Senior Financial and Transaction Advisor

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Senior Financial and Transaction Advisor

Rebel East Africa is seeking a highly motivated Senior Financial and Transaction Advisor with a strong instinct for business development, excellent financial and analytical capabilities, and proven experience in infrastructure development and project finance across Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Nairobi

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Full time

Introducing Rebel East Africa

Enhancing our impact in East Africa

At Rebel, our top priority is financial innovation and pioneering with a strong sense of responsibility towards improving African infrastructure and strengthening the financial sector. Our focus is on developing cutting-edge financial and strategic solutions that address real-world challenges for banks, DFIs and other organizations working on infrastructure development. Our Rebel East Africa office was established in 2018 with a vision to prioritize sectors that are crucial to the region, including climate and impact, water and sanitation, transport, renewable energy, and healthcare, among others. Our team has successfully put Rebel on the map in East Africa through our involvement in many infrastructure projects. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact in East Africa!

Some examples of our impactful transactions

• Rebel, together with its development partner is developing a privately-led initiative for the development of a bulk water supply and water treatment project to solve the challenge of insufficient water in Naivasha, for domestic and industrial water.
• We are providing transaction advisory services for the Pwani University National Teaching & Referral Hospital PPP in Kilifi.
• We are developing a strategy, as the transaction advisor, to implement sustainable and financially viable green technologies, with a focus on the solarization and optimization of water pumps in Kisumu, Kenya.
• We are leading the development of a robust, investment-grade financial model to support a private client’s + $20 million equity investment in the telecom tower sector.
• We support Aqua for All in transactions with Kenyan commercial banks that lead to more private financing in the water sector.

Joining Rebel East Africa

What it means to be a Rebel

To join Rebel is to enter a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment with inspiring colleagues. From our offices in Nairobi and as part of Rebel worldwide, you will work on initiatives in Kenya, Africa and elsewhere.

Rebel is an open organization whose core values are passion, trust and self-motivation. We encourage teamwork and sharing, innovation, entrepreneurial energy and continuous learning. Most importantly we strive to challenge convention and do what is effective and right.

What the position is about

This position is for individuals with 7-10 years of relevant experience in development finance, transaction advisory or related field. You will lead and participate in consultancy assignments for a variety of public and private sector clients. You play an important role in business development. You use your network and market knowledge to come up with project opportunities in the public and private sector. You actively participate in shaping the future of the Nairobi office.

Your role will include

• Active delivery of projects;
• Contribute to further growth of the business;
• Play a pro-active role in business development in East Africa;
• Developing proposals for new assignments;
• Assist the local and international team to conceptualize projects and provide project management support;
• Interacting with clients and Rebels in other offices.

Requirements

• You have a graduate (Master’s) degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or similar field;
• You have experience working as a financial expert in infrastructure transactions;
• You have an instinct for business development, market trends and a solid professional network;
• You are passionate about economics, (infrastructure) finance and development in the African context;
• You have experience with financial modelling;
• You have excellent English communication and writing skills and an ability to communicate at all levels;
• You are a self-starter and comfortable working in a small team and work well in a collaborative environment and you have a dedicated approach to work;
• You are strongly value-driven, with accountability and integrity being core to your center;
• You have an ability to solve problems on the basis of conceptual thinking as well as through application of quantitative analysis;
• You are able to operate, execute and deliver projects in an autonomous working environment with open communication;
• You are interested in working at the interface between the public and the private sector;
• You are willing to travel;
• You are a Rebel.

About us

In 2002 we started Rebel because we wanted to make the world a little bit better. Today, around 200 Rebels are working from our main offices in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Düsseldorf, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Washington DC, San Francisco, and Dubai on projects in socially relevant sectors including social infrastructure, mobility and transport, culture, healthcare, water, solid waste & circular economy and renewable energy.

We believe in small-scale business and entrepreneurship. For this reason, Rebel is organised as a galaxy of small ventures in which we are both employees and shareholders. Ventures are involved not only in advising but also in investing, for example through projects in which we are co-providers of capital, or through the setup of new business initiatives or investment funds.

We love what we do and particularly enjoy putting our hard financial and economic skills at the service of impactful projects in emerging markets.

Rebel ‘s clients include governments, international financial institutions, and private firms in most major infrastructure sectors including:

• Transportation: bus and rail transit, passenger rail, highways and toll roads, parking, bike/pedestrian trails, and microtransit;
• Social Infrastructure: government offices, schools, university buildings, hospitals, courthouses, stadiums, and other public buildings;
• Technology: broadband, connected vehicles, transit ticketing, bus electrification;
• Climate Resilience: infrastructure measures to address climate change;
• Energy: renewable energy technologies including solar, wind, and hydropower;
• Aviation and Ports: domestic and international owners and operators of commercial and general aviation airports and port facilities;
• Utilities: public and private organizations responsible for providing water, wastewater, and waste and storm water management.

Rebel’s advisory service offerings include financial analysis and modeling, transaction advisory, procurement strategy advisory, performance management and audits, PPP policy development, and capacity building.

Contact and applications

To apply send us a motivation letter with your Curriculum Vitae to [email protected] and [email protected].

Want to know more? https://www.rebelgroup.com/en/offices/kenya/

Rebel reserves the right not to proceed with an appointment of any advertised role

All applications will be treated confidentially.

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