About this role
The ideal candidate is a senior finance and transaction leader with demonstrated deal closure in frontier markets, strong DFI engagement capability and the practical judgment to build systems that work in a fragile-state operating environment.
Deliverables
- Lead a capital-raising strategy, investor pipeline, information memorandum, data room and term-sheet or mandate process.
- Build an integrated lender-grade financial model with asset-level modules, DSCR, covenant, liquidity, FX and stress-test analytics.
- Implement lender-ready finance governance, including treasury policy, cash waterfall, delegations, reporting calendar and board KPI packs.
- Design HoldCo–AssetCo SPV structures, supporting agreements and implementation plan with external legal counsel.
- Train the internal finance team and deliver a documented handover package.
Requirements
Experience Required
- Senior CFO, VP Finance or equivalent leadership with ten or more years in relevant roles.
- Blended-finance transaction and DFI/impact-investor engagement experience.
- Frontier-market finance, governance and capital-raising delivery.
Technical Requirements
- Three-statement and project-finance modelling, DSCR and covenant analytics.
- Treasury, cash waterfall, SPV/HoldCo structuring and investor data-room management.
- IFRS and risk management in USD-dominated frontier markets.
Language Requirements
- Fluent English — essential.
- Somali or Arabic — preferred, not a hard requirement.
Soft Skills
- Comfortable with a highly autonomous advisory CFO mandate.
- Able to work across investors, management and a lean finance team.
Skills
DataLeadership