Private Equity Transactor needed at Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• To identify attractive investment opportunities in private companies with a view to selling them in five to seven years to maximise the profit for the bank
• Maintain strong relationships with the management team co-investors and financiers
• Ensure governance and incentive structures are appropriate
• Nurture potential exit opportunities
• Optimise balance sheet
• Ensure appropriate capital structures for all strategies
• Ensure succession planning is in place
• Evaluate market for potential acquisitions and disposals
• Provide strategic insight and align strategy with capital structure
• Seek and evaluate opportunities for disposals and growth opportunities
• Devise a commercial offer that is feasible for all parties
• Develop an investment thesis
• Obtain preliminary approval for the proposed offer from Private Equity team
• Prime the business for exit
• Identify prospective buyers and exit mechanisms
• Follow through on executing successful exit
• Devise a programme of work to ensure all significant risks are identified and quantified through
• Appoint appropriate third party advisors as necessary
• Coordinate the process according to tight deadlines and budgets
• Ensure that direct commercial due diligence is completed by the team
• Manage the funding process including equity and debt
• Analyse all due diligence information and synthesise into a cohesive investment report
• Submit investment report to the team and RMB
• Investment Committee for approval
• Negotiate a set of legal agreements that give effect to the finally approved offer
• Ensure that debt and equity funding has been raised
• Ensure management deal is approved
• Ensure all regulatory approval has been obtained
• Ensure there are legal agreements in place with all parties and executed
• Ensure all internal sign offs are obtained
• Establish and maintain internal and external networks for deal leads
• Scan the market for possible opportunities
• Devise a financial model to establish valuation ranges and returns
• Benchmark against other market valuations