Investment Officer

**Investment Officer - FIG**

**Job #**:

- req34670

**Organization**:

- IFC

**Sector**:

- Investment

**Grade**:

- GF

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Mumbai,India

**Required Language(s)**:

- English

**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 11/7/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

Build a career with impact. Working at the World Bank Group (WBG) provides a unique opportunity to help countries solve their greatest development challenges. As one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, the WBG is a unique partnership of five global institutions dedicated to ending poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.

The Financial Institution Group (FIG) is one of IFC’s key departments responsible for a significant portion of IFC’s business volume, profitability and development reach, approximately 40%. FIG engages in a wide range of sub-sectors including Microfinance, SME, Gender, Climate, Insurance, Capital Markets, Housing, Distressed Assets, and other areas, with both investment and advisory services delivered globally to IFC’s clients through IFC’s global network. FIG has the following main objectives 1) financing climate risk mitigation and adaptation 2) advancing financial inclusion 3) promoting gender equality 4) servicing the real economy and 5) mobilizing third-party resources.

FIG South Asia Regional Industry Team is seeking an Investment Officer to be based in Mumbai, to help grow and develop investment business and support investment portfolio in India and across the region. The pipeline of new investment opportunities includes bilateral and syndicated debt, publicly and privately issued bonds, fresh equity investments, Tier-2 capital, and structured finance products.

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Contribute to drafting strategies for sectors, countries, or regions for business development; and develop and execute strategies for more complex client engagements with the objective of building a robust investment or advisory pipeline.
- Develop long-term relationships and engagement plans with key local clients to identify and act on opportunities for repeat business.
- Draw comparisons with other industry projects across the region to determine fit with current portfolio and conduct quality control to ensure accuracy and adequacy of analytical work completed by junior staff.
- Assess and articulate the development impact and IFC additionality of moderately complex transactions at the sector or subsector level. Engage with IFC economics team to build IFC development impact story.
- Gather market intelligence to stay informed of emerging trends in sectors and the country that could have broad impact on a country or subsector portfolio.
- Support structuring of moderately complex investment or advisory transactions incorporating lessons of project evaluations, insights from other Investment Officers, other project structuring and portfolio management experience. Ensure timely processing, thorough due diligence, and client satisfaction.
- Thoroughly review work provided by clients and prepared by team members to ensure solid structure and consistency of legal documents with agreed-upon terms.
- Maintain relationships with clients and other stakeholders (government, development partners, WBG).
- Negotiate moderately complex waivers, amendments, and rescheduling, and help prepare official restructuring memos for approval.
- Participate in the design of approaches and interventions to create upstream markets and provide substantive input to key components of Country Private Sector Diagnostics.
- Perform complex, credit risk rating assessments, covenant compliance reviews, loan loss reserves, valuations for country, region, or sector portfolio and development impact assessment. Review the quality of portfolio review work performed by more junior staff.
- Use networks to keep projects moving and collaborate with key internal stakeholders to obtain buy-in on deals and negotiate risk mitigation strategies.

**Selection Criteria**
- Master’s degree in finance, economics, business, accounting or related fields.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, development finance, consulting, or senior operating roles within the sector.
- Identify and enable market-creation opportunities across multiple countries through a long-term perspective, open-mindedness, persistence, innovation, and appropriate de-risking instruments; demonstrate clear understanding of IFC/WBG roles and value in nascent markets.
- Cultivate and sustain long-term client relationships by evidencing deep know