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Senior Associate – Investor Relations & Capital Raising
Job Description
As an IR Capital Raising Senior Associate, you will support our clients and investment decisions by:
- Working with Finance, Asset Management, and Investment Teams to prepare investor communications including quarterly reporting, notifications, and incoming requests/inquiry templates.
- Creating financial analyses, including cash flow projections and fund-level calculations
- Liaising with Data Analytics team to increase reporting efficiencies, standardize and validate reporting processes and data information
- Analyzing qualitative, quantitative, and industry competitive landscape information and translate into strategic deliverables
- Providing support and oversight to capital raising activities including preparation, proofread and formatting of marketing materials, offering memorandums and flash reports for existing and new vehicles
- Liaising with third party services providers, including legal counsel and placement agents to execute capital raising activities
- Collaborating with business leads to prepare, proofread and format internal and external presentations
- Managing capital raising datarooms include file and contact management
- Maintaining investor information, meeting notes, and documentation within internal CRM database and investor portal
- Monitoring databases and research to develop and maintain investor and market intel and curate briefing materials for investor calls and meetings
- Provide oversight for annual investor conferences and general investor meetings, including preparing presentation materials and meeting execution
Skills And Qualifications:
- Five or more years of relevant work experience, preferably within an investor relations, fund accounting, or fund management capacity at a real estate, alternative investment, placement agent, or investment consulting firm
- Bachelor’s Degree with excellent academic credentials
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Experience interfacing with institutional and/or retail investors
- Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information and translate into strategic deliverables
- Ambitious self-starter with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and effective time management
- Strong proficiency with MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Proficiency in Salesforce and Investran, preferred
- Strong financial modeling skills, including proficiency with investment metrics and data analysis
- A desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team
Product Manager
Job Description
- Umba is currently in search of a Product Manager to join our team based in our Kilimani Office. In this role, the Product Manager will be responsible for overseeing the entire lifecycle of our credit products, guaranteeing their successful development and implementation.
- This individual will be actively involved in the strategy, product planning, and execution throughout the product lifecycle. This includes defining the product vision, gathering and prioritizing product requirements, working closely with other departments to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are exceeded.
Responsibilities
- Creating buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
- Developing product pricing and positioning strategies
- Translating product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
- Break vision into phases, prioritize and drive backlogs for launch with your dedicated engineering teams.
- QA the products that we are building
- Work with internal stakeholders from risk, legal, operations, and executive management to translate business needs into product requirements.
- Work closely with designers, developers (both locally and remotely), Q/A testers, and subject matter experts to get requirements well scoped, designed, tested, and built.
- Monitor and understand the key metrics governing your product area, with an eye toward continuously improving them through ongoing product innovation
- Establish product delivery timelines in close collaboration with the development team.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required, engineering, data science, economics, or related technical field is preferred
- 3-4 Years of Product Management Experience
- Proven results influencing stakeholders and displaying improvements
- Ability to translate complex problems and ideas into easily understood descriptions
- Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent backend platform systems that support the customer experience
- Proven ability to dive deeply into specific functional areas and learn a domain
- Proven ability to innovate and come up with ideas to help drive the product forward
- Proven ability to understand the business and engineering sides and get into technical detail
- Ability to assume a strong sense of responsibility and ownership in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent project management skills – delivery and action-oriented
Nice to have:
- Engineering background
- SQL, Python or any scripting abilities
- Startup mentality
- Experience in financial services
Work Status
- Valid work authorization for Kenya.