Job Description : Senior Associate for Microfinance Consulting in Africa
Established in 2002, Intellecap is one of the fastest growing strategic services firm in the international development sector. Intellecap aims to build intellectual capital dedicated to facilitating investments into socially motivated businesses and to assist these businesses in becoming more profitable and achieving greater scale through consulting and advisory inputs. Working in both indirect strategic advisory roles and direct design and execution modes, Intellecap leverages its understanding of mainstream, profit oriented business models to create unique solutions that generate both financial and sustainable social returns. Intellecap connects to the social space through its emphasis on field exposure to its team, as well as by ideating and incubating innovative adaptations of mainstream, profitable solutions to address the broader challenges of businesses in development.
Intellecap is looking for team members for its Business Advisory (BA) practice. The BA practice focuses on:
a. Supporting business models that emerge from the BOP (e.g. microfinance) to achieve scale and faster integration with the mainstream through better business plans, market intelligence and process excellence;
b. Support mainstream businesses and corporations engage better with the BOP markets either on their own or through partnerships with localized BOP-centric businesses.
Please visit our website (www.intellecap.com) to know more.
The details of the vacancy are given below:
Position: Senior Associate
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Experience/ Education:
• 3-5 years in banking/microfinance, an exposure to consulting is preferred;
• MBA from a premier B-School;
• Previous experience in Nigeria/ West Africa preferred.
Skills:
• An understanding of the microfinance space, ability to apply the knowledge to a new country and environment;
• Experience of microfinance operations and/or consulting, with a focus on institutional development including various functional areas such as Operational Efficiency Management, Delinquency Management, New product Development etc;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Strategic thinking for business development.
Job responsibilities:
• Providing on ground operational support to Intellecap's clients in Nigeria, while coordinating with other team members in India;
• Undertaking Business Development in this new geography while being a critical member of the delivery team;
• Building on relationships with potential and existing national and international clients;
• Represent Intellecap in Nigeria for a two-year period, and undertake relevant international field travel as and when required.
Please address your applications to Ms. Shree Ravindranath with a cover letter and detailed up-to-date resume to: jobs@intellecap.com
