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REGIONAL MANAGER (FREE STATE)

Secondments

  • R00 per month
  • Permanent Management position
  • Freedom Square
  • Posted 09 Oct 2025 by Secondments
  • Expires in 32 days
  • Job 2624355
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Role summary

The incumbent will serve as a senior investment professional responsible for leading the implementation of THE COMPANY's mandate in the province. To manage the regional office operations while directly originating, assessing, structuring, and implementing investment transactions. In addition, this role requires a strong dealmaker with sound financial modelling and investment analysis capabilities, coupled with the ability to represent the THE COMPANY in stakeholder forums, build strategic partnerships, and drive business development to achieve THE COMPANY's developmental and investment KPIs. Lastly, this position is suited for an experienced Investment Associate or Senior Investment Associate who can operate independently, manage the end-to-end investment process, and provide leadership to a small regional team without necessarily having prior formal management experience.

Outputs

Deal Origination and Investment Execution

  • Identify, originate, and structure commercially viable deals aligned with THE COMPANY's mandate in the Free State.
  • Assess new applications for commercial viability and eligibility against THE COMPANY's investment criteria.
  • Prepare investment proposals, including financial models, risk analysis, and investment motivations.
  • Present deals to THE COMPANY Committees (Investment and Credit) for approval.
  • Ensure timeous implementation and disbursement of approved transactions within set turnaround times.
  • Address Credit Risk queries and Legal structuring matters collaboratively with head office teams.
  • Oversee post-approval implementation and handover to Post Investment for monitoring.

Pipeline Development and Business Growth

  • Drive active deal flow generation within the province through stakeholder engagement, outreach, and business development.
  • Work with municipalities, provincial departments, DFIs, and business chambers to source viable projects.
  • Identify investment opportunities that contribute to job creation and provincial economic growth.
  • Maintain a strong and quality pipeline that aligns with THE COMPANY's annual investment and empowerment targets.

Financial Analysis and Modelling

  • Develop robust financial models to evaluate project feasibility, profitability, and repayment capacity.
  • Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to support decision-making.
  • Support valuations, pricing, and structuring of funding packages (debt, equity, or blended instruments).
  • Provide quantitative and qualitative inputs for investment reports and presentations.

Regional Leadership and Office Management

  • Oversee daily operations of the Free State Regional Office and ensure compliance with THE COMPANY policies.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to the regional analyst and administrator.
  • Ensure high-quality deal screening, timely reporting, and effective client communication.
  • Manage resources and workflows to meet turnaround time targets and organisational KPIs.
  • Foster a results-oriented, collaborative regional team culture aligned with THE COMPANY's core values.

Stakeholder Management and Representation

  • Represent the THE COMPANY in provincial stakeholder meetings, investment forums, and development partnerships.
  • Coordinate with provincial government, business associations, and local enterprises to promote THE COMPANY offerings.
  • Ensure alignment of provincial initiatives with THE COMPANY's strategic priorities and transformation objectives.
  • Promote THE COMPANY's visibility through outreach programmes, SME workshops, and public engagements.

Experience / Skills Required

  • Minimum 5 years' experience in investment analysis, deal structuring, or corporate finance.
  • Proven experience in SME funding, venture capital, or development finance.
  • Strong understanding of financial modelling, valuation, and credit risk analysis.
  • Exposure to legal and transaction documentation (Shareholders Agreements, SPAs, etc.).
  • Demonstrated ability to originate and close transactions independently.
  • Experience engaging with government and development stakeholders preferred.

Qualification Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Investment Management, or related field.
  • Postgraduate qualification (e.g., Honours, CFA Level 1, MBA) advantageous.

Personal Attributes/Behaviours/Attitudes

Key Competencies

  • Strong deal-making and analytical skills.
  • Advanced financial modelling and Excel proficiency.
  • Excellent business writing and presentation ability.
  • Ability to balance developmental and commercial imperatives.
  • Sound judgment, integrity, and decision-making ability.
  • Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to lead and inspire a small team.
  • Professional maturity and self-motivation
  • Integrity and ethical conduct.
  • Results-oriented and deadline-driven.
  • Strategic and proactive thinker.
  • Client-focused with a developmental mindset.
  • Collaborative and adaptable.
  • Professional representation of THE COMPANY at all times.

Desired Skills:

  • Commucation

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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Uniquely positioned to address your skills shortages, Secondments specialises in placing high-quality candidates in permanent, contract, project and interim management positions. We believe in creating synergy with our clients by building sound business relationships which enhance our understanding of their business and needs. Using a managed, controlled recruitment process, we are able to match the staffing needs of their organisations with suitably talented secondees. Our pool of professionals have a range of skills, both generic and specialist. These candidates, all of whom have verified education levels and experience, are available from two weeks to longer periods, depending on client needs. And if we do not have exactly the right fit for the role, we will source the best candidate. We are dedicated to providing a seamless, turnkey solution to ensure our clients get the right person, in terms of skill and integrity, at the right time to fulfil their organisational needs. Notwithstanding the name change due to the acquisition of Ernst & Young’s Advisory Secondments business to Secondments, the business has been in existence since 2003. The business was acquired as a going concern with the full staff complement, including all clients. This change broadens the scope of clients that Secondments can offer services to. Following a successful 13-year working relationship with Ernst & Young (EY), Siphiwe Dondolo, Jayson Theron and Carl Endenburg acquired the global audit and advisory firm’s secondment portfolio. Secondments started trading on 1 April 2015 with the full support of the EY Africa Executive Committee. Secondments works across South Africa, Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We support our clients through a sophisticated talent pool of associates, working regularly with colleagues across international borders. Our candidates can assist in the finance, risk, IT/technology, human resources (HR), management consulting, operations and supply chain fields – across a number of sectors – including: • Financial Services (Banking, Insurance and Private Equity) • Oil and Gas • Construction • Power and Utilities • Public Sector and Government • Health • Mining and Metals • Consumer Products and Retail • Technology, Media and Telecommunications • Automotive Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Secondments is a 51% black-owned Level 2 B-BBEE organisation, one of the few specialist recruitment consultancies that are a true Level 2 B-BBEE provider. Eleven per cent (11%) of our company is now in the hands of a Black Ownership Trust, making a real difference to previously disadvantaged individuals. We opted for this in the belief that it would make a significant impact rather than benefit a select few. We are determined not to pay mere lip service to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). Our Managing Director (MD), Siphiwe Dondolo, owns 40% of the business and was with EY for 9 years prior to moving over to Secondments as a shareholder and as the MD. OUR SERVICES As Secondments, we are confident we have the right combination of people, methodology, best practices and technologies to ensure we deliver seamless, efficient and effective services. These are based on a solid foundation of integrity, excellence, professionalism, best practice and value – delivered to both clients and candidates. Client services We offer the full- service of strategic talent matching ,namely: Permanent placements Executive Search Contract placements Temporary Employment Services Project Placements Interim management position placements Executive Search Our specialised service offerings have evolved in response to our clients’ unique needs for a strategic,customisable,Executive recruitment service whose delivery is executed with excellence in mind throughout the process. Leveraging off our unique networks within the Executive landscape to tap into passive candidates,our experienced recruitment team and proven track record in the industry we are best positioned to assist our clients to fill key positions in the most timeous, professional and efficient manner. Temporary contract staff work under the supervision and direction of our clients. Secondments manages them from a planning, HR, payroll and industrial relations perspective, however, freeing clients from time-consuming administration.

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