Purpose of the Position
Governments, Development Partners, and
Philanthropists are torn between providing financing to address the various
humanitarian issues across the world, from famine, conflicts to providing aid
for climate and poverty alleviation and other social issues afflicting
humanity. But increasingly, there are calls to not lose sight of the
drive towards attaining the sustainable development goals and need to attract
the right type of funding for critical development infrastructure.
The multilaterals and development partners have also
come under pressure to scale up development finance. The Multilateral
Development Bank (MDB) model is a powerful multiplier of shareholder capital in
support of development. But much more is expected of MDBs in the 21st century
given the magnitude and urgency of development challenges confronting the
globe.
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) on the other
hand are repositioning themselves to support impact investing and are in
desperate need to accelerate private sector in a sustainable investment. They
are seeking solutions to be innovative and catalytic and in particular the
opportunity to crowd in commercial capital is a high priority at the moment.
In addition, Philanthropies are also quickly changing
and shifting away from the model of pure giving to wanting to see their grant
funds, unlock projects, and deliver on impact.
All three categories are seeking solutions that KPMG
can provide and which leverage our internal capabilities within Deal Advisory
& Strategy Services.
Key roles and responsibilities
Delivery
- Take ultimate ownership of a portfolio of development finance
mandates in the region, often taking the formal role of Team Lead and
leading multi-disciplinary teams of KPMG professionals and
sub-consultants, harnessing skills across commercial, financial,
procurement, legal, regulatory, environmental, social, and
technical/engineering backgrounds.
- Oversight of delivery teams that are developing strategy,
policy, pipeline, and investment attraction programs.
- Developing a suite of solutions for Development Partners, DFIs
and Philanthropies which will involve the transaction services offering of
strategy development, fund design, due diligence, feasibility studies,
debt and equity advisory and value for money assessments.
- Lead the capacity building of teams in region on development
finance.
- Influence the achievement of strategic outcomes (deployment of
DFI capital) for the benefit of our clients.
Business development:
- Work with partners and directors to develop all aspects of the
Deal Advisory business.
- Lead on service line innovation and expansion for Development
Partners, DFIs and Philanthropic clients.
- Lead an agreed portfolio of client service teams with specific
revenue generation targets across the various Deal Advisory service
offerings. Participating as a member of other Deal Advisory client service
teams.
- Lead the development of a robust business development pipeline
of opportunities including the development of detailed concept notes,
ownership of the preparation of all elements of technical and financial
proposals, leadership of (or participation in, as the case may be) of
client pitches, etc.
Academic/Professional Qualifications and Experience:
- Relevant Masters Degree in Finance/Business/Law.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience working with Government
agencies, DFIs and Philanthropies.
Technical skills and competencies:
- Deep strategy expertise, leading on Development Finance and
impact investment strategies.
- Leading engagement with Senior Executives in DFI space working
with multilaterals and development partners.
- Business development: develop strategies for clients, sectors,
countries, or regions with the objective of building a robust project
pipeline of opportunities across the Africa region. This includes
anticipating market trends, sector/country knowledge, leveraging existing
networks, building new networks and directly pursuing opportunities.
- Supervising, mentoring, coaching and managing staff: mentor
and coach less-experienced colleagues to help build talent and grow their
skills base. Support relevant manager(s) in staff recruitment and skills
development.
- Knowledge of the various sectors financial services,
healthcare, public sector, international development, Philanthropies.
- The ideal candidate will need to work with the KPMG Africa’s
Lead for Elevate in the development and deployment of KPMG’s Elevate
service offering across Africa.
Personal attributes:
- An expert-level grasp of blended finance and the issues
impacting MBD reform, DFI strategies and Philanthropies.
- Relationships: owning primary relationships with clients at
the highest level (chair/CEO/minister/ambassador or equivalent level).
- Priority account leadership: experience leading priority
accounts and achieving stretch revenue targets.
- Team leadership: ownership of pursuit, conversion and delivery
of multiple complex assignment simultaneously.
- Analytical skills: transaction structuring, financing strategy
structuring.
- Influencing skills: positively influencing client decision
making and ability to deal with a variety of stakeholders at the highest
level of client interaction.
- Pragmatic problem-solving skills: ability to handle and
resolve unstructured problems, flex and adapt in new environments to
create order and stability and provide effective solutions.
- Goal driven and result oriented: enjoys being measured and
being judged by performance results.
- Multicultural skills: must be able to operate and interact
across multiple African jurisdictions and uphold cultural diversity.
- Resilience and tenacity: must be able to sustain motivation
and commitment to goals and ability to deal with difficult client
conversations.
- Willingness for significant travel.
- Highest standards of ethics and integrity.
We offer:
- An exciting opportunity to work with a leading firm on the
cutting-edge of international development across Africa.
- Continuous learning and development.
- Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
- Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
How To Apply
If your career aspirations match this exciting
opportunity, please use the link below to apply: Filling the link is
mandatory for consideration alongside your application to talentrecruit@kpmg.co.ke quoting
‘Associate Director – African Development Finance Specialist’. This
position shall be shortlisted on a rolling basis.
Interested and qualified candidates to click this
link to apply; KPMG on forms.office.com
