Consultant - Indonesia

CrossBoundary • Full-time • Jakarta • 1m ago

Consultant - Indonesia
CrossBoundary Advisory

About the Firm
Founded in 2011, CrossBoundary is a mission-driven investment firm committed to unlocking the power of capital for sustainable growth and strong returns in underserved markets. CrossBoundary provides transaction and investment advisory services, having developed a specialized expertise in unleashing investment across all sectors in these markets. Our advisory clients include governments, development finance institutions, private equity firms, Fortune 100 companies, and research institutions. Learn more at www.crossboundary.com

Job Description
CrossBoundary is recruiting a consultant to lead transaction teams focused on unlocking private capital in Indonesia. We are seeking candidates with 10-15+ years of experience living and working in-market, with strong contacts across the region’s power and infrastructure sector, and a thorough understanding of the investment landscape.

CrossBoundary is an investment firm. As a Consultant, you will lead a transaction advisory team and oversee mandate execution in pipeline building, investment facilitation, commercial due diligence, and market studies. Consultants also lead country-level business development and grow the business activities of CrossBoundary in the region, originating transactions and projects.

Who We Are
The CrossBoundary team is a unique group made up of people who are genuinely excited by the opportunity to make a difference in some of the most challenging yet exciting markets in the world. Team members come from diverse backgrounds but share several qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action.

Primary Responsibilities

Lead business development across multiple channels, including private commercial opportunities and government- / donor-sponsored opportunities
Provide continuous client coverage of private capital investors, development finance institutions (DFIs), corporates ranging from SMEs to MNCs, and other relevant organizations to proactively identify advisory opportunities
Manage relationships with key CrossBoundary clients; provide strategic into program design and oversee mandate execution and reporting
Investment target identification and screening
- Use conventional and unconventional channels to identify and rigorously assess investment opportunities
- For targets that are not yet investment-ready, be able to concisely map out paths to investability and resources required to achieve investability
- Be able to credibly articulate investment opportunities’ social and environmental impact narratives
Investor identification and relationship building
- Understand investor mandates, criteria, preferences, and existing portfolios
- Understand investor appetite to work with DFIs or other development-oriented actors
- Manage investor relationships
Detailed commercial due diligence/vendor due diligence
- Directly conduct or facilitate investor (‘buy-side) commercial due diligence
- Compile and curate a comprehensive virtual data room
Robust, multi-faceted corporate and project finance models, including valuations, of private companies using rigorous, defensible methodologies
Draft investment memoranda and teasers, author and update sophisticated financial models
Recommendations on optimal transaction structures based upon near-, medium- and long-term company strategic objectives and capitalization parameters, available instruments, and investor preferences
- Draft detailed illustrative term sheets for debt and equity deals
Market assessment and ongoing market analysis
- Conduct macroeconomic and geopolitical market assessments
- Provide sector analysis of priority areas for investment

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred, ideally in Business Administration, Finance or other relevant advanced degree
10+ years of experience at one of the following:
- the project finance team of top-tier investment or commercial bank or DFI or specialist advisor with proven success; or
- an asset manager investing in energy or infrastructure; or
- a clean energy project developer with a sizable project portfolio
Experience sourcing, advising on, and closing transactions in emerging markets in the energy transition sector or broader infrastructure sectors
Demonstrated ability to project manage complex transactions, strategic advisory engagements, and team members
The following experiences will be regarded favourably:
- Experience taking a power or infrastructure project from origination to financial close in emerging or frontier markets
- Experience in clean power and energy transition strategic advisory engagements with public and private sector stakeholders (e.g. roadmaps, stakeholder engagements, and capital maps)

Think you have what it takes but not sure you check every box? Research shows that while men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women often only apply when they meet every requirement. If you're passionate about what we're building, we want to hear from you!

Locations
The chosen candidate will join our team in Indonesia.

Equal Opportunity Employer
CrossBoundary is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to our recruiting@crossboundary.com