Roles and Responsibilities

1. Shared Responsibilities (Financial Analysis & Modeling)

• Study Preparation: Prepare the five approved studies on a rotational basis as assigned by the Investment Manager: Technical Study, Market Study, Financial Model Study, Investment Mechanism Study, and the Comprehensive Project File.

• Financial Modeling: Build financial models on the approved standard template, ensuring strict separation of assumption tabs without hardcoding any numbers within formulas.

• Decision Metrics Calculation: Calculate decision metrics: Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV), Payback Period, Multiple on Invested Capital (MOIC), and Break-Even Point.

• Scenario Analysis: Prepare the three mandatory scenarios (Optimistic / Expected / Pessimistic), conduct sensitivity analysis, and perform stress testing.

• Assumptions Log: Document the assumptions log: every material assumption, its source, confidence level, and the impact of its change.

• Project Evaluation: Complete the approved project evaluation form (50 points across seven axes and 33 sub-evaluation points) for each project, detailing the analysis result for each point.

• AI Integration: Utilize approved AI tools for structuring, calculating, testing, and drafting, within the parameters of human verification and source tracking.

• Risk Management: Prepare the risk matrix: Probability, Impact, Mitigation Measure, Responsible Party, and Residual Risks.

• Confidentiality & Data Security: Strictly adhere to project data confidentiality, ensuring no sensitive data is inputted into tools unapproved by the IT department.

2. Portfolio Management & IC Secretariat Responsibilities

• Portfolio Management: Manage and periodically update investment files for existing portfolio companies.

• Performance Reporting: Prepare quarterly performance reports for each company: actual performance versus approved assumptions, variance analysis, and classification.

• Model Updates: Update financial models with actual figures and recalculate expected return metrics.

• IC Meeting Preparation: Prepare the Investment Committee agenda and distribute packages to members five working days prior to the meeting, recording receipt dates.

• Automated Documentation: Operate the automated documentation system for IC meetings (recording, transcription, draft minutes generation), with human review prior to Chairman approval.

• Decision Tracking: Maintain the IC decision log, tracking the implementation of each decision until closure, and presenting an execution status report at every meeting.

• Compliance & Conflict of Interest: Collect conflict of interest declarations from members prior to each deal and maintain them in the deal file.

• Archiving: Archive versions of models and studies with sequential numbering in the deal folder on the "Growfast" platform.

Requirements and Qualifications

1. Mandatory Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent.

• 2 to 4 years of practical experience in financial analysis, feasibility studies, consulting, or corporate finance.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and building financial models from scratch.

• Practical understanding of IRR, NPV, Payback, and MOIC metrics, with the ability to explain what they signify, not just calculate them.

• Fluency in written and editorial Arabic, with good English reading skills for sectoral and financial references.

• Proven ability to write analytical reports (practically tested during the recruitment process).

2. Preferred Requirements

• Prior experience in an investment fund, business accelerator, investment bank, or consulting firm environment (preferred, but not mandatory given market conditions).

• Practical experience using AI tools in analysis, modeling, and reporting.

• Knowledge of target sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Technology, Smart Management.

• Familiarity with project management systems and digital dashboards.

Behavioral Competencies to Demonstrate

• Initiative: Proactive initiative to solve problems and improve the work environment and workflows.

• Accuracy & Documentation Discipline: Never submits a number without a source, nor an assumption without clear justification.

• Analytical Neutrality: Presents what the data demonstrates rather than what is expected, documenting points opposing recommendations as thoroughly as those supporting them.

• Time Management Under Pressure: Ability to manage multiple files with overlapping deadlines without compromising quality.

• Accountability & Ownership: Delivers results without making excuses regardless of circumstances.

• Confidentiality & Professional Integrity: Handles project and third-party data with absolute commitment to confidentiality.

• Learnability: Quickly grasps new sectors and builds actionable knowledge bases for practical application.