Project Finance Manager - Johannesburg at Mazars

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Review and / or Provide assistance with the initiation of engagement process.
• Review and / or perform and produce initial draft business plans and information memorandums. 
• Review and / or perform and prepare bankability feasibility studies/business cases for infrastructure projects, including PPP transactions draft reports (including changes after reviews and client feedback).
• Assist in performing transaction advisory services.
• Assist with the preparation of financial models.
• Viability studies and capital investment appraisals.
• Review and / or Assistance with preparing bankable feasibility study reports.
• Manage individual and Junior staff productivity.

Minimum Requirements    
Key Competencies

• Knowledge of project finance documentation and basic understanding of taking projects to financial close
• Willing to travel within Africa on engagements.
• Result-oriented approach with hands-on execution capability
• Initiative-taker with strong self-motivation and a proven capacity to work in a relatively newly established and growing team.
• Demonstrate the ability to leverage business development competence.
• Good presentation skills and an ability to assert ideas and influence others, to gain support and commitment.
• Analytical ability and good financial modelling skills, capable of assessing and building sophisticated “project finance” financial models.
• Ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Solving problems using a combination of intuition and analytics and ability to make sound professionally researched recommendations to clients.
• Effective use of MS Excel, MS Word & MS PowerPoint.
• Ability to deal with clients including CEOs daily.
• Good communicator with a sound grasp of English.
• Dedicated and committed - will need to work long hours at times to meet deadlines.
• Good report writing skills; and
• Good people skills.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set and analytical thinker
• 3 to 4 Years experience

Candidate skills:

• Undergraduate / Postgraduate studies in Finance/Engineering /Investment Analysis
• CFA is an added advantage.
• Minimum 3 years project finance experience

Closing Date    
2023/12/31