Director, Financial Inclusion

Director, Financial Inclusion

About Palladium:

Palladium is a
global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the
lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health,
water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and
transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges;
and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a
workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions,
races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium's
capital advisory team is a leading impact investment bank creating solutions
and mobilizing capital to address the world's most pressing challenges.
The team combines strengths at the intersection of impact investing,
international development and strategy consultancy. The capital advisory team
is comprised of 20 corporate finance and impact investing professionals, based broadly
in London and New York City, tackling global and local problems that require
creative, hands-on and people-focused approaches to mobilizing capital and
unlocking positive impact. There is increasing urgency to direct financial and
human capital towards social inclusion and justice and environmental
regeneration, and we are looking for resourceful, purpose-driven people to join
our flat and rapidly growing team. As an organization with a great variety
of clients, we believe in equal opportunities and value diversity in our team.

We are working
with mission-driven companies from across the world, with the majority of our
clients based in or focused on emerging markets, and in a wide array of sectors
of the impact economy. Within Palladium, the Capital Advisory team focuses on
three broad sets of services:

Location:

The position is
based in Palladium's New York City office.

You and Your Career:

If you are a
problem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have experience in in
investment banking, consulting, advisory, or a similar field, we are interested
in hearing from you.

We are a
learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. We
pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a
fulfilling career!

Reporting Lines:

This position
will report to Managing Director in our capital advisory services team based in
New York.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Financial Inclusion has
long been a core pilar of our investment banking business, including in the
areas of microfinance, FinTech's and alternative lenders. We are now looking
for a professional with deep experience in the sector, to drive the further
growth in this area, to include capital raising, M&A and consulting
services.

The Director will
work closely together with the Managing Director in managing the business. In
addition, the role will interface with the wider capital advisory team and
other client-facing teams within the broader Palladium business, as well as
with the company's key support functions, such as Finance, HR and IT

Business
development

• Develop the origination strategy for the Financial Inclusion sector
  
• Establish and maintain relationships in the industry
  
• Oversee the preparation of Marketing material, proposals/pitch documents
  
• Lead preparation of proposals
  
• Mandate
  execution and project management
  
• Primary responsibility for client relationships and service delivery
  

Lead project management

• Oversee the preparation of client deliverables
  
• Provide oversight to project managers through project execution
  

Practicing building

• Contribute to the knowledge base of the team and improvement of internal processes and tools
  
• Support the raising of our profile through written thought pieces and public speaking
  
• Supporting guiding and training more junior colleagues
  

Key Competencies Required:

• Prior experience in financial inclusion and in a transaction environment, leading on transactions and client relationships
  
• Understanding of a sell-side advisory environment, including a general understanding of investment processes
  
• Prior experience in a regulated business and direct involvement with regulatory reporting
  

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Views impact investing as a means to shift the paradigm and transform the world of finance to work better for the world
  
• Always looks for root causes of problems and is able to see them in their broader context
  
• Can come up with creative solutions to complex issues and see them through their implementation
  
• Is willing to learn and is someone who we can learn from
  
• Has a strong work ethic
  
• Is able to balance multiple demands with keen attention to detail and light supervision
  
• Displays strong initiative and ability to work independently
  
• Is able to deliver consistently high levels of accuracy, efficiency and follow-through
  
• Has the ability to exercise independent judgment and proactively ask questions as needed
  

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to
embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome
applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to
drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome
and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job
applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their
background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to)
socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or
Indigenous status.

Should you
require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you
are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our
team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by
Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from
harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into
contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.
All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process
including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.