IFC Global Internship Program(17) - Infrastructure Portfolio Management Internship

Duties and Accountabilities:

This is an opportunity to work within the infrastructure Africa team, and support the supervision and management of a $5bn portfolio. The Intern will principally assist in delivering (i) essential credit/structuring benchmarks needed for our new transactions, (ii) enhanced operational process to support credit review of the portfolio, and (iii) fund management specific tasks. More specifically, the work will include:

Projects related:

Define (in discussion with the Portfolio Leads) a number of key commercial/credit/operational criteria to be tracked across our portfolio projects, that will inform structuring of new projects. Develop a database for these by working with the relevant projects IOs.

Improve the process of documenting key executed legal information by Projects (project “bible”, relevant amendments and waivers as processed through the PDS changes).

Portfolio operational:

Work with Portfolio Leads (and credit if needed) to design a template for PD and LGD on Word, that’ll be used to track changes between quarterly credit review.

Create a repository for portfolio knowledge management: lessons learned papers, XPSRs, key guidance notes.

Support training efforts in relation to specific topics (for example fund valuation/supervision, Equity valuation etc.).

Fund management specific:

Develop a format and produce IFC Africa Infrastructure Team Fund Investment 2-pagers for all fund projects (currently 10 projects in our portfolio).

Support generating a CRR in accordance with our investment procedures and requirements.

Selection Criteria

Candidates must be currently enrolled in a Master’s degree level program

Preferred field of study: Finance; Accounting; Statistics

Minimum of 2 years of previous work experience

Strong Excel skills are required

CFA would be a plus

Industries:International Trade & Development

Function: Accounting and Finance