in originating and structuring new deals:
  -Preparation of investment proposals undertaking analysis and discussions with internal staff & clients.
  -Market research relevant for the Forestry sector.
  -Administrative tasks with regards to file completion (compliance and reporting) Planning and execution of due diligence visits.
  -Excel financial modelling to prepare cash flow projections. Client visits.
  -Analysis of financial data including ratios, budgets etc.
  -Legal contracting
• Provide input to the team business plan. Participate in internal project teams (including outside the LAC / Forestry team).

Our Offer

We offer meaningful and impactful work in an international work environment.

• A competitive gross yearly salary of between EUR 65 – 80K based on 40-hour work week (including holiday allowance), depending on seniority, years of experience and background.
• Premium free pension and 31 holidays.
• Working remotely, flexible work arrangements, and hybrid way of working can be considered.
• A 24/7 NS transport card and individual training budget. Our beautiful work premise is located 5 minutes’ walk from the station Laan van NOI in The Hague.
• For more information, please visit our website Secondary Benefits - FMO

Your Team

FMO is a purpose-driven organization that is more than a bank with a focus on impact investing and deepening relationship with clients. A diverse and international working environment with 750 colleagues representing over 60 different nationalities. We offer impactful roles where you are able to create positive change in developing countries.

The Agribusiness, Food & Forestry department (AFF) is responsible for making investments in the Agribusiness and Forestry sectors in emerging markets. AFF works with companies along the value chain including primary producers, processors, traders, and logistical services providers. The main objective is to invest in private sector companies that produce and distribute food and fiber, work with (smallholder) suppliers and positively contribute to reducing deforestation and biodiversity loss whilst creating meaningful jobs.

Within AFF, the Forestry team comprises 5 investment professionals and is responsible for debt investments in the forestry industry with a focus on forestry plantations, natural forest management and raw material processing. The AFF Forestry team is part of the wider and cross departmental Forestry group that includes colleagues from Private Equity and Partnerships for Impact and that work closely together. Jointly FMO has an ambition to invest up to EUR 1bln in the Forestry sector by 2030.

Your Background

• Master's degree – preferably in finance or business administration.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in financial services.
• Knowledge / experience in credit analysis of debt transactions.
• Knowledge of and affinity with the forestry sector including for ESG topics is a strong advantage.

Skills

• Ability to analyze and report on financial and economic data, markets and how this drives the credit quality of the client.
• Displays strong financial and ESG risk awareness, while thinking creatively with an entrepreneurial focus and is service/client-oriented.
• Capacity to concisely report – in English – on the performance of the client in terms of credit risk, impact as well as ESG related topics.

Competences

• Flexible, pragmatic, solution-oriented and has a “can-do” mentality
• Good knowledge of financial applications of Excel, including Financial Modelling Strong presentation and negotiating skills.
• Strong skills in planning, administration, organizing and prioritizing.
• Strong team player.

You live FMO’s core values: diversity, quality, integrity and making the difference. Fluency in English

Good to know. We will only consider applications submitted via the recruitment platform in English and accompanied with a motivation letter. This position is based in Den Haag, Netherlands.

Are you enthusiastic about this opportunity and do you meet the criteria? We would love to hear from you and learn more about you. So please, apply today! #PioneerDevelopScale.