Corporate & Strategic Finance, Senior Associate

Your Role

The Corporate & Strategic Finance Senior Associate role involves supporting the development and execution of KOKO’s business strategy through helping to achieve KOKO’s capital raising goals across a broad range of transactions by  delivering analyses to drive business performance.

What You Will Do

• Develop and manage key financial models for equity, debt and climate finance transactions, to support growth in existing and new markets 
• Contribute to KOKO’s fundraising efforts driving KOKO’s due diligence efforts
• Oversee investor reporting and compliance, developing outputs for KOKO’s Board and other external stakeholders
• Provide analytical and strategic  support to teams that are critical to KOKO’s success including Climate, Product, Technology & Operations
• Unlock new opportunities for the business through raising concessionary financing, working closely with the Strategy & Partnerships team
• Support the CEO and CFO with financial assessments and analyses to assess risks and opportunities facing the business, including in communications with KOKO’s Board of Directors, investors and other key external stakeholders 
• Promote financial literacy across the business, advocating for knowledge-sharing and supporting the professional growth of the finance team

What You Will Bring to KOKO

• Strong desire to solve the world’s climate emergency
• Minimum 3 years in a high performance, data centric environment (Consulting, Banking, Investments, Corporate Finance, Technology)
• Evidence of management experience (can be either people or process management)
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build strong relationships
• Expertise with financial modeling and data analysis
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
• University degree required in a quantitative field preferred 
• Further Professional Qualifications desirable (e.g. CFA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment and adapting to global business dynamics within an international organisation

What You Will Get from this role

• Ability to positively impact millions of people through providing access to clean cooking fuel and reducing the amount of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere
• A chance to be part of a team at the heart of all the innovative and first of its kind
• Climate Financing initiatives and deals
• Regular exposure and engagement with KOKO’s senior leadership
• Be part of a dynamic and high performance culture with lots of opportunity to grow and develop
• Flexible ways of working with a good work/life balance