About Agents for Impact (AfI)

Being Agents for Impact means more than just a job to us. As experienced experts who act with conviction and passion, we see Impact Investing as an optimal solution to the challenges of our time. We advise financial institutions in incorporating sustainability into their investment strategies and support them in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (Risk). We conduct sustainability ratings based on our AFISAR© Rating Tool to measure the sustainability performance of companies to render positive impact quantifiable and comparable. The AFISAR© Rating builds on extensive research to benchmark the rated company against its peers (Rating). Furthermore, we assist impact investors in identifying, structuring and monitoring viable, tailor-made investment opportunities in microfinance globally. Thereby, we build bridges between investors and the world of impact investments and make financial inclusion structurally and legally possible for investors (Research). Our goal is to create impact, which is fair, sustainable and responsible. Our positive working atmosphere is shaped by openness, respect, and a common passion for impact. To further support our business growth, our team is looking for a Business Operations Analyst.

About the job

As Business Operations Analyst you will be responsible for AfI’s day-to-day operations in AfI’s three business pillars (Risk, Rating and Research), closely cooperating with our business teams in Germany, India and Ukraine as well as with our CEO. Thereby, this position offers first-hand insights into impact investing and the operations of a growing, dynamic organization. The candidate will mainly oversee business operations, finance/controlling and marketing/communications, and support the CEO in diverse management matters.

Details: Part time, unlimited employment contract, duty station: Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Oversight of AfI’s full business operations, finance/controlling, marketing/communications
  • Business operations: manage all administrative tasks around the business teams to facilitate smooth day-to-day activities and thus enable long-term business growth, such as the preparation of presentations, quality assurance of deliverables and preparation of meetings
  • Finance: Coordinate with external accounting provider regarding bookkeeping, processing of creditor invoices, issuing debtor invoices, and coordinate with external auditor
  • Controlling: Manage the business controlling per business pillar and aggregated figures based on business plan, monitoring of budget against actual figures
  • Marketing/communications: Enhance and employ AfI’s marketing and communications strategy, produce and upload business updates (social media and website) to ensure AfI’s visibility, cooperating with external service provider for technical website administration, facilitate usage of marketing and corporate design across business pillars, prepare templates and stay tuned on the latest trends and best practices around sustainability, SDGs and ESG
• Support to the CEO in diverse management matters
  • Management reporting: Preparation of management presentations for the advisory council and shareholders of business figures and strategies for bi-annual meetings and on an ad-hoc basis
  • HR: Support for AfI’s growing team in talent acquisition and contribute to team spirit through organization of team events (e.g. monthly gatherings, annual Corporate Citizen Day), organize capacity building measures
  • Legal: Contract management with external service providers, coordinate with AfI internal Legal Counsel for general legal matters and with external lawyers regarding German jurisdiction

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Advanced degree in business administration, finance or similar
• 2+ years´ practical experience in business administration, operations, finance or consulting
• Hands-on personality and strong sense of responsibility and ownership
• Distinct eye for detail and high affinity for numbers
• Effective task and time management
• Advanced user in Microsoft Office applications (in particular, MS Excel and PowerPoint)
• Interpersonal skills and high team player attitude
• Enthusiasm for impact and sustainable finance
• Proficiency in German and English is required as well as excellent communication, presentation and writing skills

Agents for Impact offers you

• The opportunity to become an integral part of a growing, entrepreneurial organization in the field of impact investing;
• Competitive salary, including a variable incentive arrangement;
• A dynamic, multi-cultural and collegial working environment.

As a social business, we support a work environment of diversity based on justice, respect and appreciation. We are therefore happy to receive any application regardless of ethical, social and national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status and political attitude.

Application procedure 

Are you interested? We are looking forward to receiving your application (CV and cover letter) to the attention of Juliane Boeselager (juliane.boeselager_at_agentsforimpact.com) and Yannick Rust (yannick.rust_at_agentsforimpact.com).

Agents for Impact zu sein bedeutet für uns mehr als ein Job. Als langjährig erfahrene Experten, die aus Überzeugung und mit Leidenschaft handeln, sehen wir im Impact Investing eine optimale Lösung für die Probleme unserer Zeit. Wir bauen Brücken zwischen Investoren und der Welt des Impact Investings. Unser Ziel ist die Schaffung von Strukturen, die Investments in Nachhaltigkeit ermöglichen (Risk), Wirkung messbar und vergleichbar machen (Rating) und finanzielle Inklusion für Investoren strukturell und rechtlich investierbar machen (Research). Unser Ziel ist es, Wirkung zu schaffen, die fair, nachhaltig und verantwortungsbewusst ist.

Über den Job

Als Regional Director India and South East Asia sind Sie für den gesamten Prozess von Fremdkapitalinvestitionen in Finanzinstitute in der Region verantwortlich.

Details: Vollzeit, Standort: Indien

Qualifikationen und Kompetenzen:

• Hochschulabschluss in Finance, Bankwesen, Betriebswirtschaft oder Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Zusatzqualifikationen wie CFA, CAIA oder FRM wünschenswert.
• Mindestens 10 Jahre einschlägige Berufserfahrung im Finanzdienstleistungssektor mit Fokus Fremdkapitalinvestitionen in Indien und / oder in Südostasien
• Erfahrung in den Bereichen Financial Due Diligence und Jahresabschlussanalyse, einschließlich Kredit- und Finanzrisikomanagement, insbesondere bei Impact Investments.
• Erfahrung in der Verhandlung und Strukturierung von Fremdkapitalinvestitionen.
• Englischkenntnisse, ausgezeichnete Kommunikations- und Präsentationsfähigkeiten, Kenntnisse einer Landessprache sind von Vorteil
• Die Position erfordert auch Reiseeinsätze in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern

Agents for Impact bietet Ihnen

• die Möglichkeit, innerhalb einer wachsenden, unternehmerischen Organisation im Bereich Impact Investing zu arbeiten;
• kompetitives Gehalt, einschließlich einer variablen Vergütung;
• Ein dynamisches, multikulturelles und kollegiales Arbeitsumfeld.

Als sozialorientiertes Unternehmen unterstützen wir ein Arbeitsumfeld der Vielfalt, das auf Gerechtigkeit, Respekt und Wertschätzung beruht. Wir freuen uns daher über jede Bewerbung unabhängig von ethischer, sozialer und nationaler Herkunft, Geschlecht, Religion, Alter, Behinderung, sexueller Orientierung, Familienstand und politischer Einstellung.

Bewerbungsverfahren

Sie haben Interesse? Dann senden Sie uns bitte Ihre Bewerbung vor dem 1.März 2020 an Herrn Dr. Andrij Fetsun, Managing Director von AfI unter andrij.fetsun_at_agentsforimpact.com oder Andrii Tiurenkov, Director Debt Investments unter andrii.tiurenkov_at_agentsforimpact.com. Weitere Informationen zur Position können Sie auch direkt bei Herrn Dr. Fetsun oder Herrn Tiurenkov erfragen.