Eastern Cape Regional Manager

About the position

A well-established finance company based in East London has a position for an Eastern Cape Regional Manager. A successful Regional Manager will be responsible for Conduct Post Investment Unit monitoring and reporting of allocated portfolio of investments in the province under the supervision of the Senior Post Investment Associate and Post Investment Manager as per agreed outputs.
Duties & Responsibilities:

• Effectively screen, prepare and refer quality applications to Funds in line with organization's mandate and turnaround times.
• Ensuring that all applications received are screened; declined or withdrawn in no more than 5 days on CRM.
• Limit formal complaints on all received applications to no more that 3% of total applications screened for the period.
• Ensure that acknowledgement letters are sent to clients within 3 days.
• Ensure that majority of packaged applications that were referred to the Funds should be approved by an Investment Committee
• Conduct Post Investment Unit monitoring and reporting of allocated portfolio of investments in your Province under the supervision of the Senior Post Investment Associate and Post Investment Manager as per agreed outputs.
• Ensure 100% submission of Empowerment Dividend questionnaires are returned by investees within agreed upon timelines, including accuracy thereof.
• Provide effective administrative leadership in the office.

Experience / Skills Required:

• Have a working knowledge of SA Corporate law including the Companies Act
• Minimum of five years’ experience in the SME funding environment, venture capital and/or development finance arenas
• Sound technical and industry knowledge of the SME environment
• Well-developed business networks and proven ability to generate deal flow
• Strong technical and industry knowledge of the BBB-EE financing market including understanding of evolution of BBB-EE financing and BBB-EE Codes of Good Practice
• Working knowledge of BBB-EE financing structures, equity investments and mezzanine financing structures
• Some understanding of corporate finance disciplines such as valuation techniques
• Working knowledge of financing documents such as sale and purchase agreement and shareholders agreements.
• Strong credit and risk analysis skills
• Previous experience in managing people / professional teams.
• Well-developed presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills
• Strong organizational and strategic orientation
• Experience in development and implementation of strategic and business plans.

Qualifications:

Essential
B Com, B Com (Hons), CFA, CA (SA), MBA, B. Engineering

Preferred
Post graduate degree in Finance, Accounting and/or Tax, and/or Auditing.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not receive any feedback   within 2 months of the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful.

Desired Skills:

• Project management
• Process orientation
• Attention to details
• Planning & organising