Job Title: Lead, Private Capital Market
Company: VFD Microfinance Bank
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Not Specified
VFD Microfinance Bank is a digital financial services provider focused on delivering technology-driven banking solutions. The organisation is on a rapid growth trajectory and seeks ambitious and talented professionals who can contribute to its expanding operations through innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
Job Summary
VFD Microfinance Bank is recruiting a qualified and experienced professional for the position of Lead, Private Capital Market in Lagos. The successful candidate will drive the growth of the organisation’s private capital market operations, develop investment opportunities, build strategic partnerships, and facilitate access to private capital and liquidity solutions for businesses and investors.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop strategies to expand the organisation’s private capital market operations.
- Identify and engage private companies, institutional investors, venture capital firms, and private equity players.
- Build a practice focused on private investing, capital access, and liquidity solutions.
- Establish partnerships with investment firms, financial advisors, legal advisors, and industry associations.
- Identify opportunities for secondary trading and liquidity provision in private markets.
- Contribute to the development of products and services that improve access to private capital.
- Provide private capital market opportunities to businesses and investors.
- Coordinate initiatives with legal, compliance, risk, and regulatory teams.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Relevant professional qualification in finance, capital markets, or investment banking.
- At least seven years of experience in debt capital markets, treasury, investment banking, fixed income markets, or corporate finance.
- Good understanding of commercial paper, short-term debt instruments, credit analysis, and issuance procedures.
- Demonstrated track record of building commercial transaction relationships.
Required Skills and Competencies
- Strong financial analysis and evaluation skills.
- Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to identify and develop private capital market opportunities.
- Strong commercial awareness and relationship-building skills.
- Understanding of private investment structures and capital market operations.
Work Structure and Compensation
VFD Microfinance Bank offers opportunities for career development and advancement across the organisation. Employees also benefit from exposure to cross-sector and cross-border business activities within VFD’s ecosystem, alongside a work culture that promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaboration.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online through the application link below:
Application Closing Date: Not Specified.