<strong>We’re looking for an Investment Analyst who falls in with the crème of the crop. You’ll need extensive project finance experience, must be an expert builder of financial models, and MUST be passionate about sustainable investment. </strong><br><br>Our clients, high-stakes players in the impact investing sector and blended finance fund management, is on the search for <strong>Investment Analysts</strong> to join their projects in Namibia. A keen interest in impactful environmental and social development, alongside financial returns, is essential.<br><br>If you have 2-5 years of post-articles experience in the financial sector and are looking to get into the Namibian green hydrogen and solar markets, this role might be for you.<br><br><strong>Apply now and seize your opportunity to join a high-calibre team of professionals in the emerging Namibia energy market. </strong><br><br><em>Interested in finding out more about AltGen and want to receive updates on new industry-relevant job roles? Then follow our </em><a href="https://bit.ly/AltGenLi"><strong><em>LinkedIn page</em></strong></a><em> and subscribe to our </em><a href="http://eepurl.com/hENwn5"><strong><em>mailer</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong><br><br><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><ul><li>Assist transactors throughout all stages of deal activities and process life cycles</li><li>Establish and maintain the documentation management system, including all relevant due diligence and project content</li><li>Manage compliance, governance, and internal approval processes</li><li>Serve as the knowledge manager for the transaction database</li><li>Develop project finance models and conduct appropriate analysis as needed</li><li>Conduct financial analysis of potential financing structures</li><li>Prepare investment proposals for the Investment Committee</li><li>Coordinate due diligence workstreams</li><li>Gather input for reports for the Board and Investors</li><li>Research the power/energy market across the region</li></ul>

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Investment Analyst – Green Hydrogen & Solar PV – Namibia

<p>We are looking for a highly analytical, hard-working and self-directed individual who is excited by the opportunity to work closely with the firm’s Investment Team to evaluate, structure and execute transactions. The Senior Analyst, Investment Team is a results-oriented person, passionate about the type of work Generate is doing, and looking to apply their experience to help scale a growing business and drive critical internal initiatives.</p><p><strong>What you may do at Generate Capital as a Senior Analyst on the Investment Team<em>:</em></strong></p><ul><li>Conduct due diligence on portfolios of infrastructure assets and resource efficiency companies utilizing financial statements, original and third-party research, and market data</li><li>Create and adapt sophisticated financial models for pricing, forecasting, and operating purposes</li><li>Analyze financial information relating to specific investments, g. operating results, profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements to determine how a portfolio and/or organization is positioned to deliver for investors</li><li>Support the preparation of investment memoranda and recommendations to Generate’s investment committee</li><li>Prepare formal presentations, reports, and related project assignments, assembling data from multiple sources</li><li>Support the due diligence and execution of tax equity, debt, and other financing</li><li>Support business development and ongoing relationship management with partners</li><li>Maintain documentation and contribute to reporting on Generate’s key performance indicators</li><li>Stay up to date on market developments and new technologies</li></ul><p><strong>Candidate qualifications &amp; core characteristics:</strong></p><ul><li>A demonstrated passion for, or commitment to, our mission</li><li>1-2 years of relevant experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity investing, or similarly highly analytical and demanding roles with a focus on rigorous financial modeling</li><li>Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including empathy, intuition, and listening as well as strong writing, editing, and basic design skills</li><li>Experience performing due diligence, financial analysis, and executing transactions, ideally in resource efficiency investments</li><li>Experience synthesizing and clearly communicating findings of analyses in written memos and presentations to internal and external audiences</li><li>Proven ability to balance multiple assignments while executing high quality, timely, and accurate<strong> </strong>work product</li><li>Ability to operate autonomously and meet high expectations with minimal guidance</li><li>Demonstrated ability to work well in a dynamic and fast-paced, rapidly changing environment</li><li>High level of self-awareness and humility, with excitement about confronting ambiguous situations and new challenges</li><li>Intellectual agility, curiosity, and creativity; problem-solving is your default mode</li></ul><p>Generate’s compensation packages are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Salary decisions take into account a wide variety of factors including, but not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications<span style="color:#000000;">, geographic location, a</span>nd other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is $105,000 - $140,000. In addition, the compensation package may include a discretionary bonus and other benefits, including health care benefits, retirement benefits, benefits permitting paid days off (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid time off or vacation benefits), and other benefits that must be reported for federal tax purposes. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of this range. </p><p>Generate Capital is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or handicap, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.</p>

Pioneering sustainable infrastructure for a greener future - powering energy, mobility, water, waste, and agriculture solutions.

Senior Analyst, Investment - North America

<p style="">Crusoe Energy is on a mission to unlock value in stranded energy resources through the power of computation.</p><p style="">Take a look at what we do! - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt8k71Quqw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt8k71Quqw</a> </p><p style="">We aim to align the long term interests of the climate with the future of global computing infrastructure. As data centers consume an exponentially growing power footprint to deliver technology to all connected devices, we are inspired by making sure that the energy meeting that demand is sourced in an environmentally responsible fashion. Crusoe co-locates mobile data centers with stranded energy resources, like flare gas and underloaded renewables, to deliver low-cost, carbon-negative distributed computing solutions. Crusoe Cloud is a managed cloud services platform powered by stranded energy that enables climate-friendly innovation in computationally intensive fields including artificial intelligence, graphics rendering and computational biology.<br></p><p style=""></p><p style=""><strong>About the Role:</strong></p><p style="">The Senior Analyst reports to the Director of Finance and Senior Manager, Cloud Finance, to support the Finance team in a variety of corporate finance initiatives to solve critical finance, strategy, and operations related problems across the organization. The role offers a unique ability to work across teams to see how a fast-growing business operates and is a great platform to learn how to operationalize change at scale. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, has a strong attention to detail, and can multi-task in a results-oriented environment.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">Crusoe is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to support the growing Crusoe Cloud organizational needs. This position is a highly visible role that interacts regularly with executive management. You must be comfortable working under deadlines and cross-collaborating. The candidate will be involved in various initiatives centered around short and long term financial planning, capital budgeting, and creating materials to present key operational and financial metrics to the Leadership Team and Board of Directors. Depending on the individual’s abilities and organizational needs, you will also be involved with capital raises, corporate strategy, and investor relations.</p><p style=""></p><p style=""><strong>A Day in the Life:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">Support Finance team in day-to-day tasks, including implementing various financial analysis, forecast and budget processes, and preparing relevant deliverables</p></li><li><p style="">Responsible for building and maintaining Cloud financial models, including but not limited to, multi-year forecast and budget models, project models, and unit economic models</p></li><li><p style="">Build scalable assets to implement and support financial processes for tracking, monitoring, and forecasting cloud revenues, usages, expenses, sources / uses of cash, and return on investments </p></li><li><p style="">Develop and monitor cloud budget and profitability against core models and metrics focused on both margins and return on investment analysis  </p></li><li><p style="">Analyze historical data and current trends at corporate &amp; project levels to evaluate financial &amp; operational performance, translating data into impactful insights</p></li><li><p style="">Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Digital Infrastructure and Cloud operations teams to ensure Finance model assumptions reflect latest </p></li><li><p style="">Prepare materials to satisfy lender draw packages, covenants &amp; investor reporting requirements</p></li><li><p style="">Assist the Finance team with workflows required to close financing transactions</p></li><li><p style="">Support Finance team with creation and maintenance of financial models, including but not limited to cash forecasts, corporate planning models, M&amp;A models Prepare management, investor, and board presentation materials</p></li><li><p style="">Support finance efforts to add value to business partners across the organization, including data analysis, tracking, and reporting on operating metrics &amp; KPIs Perform ad-hoc analysis and reporting as needed</p></li></ul><p style=""></p><p style=""><strong>You Will Thrive In This Role If:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">4+ years of related experience; investment banking or Strategic Finance /  FP&amp;A experience in a fast-growth startup strongly preferred</p></li><li><p style="">Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar field</p></li><li><p style="">Outstanding financial modeling skills in Excel with demonstrable experience managing complex business models</p></li><li><p style="">Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint</p></li><li><p style="">Strong understanding of financial planning and accounting concepts</p></li><li><p style="">Experience working with data sets, business intelligence softwares or other analytic tools preferred</p></li><li><p style="">High attention to detail is a must</p></li><li><p style="">Comfortable working in a fast paced environment with ambiguous and/or iterative fact-sets</p></li><li><p style="">Works under general supervision with relatively little guidance necessary, can take direction well </p></li><li><p style="">Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills</p></li><li><p style="">Motivated self-starter and team player; ability to work collaboratively</p></li><li><p style="">Desire to work in a result-oriented, dynamic fast growth environment</p></li><li><p style="">Embody the Company <a href="https://www.crusoeenergy.com/about">values</a><br></p><p style=""></p></li></ul><p style=""><strong>Benefits:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">Hybrid work schedule</p></li><li><p style="">Industry competitive pay</p></li><li><p style="">Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company</p></li><li><p style="">Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents</p></li><li><p style="">Paid Parental Leave</p></li><li><p style="">Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability</p></li><li><p style="">Teladoc</p></li><li><p style="">Pet-friendly offices</p></li><li><p style="">401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary</p></li><li><p style="">Responsible paid time off</p></li><li><p style="">Cell phone reimbursement</p></li><li><p style="">Tuition reimbursement</p></li><li><p style="">Subscription to the Calm app</p></li><li><p style="">NYDIG - Bitcoin Savings Plan</p></li><li><p style="">Company paid commuter benefit; $100 per month<br></p></li></ul><p style=""></p><p style=""><strong>Compensation Range:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">Compensation will be paid in the range of $115,000-$150,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.</p></li></ul><p style="">Crusoe Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.</p>

Harnessing stranded energy to power compute resources, Crusoe is revolutionizing computation by reducing emissions and increasing efficiency.

Senior Financial Analyst

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div>As a Senior Analyst, you will lead data and analytics functions within your squad by collaborating cross functionally with departments across KOKO on end-to-end data and analytics. You will be expected to take accountability, influence decision making, deal with a high degree of uncertainty and help shape overall business strategy through data driven insights. You will work closely with your squad to identify data needs, build and update existing data pipelines as needed and design dashboards.</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Identify and coordinate data infrastructure improvements with the software team.</li><li>Be a key stakeholder in data developments and data integrity.</li><li>Ensure consistency, accuracy, and overall integrity of business metrics.</li><li>Design, build and update ETL pipelines to ensure efficient design.</li><li>Build models to identify trends, forecast performance, and identify improvements to company strategy, products, and operations.</li><li>Design and run data analyses to guide decision-making and strategy.</li><li>Design and prepare company dashboards and other key stakeholder reporting.</li><li>Enable the success of KOKO Team Members by supporting them in accessing, understanding, and utilizing data.</li><li>Develop and maintain business intelligence documentation, training materials, best practices, and overall data toolkit.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring</h3><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree, ideally in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or Economics (Master's degree a plus)</li><li>Experience in data analysis, consulting, finance, or other quantitatively rigorous role (ideally 3-5+ years)</li><li>The ability to balance priorities, clarify stakeholder requirements, pay keen attention to detail, and generally keep deliverables on schedule.</li><li>Proficiency with Domo, Tableau, Looker or other data visualization package; SQL, R, Excel, and statistical methods (Python an added plus); ETL experience</li><li>Ability to communicate technical details clearly and concisely to management &amp; external stakeholders.</li><li>A curious mind and a passion for problem-solving, data, and analytics</li><li>Comfort in a fast-paced, growth-stage start-up environment</li></ul><h3></h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><li>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

"Revolutionizing the way we communicate and connect with our loved ones through immersive virtual experiences."

Senior Analyst

<p style="">Crusoe Energy is on a mission to unlock value in stranded energy resources through the power of computation.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">Take a look at what we do! - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt8k71Quqw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt8k71Quqw</a> </p><p style=""></p><p style="">We aim to align the long term interests of the climate with the future of global computing infrastructure. As data centers consume an exponentially growing power footprint to deliver technology to all connected devices, we are inspired by making sure that the energy meeting that demand is sourced in an environmentally responsible fashion. Crusoe co-locates mobile data centers with stranded energy resources, like flare gas and underloaded renewables, to deliver low-cost, carbon-negative distributed computing solutions. Crusoe Cloud is a managed cloud services platform powered by stranded energy that enables climate-friendly innovation in computationally intensive fields including artificial intelligence, graphics rendering and computational biology.<br><br><strong>About This Role:</strong></p><p style="">Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Manager of Finance supports the CFO organization in a variety of corporate finance initiatives to solve critical finance, strategy, and operations-related problems across the organization. The role offers a unique ability to work across teams to see how a fast-growing business operates and is a great platform to learn how to operationalize change at scale. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, has a strong attention to detail, and can multi-task in a results-oriented environment. This is a highly visible role that interacts regularly with executive management. </p><p style="">The Manager, Finance will lead the development and implementation of key financial processes, including the annual budget, short and long-term financial forecasts, and the associated analysis &amp; reporting against actual results. Depending on the organizational needs and the individual’s abilities, the role will also be involved with capital raises, corporate strategy, and investor relations. This is a hands-on-role and the Manager is expected to directly contribute and lead by example. The candidate must be comfortable working under deadlines, multi-tasking, and cross-collaborating. <br><br> <strong>A Day In The Life:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">Play a key role in developing a best-in-class finance function across Crusoe - supporting planning, budgeting &amp; strategy</p></li><li><p style="">Drive the development and implementation of a consistent, cross-departmental monthly forecast process</p></li><li><p style="">Drive the annual Budget process under the guidance of the Director of Finance and CFO, and with the support of the Senior Manager, Cloud Finance </p></li><li><p style="">Work closely with key business partners to drive thoughtful analysis</p></li><li><p style="">Interface with management and key business partners to analyze forecast variances, identify trends, and provide recommendations to drive forecast execution and accuracy</p></li><li><p style="">Help drive change through process and reporting improvements to provide more transparency and visibility into current and future financial results.</p></li><li><p style="">Support the Finance team in creating monthly executive team reports, quarterly board materials, and investor updates, using excel and powerpoint</p></li><li><p style="">Readily identify problems or issues and instinctively look for solutions </p></li><li><p style="">Be a point of contact internally and externally for finance-related matters</p></li><li><p style="">Create materials associated with fundraising activities, including diligence requests </p></li><li><p style="">Mentor and help supervise less experienced team members, explaining ideas and concepts </p></li><li><p style="">Apply financial knowledge and skills to perform a variety of ad-hoc analysis and special projects, as needed</p></li></ul><p style=""></p><p style=""><strong>You Will Thrive In This Role If:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">7+ years of relevant experience in financial planning &amp; analysis, corporate finance, or investment banking; experience with cloud computing is strongly preferred</p></li><li><p style="">Master’s or Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field  </p></li><li><p style="">Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and precision in financial analysis and reporting.</p></li><li><p style="">High attention to detail is a must</p></li><li><p style="">Working knowledge of accounting principles required including revenue recognition, amortization, and accrual vs. cash accounting; must have a general understanding of financial statements</p></li><li><p style="">Ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple way  </p></li><li><p style="">Experience in preparing executive management  and board level communications.</p></li><li><p style="">Excellent skills in financial modeling and forecasting techniques</p></li><li><p style="">Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; proficiency with data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Alteryx, Tableau) a plus; familiarity with planning software a plus</p></li><li><p style="">Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally</p></li><li><p style="">Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills </p></li><li><p style="">Team player who can work well independently and with limited direction</p></li><li><p style="">Experience with direct reports a plus (no direct reports to start in this role)  </p></li><li><p style="">Self-starter who can multi-task and deliver in a dynamic environment under tight timelines, iterative fact-sets and changing priorities; must be “hands-on"</p></li><li><p style="">Positive attitude</p><p style=""></p></li></ul><p style=""><strong>Benefits:</strong></p><ul style=""><li><p style="">Hybrid work schedule</p></li><li><p style="">Industry competitive pay</p></li><li><p style="">Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company</p></li><li><p style="">Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents</p></li><li><p style="">Employer contributions to HSA accounts </p></li><li><p style="">Paid Parental Leave </p></li><li><p style="">Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability </p></li><li><p style="">Teladoc </p></li><li><p style="">Pet-friendly offices</p></li><li><p style="">401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary</p></li><li><p style="">Generous paid time off and holiday schedule</p></li><li><p style="">Cell phone reimbursement</p></li><li><p style="">Tuition reimbursement</p></li><li><p style="">Subscription to the Calm app</p></li><li><p style="">Company paid commuter benefit; $50 per pay period</p><p style=""></p></li></ul><p style=""><strong>Compensation Range:</strong></p><p style="">Compensation will be paid in the range of $160,000+. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.</p><p style=""></p><p style="">Crusoe Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.</p><p style=""></p>

Manager, Finance

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As a project assistant, you will supporting our Global Manufacturing Expansion Head in the planning and execution of our manufacturing expansion across various geographies.</div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Update project matrix for management review</li><li>Generate Project schedule and plans</li><li>Consolidate capacity data as requested by expansion head for decision matrix</li><li>Keep up to date records of the CAPEX projects and support Financial controller on technical documentation</li><li>Prepare the technical reports for machine, tooling, equipment from RFQ sheets for analysis ( spec, cost, warranty, terms)Help and assist Expansion head in new projects, including Initial product costing, manufacturing cost, investment cost and profit &amp; loss analysis study</li><li>Prepare and present Project justification and get PAC approval each gate review</li><li>Coordinate the project related activities with various groups such as engineering, manufacturing, assembly,powder coating, molding, stamping, quality and stores</li><li>Interface frequently with internal and external stakeholders to analyze and solve problems encountered during the project execution or any stages of the project</li><li>Support internal and external audits including customer audits at factory and Engineering Center</li><li>Ensure overall plan and day to day activities of project management are reported, escalated and conducted per timeline.</li></ul><h3>Requirements</h3><ul><li>Engineering degree, or equivalent qualification</li><li>Minimum of 5 years working experience in Project Management in a manufacturing environment</li><li>Knowledge of Automotive new product development process, quality and documentation is must</li><li>Experience in planning and budgeting process of an engineering and manufacturing organization</li><li>Good communication skills in English, both verbal and written is a must </li><li>Knowledge of product costing will be an advantage</li><li>Able to perform computer skill such as MS-office, MS-project, MS-Access, Google Sheets </li><li>ERP knowledge will be a plus point</li><li>PMP certification will be a plus point</li><li>Must have worked on Automotive or Green field project from scratch to end in execution team/phase at least</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Project Assistant

<strong>Are you a master at building finance-asset models, outshining every other self-proclaimed expert in the field? Does your CV showcase extensive experience in the renewable energy, project finance, or business valuations field? </strong><br><br><strong>If so, we want to hear from you!</strong><br><br>Our client, one of the largest Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in Africa, is seeking an <strong>Asset Financial Modeller</strong> to help expand and transform the African power sector. Your primary goal will be to <strong>prepare, develop, and support financial models for our client’s operating assets, assets under construction, and overall asset modelling adjustments.</strong> This includes balancing sheets, asset performance, changes in construction timelines, and business valuations and returns.<br><br>This role offers the opportunity to join a high-calibre, high-performing team of professionals and to contribute to groundbreaking, transformative energy projects across Africa. <strong>Apply now!</strong><br><br><em>Interested in finding out more about AltGen and want to receive updates on new industry-relevant job roles? Then follow our </em><a href="https://bit.ly/AltGenLi"><strong><em>LinkedIn page</em></strong></a><em> and subscribe to our </em><a href="http://eepurl.com/hENwn5"><strong><em>mailer</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong><br><br><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><ul><li>Develop, revise, and oversee intricate project finance-based asset models for current operational assets and those in progress</li><li>Modify models to account for variables such as actual balance sheet figures, asset performance, alterations in construction schedules, and business valuation</li><li>Collaborate on crafting a comprehensive, company-wide unified model for operational assets, ensuring alignment with established long-term incentive plans</li><li>Guide the transition of project finance investment case models into operational models post-construction</li><li>Provide guidance and instruction to local asset teams on managing their respective models</li><li>Assist in aligning yearly business plan models with extended valuation models for individual assets</li><li>Interface with lenders regarding issues such as disbursement requests, waivers, distributions, and reporting</li><li>Perform evaluations on the current asset portfolio to inform investment decisions</li><li>Contribute insights to Investment Committee and Board Papers</li><li>Assist in conducting the annual corporate valuation process</li><li>Offer specialised analytical assistance, including conducting research on market trends and competitors</li></ul>

Financial Modeller (Asset) – Renewables – London

<strong>When it comes to building finance-asset models, do you run circles around every other self-proclaimed expert in the field? Does your CV boast extensive experience in the</strong> <strong>renewable</strong> <strong>energy, project finance, or business valuations field? </strong><br><br><strong>If yes, we want to hear from you!</strong><br><br>Our client, one of the largest IPPs in Africa, is looking for an <strong>Asset Financial Modeller</strong> whose expertise will assist them in continuing to expand and transform the African power sector.<br><br><strong>Your primary objective </strong>would be to prepare, develop, and support financial models for our client’s operating assets, assets currently under construction, and overall asset modelling adjustments. These include balance sheets, the performance of assets, changes in construction timelines, and business valuations and returns.<br><br><strong>This role presents the opportunity to join a high-calibre, high-performing team of professionals, and to be a part of the groundbreaking, transformative energy projects across Africa. </strong><br><br><strong>Apply now!</strong><br><br><em>Interested in finding out more about AltGen and want to receive updates on new industry-relevant job roles? Then follow our </em><a href="https://bit.ly/AltGenLi"><strong><em>LinkedIn page</em></strong></a><em> and subscribe to our </em><a href="http://eepurl.com/hENwn5"><strong><em>mailer</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong><br><br><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><ul><li>Develop, revise, and oversee intricate project finance-based asset models for current operational assets and those in progress</li><li>Modify models to account for variables such as actual balance sheet figures, asset performance, alterations in construction schedules, and business valuation</li><li>Collaborate on crafting a comprehensive, company-wide unified model for operational assets, ensuring it aligns with established long-term incentive plans</li><li>Guide the transition of project finance investment case models into operational models post-construction</li><li>Provide guidance and instruction to local asset teams on managing their respective models.</li><li>Assist in aligning yearly business plan models with extended valuation models for individual assets</li><li>Interface with lenders regarding issues such as disbursement requests, waivers, distributions, and reporting</li><li>Perform evaluations on the current asset portfolio to inform investment decisions.</li><li>Contribute insights to Investment Committee and Board Papers</li><li>Assist in conducting the annual corporate valuation process</li><li>Offer specialised analytical assistance, including conducting research on market trends and competitors</li></ul>

Asset Financial Modeller – Renewables – Cape Town

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div>We're hiring an experienced Data Quality Engineer to ensure the accuracy and reliability of our data systems. In this role, you will contribute to developing test scripts, enhancing automated testing frameworks, and collaborating closely with development teams. Your expertise in data models, ETL architecture, and automation testing will drive the quality and integrity of our data-driven solutions.</div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Test  and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Test ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Ensure logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Help validate systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, <a href="http://Vue.js">Vue.js</a>, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git</div></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>5-8 years of strong experience in QA/testing or application development</li><li>Strong in Database and ETL testing</li><li>Strong at preparing the test plan and ensure that test plans get reviewed by all stakeholders and strong in peer reviews.</li><li>Strong command of Essential technologies: SQL scripting, PL/SQL.</li><li>ETL Testing from various feeds on server (S3, SQL ,HIVE, Data Bricks, SnowFlake) using different testing strategy to ensure the data quality and data consistency, timeliness</li><li>Having knowledge on large-scale data processing languages like pyspark is a plus.</li><li>Strong command of any Programmatic Language (Python preferred)</li><li>Knowledge of API Testing</li><li>Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, QA methodologies, defect management system, and documentation.</li><li>Experience in automation, automation frameworks and automation delivery preferred.</li><li>Understanding of of PyTest, Unitest, Behave and Mock Test wil be an added advantage</li><li>Good at setting Quality standards in various new testing technologies in the industry.</li><li>Excellent analytical and communication skill is required</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><li>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Data Quality Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:12pt;">Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">We at KOKO are passionate about building products that help make people's lives better. As we expand our services within and outside Kenya, we are looking for a qualified Front-end developer to join our Software Engineering team, to help build and enhance our customer-facing <a href="http://projects.You">projects.You</a> will be responsible for building the front-end applications of our organization. You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual <a href="http://design.You">design.You</a> should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring a great user experience.</span></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages</li><li>Maintain and improve WordPress and similar websites</li><li>Optimize applications for maximum speed</li><li>Design mobile-compatible components</li><li>Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability</li><li>Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers</li><li>Write functional requirement documents and guides</li><li>Create quality mockups and prototypes</li><li>Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting</li><li>Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency</li><li>Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li><br></li><div>We are looking for a highly technical individual contributor with significant experience in building customer-facing websites using WordPress or similar technology. Knowledge about integration with external systems would be important. You should be comfortable collaborating and leading projects in a remote environment, building rapport across the team, and doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.</div><div><br></div><li>Three or more years of experience as a front-end developer.</li><li>Hands-on experience with markup languages</li><li>Experience with JavaScript, CSS, and jQuery</li><li>Familiarity with browser testing and debugging</li><li>In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)</li><li>Good understanding of hosting and deployment.</li><li>Understanding of layout aesthetics</li><li>Knowledge of SEO principles</li><li>Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop, and content management systems</li><li>An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent analytical and multitasking skills</li><li>Understanding of the Linux operating system, networking, and databases.</li><li>BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field</li><div><br></div></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Front-End Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead the development of firmware for KOKO’s IoT based hardware platforms that provide our customers with smart delivery of fuel and other goods through our unique last mile distribution network. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion to new markets. </div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple KOKO's products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider engineering team in delivering best-in-class solutions.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Develop the embedded software that powers our network hardware and the tools that enable us to test, build, diagnose and repair them. </li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics engineers, software engineers, product managers, and others to integrate embedded software into products.</li><li>Support existing devices and manage firmware improvements in our installed networks</li><li>Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in the functionality of our systems</li><li>Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.</li><li>Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Strong, proven experience coding (5+ years) and good design principles in C/C++ for embedded systems</li><li>Solid and demonstrable understanding of Linux and programming for Linux (e.g. Raspberry Pi)</li><li>Experience programming in both RTOS and bare metal environments</li><li>Ability to developing and debug low level protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI) and higher level communication protocols (e.g. BLE, USB)</li><li>Strong troubleshooting skills for investigating reported issues, debugging and fixing field problems</li><li>Knowledge of IoT “edge” device development and strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP, MQTT) and interfaces (TCP/IP, TLS)</li><li>Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines</li><li>A good grasp of electronics - ability to read schematics and data sheets</li><div><br></div><div>Other skills:</div><li>Experience in developing commercial products - proven experience developing for hardware at scale</li><li>Strong analytical skills, working with engineering best practices to get the best results</li><li>Team player, conscientious and with a strong collaborative ethos</li><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a highly technical leader with significant experience in scaling and maintaining complex, mission critical systems, and making key architectural decisions along the way.  Aside from being an expert in your core skills areas, you should be comfortable leading and coaching, building rapport across the team, doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.</div></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of our first data engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.  You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high performance and availability.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets</li><li>Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing</li><li>Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)</li><li>Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement</li><li>Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations</li><li>Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure</li><li>Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices</li><li>Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Data Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of our first data engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.  You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high performance and availability.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets</li><li>Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing</li><li>Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)</li><li>Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement</li><li>Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations</li><li>Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure</li><li>Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices</li><li>Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to provide technical leadership for the mechanical designs for hardware products that make up KOKO’s clean fuel distribution network.</div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple hardware products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider cross functional technology team delivering best-in-class hardware and software solutions.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>As a domain leader in the area of mechanical engineering, oversee the complete life-cycle of our hardware products from design, documentation, test, deployment to continuous monitoring.</li><li>Lead new initiatives and best practices in the field of mechanical design engineering</li><li>Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to understand design requirements and provide strategic input into mechanical designs that meet such requirements</li><li>Researching new technologies and design concepts through self-driven initiatives to innovate our products</li><li>Help define test strategies / support building test rigs for R&amp;D, production and operational needs.</li><li>Serve as a technical authority representing mechanical design and enable confidence in everything we do in this area</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, mentor and guide junior engineers and instill engineering excellence into the team.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>10+ years of hands on experience in design engineering of Mechanical products (i.e. Hardware Products)</li><li>Strong track record developing  and delivering significant hardware products through to production.</li><li>Significant experience in materials, mainly in steel sheet metal &amp; plastics</li><li>Knowledge of mass / batch manufacturing processes for general engineering parts</li><li>Understanding of National &amp; International standards / guidelines for various mechanical products </li><li>Experience prototyping processes for metals &amp; plastics</li><li>Ability to conceptualise &amp; detail ideas using 3D CAD tools (Solidworks or similar) and 2D sketches. </li><li>Well developed skills in designing for testability, reliability, maintainability and cost effectiveness</li><li>Experience in design for global compliance standards (CE, CSA, UL, etc.)</li><li>Experience in working within cross-functional teams (Electronics, Software etc.)</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal.</li><li>Empathy for your colleagues, encouraging team members to think creatively while knowing where to intervene to tackle tough problems and navigate conflicts.</li><div><br></div><div>Nice to haves</div><li>Use of CAE Tools for design analysis (Ansys /others)</li><li>Ingress / environmental protection</li><li>Familiar with Engineering Change Management</li><li>Knowledge of automated dispensing systems design for liquids and solids.</li><li>Knowledge of fuel distribution industry</li></ul><h3>What we offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Medicare for you and your family</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>If you share our passion for technology and our vision for global impact, we strongly encourage you to apply!</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Principal Mechanical Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>The individual will be joining the KOKO Climate team and will be responsible for technical operations, under</div><div>the supervision of the reporting manager(s), covering one or more of the following scopes:</div><div>● Project Development: Conducting initial research, lead development of design documents (PDDs/PoA-DDs/CPA-DDs), validation and registration activities under various carbon offset schemes.</div><div>● Project Monitoring: Conducting monitoring surveys, preparation of monitoring reports, leading verification,  issuance activities and regular reporting to investors.</div><div>● Policy  Market Research: Conducting Secondary Research &amp; Analysis, preparing insightful reports on the findings</div><div>Together with a small team in Nairobi, Kenya, he/she will manage a broad range of activities and provide full support in managing the end-to-end carbon development and issuance cycles. He/She will work independently within the Climate Operations department and operate as the single point of contact for the global New Market Team and other departments.</div><br><br><h3>What will you do </h3><ul><li>Lead Carbon research projects </li><li>Initial Project Design and identification/development of most suitable methodology</li><li>Develop Baseline and Project studies</li><li>Research reports on carbon policy, regulations and markets</li><li>Work on end to end carbon project development. End-to-end management of carbon development and issuance cycles for new and existing projects.</li><li>Successful completion of audit and review stages.</li><li>Supervise implementation of the monitoring plan for new and existing projects.</li><li>Training &amp; guiding the local team for effective implementation.</li><li>Conduct risk assessment for development and issuance cycles.  </li></ul><h3>What will you bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Master’s degree in the field of engineering/environmental studies, geology, or alike.</li><li>5-10 years of total work experience in climate change &amp; sustainability field</li><li>3+ Years of experience in positions of responsibility leading/managing various climate change projects across CDM and Gold Standard carbon mechanisms</li><li>4+ years of technical work experience in independently leading/managing registration and issuance cycles of carbon projects in cooking or community service sector as principal consultant or team leader (VVB)    </li><li>Fundamental understanding of carbon markets and regulatory requirements of the carbon standards, research and survey processes, data collection and interpretation, and statistical- tools and platforms</li><li>5-10 years of experience in designing and independently managing end-to-end development and issuance cycles of distributive/community carbon projects in both CDM and Gold Standard</li><li>Strong Project Management and Team Management skills to deliver results under strict timelines</li><li>Excellent writing skills to prepare intelligible protocols, design documents and reports</li><li>Demonstrated acumen for project management: balance priorities, lead cross-functional efforts, pay keen attention to detail</li><li>Strong leadership skills with ability to take swift decisions, set clear objectives, drive outputs while managing strict timelines, motivate and manage teams</li></ul><h3>What we offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Medicare for you and your family</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Manager, Climate Operations

<p>We are looking for a seasoned asset management leader with over a decade of experience in asset management, and deep operational knowledge in any combination of sustainable asset technologies, supplemented by a strong commercial skill set and excellent knowledge of project finance and accounting concepts. You must have 5+ years’ experience as the P&amp;L owner of a portfolio of sustainable assets, and experience leading a team of mid-to-senior level professionals. You can drive cross-functional teams to successful outcomes with minimal oversight.</p><p><strong>What you will be doing at Generate Capital as the VP, Asset Management:</strong></p><ul><li>Becoming an expert in the operations of each asset segment under your management, actively keeping abreast of current market trends, technological developments, and strategies employed by other owners to ensure that Generate Capital’s asset management program remains on the cutting edge.</li><li>Owning and delivering on Generate’s KPIs for the operating portfolio, including EBITDA, CROE, and operational performance.</li><li>Leading the identification and implementation of strategies for further optimization of assets, both operational and commercial, as well as strategies to mitigate risk.</li><li>Driving organization and optimization of internal Generate processes to build on Generate’s best-in-class asset management program and enhance its scalability.</li><li>Managing, developing, and retaining a team of high-performing mid-to-senior level professionals, including some who are also managing teams of their own.</li><li>Specific responsibilities of the team that you will lead include:</li><li>Overall P&amp;L ownership of the operating portfolio, actively managing all activities necessary to ensure that all investments meet or exceed targeted returns.</li><li>Contract management and compliance</li><li>Risk management</li><li>Working with development partners to implement long-term plans for maximizing the performance of the portfolio.</li><li>Developing, maintaining and presenting reporting on the progress of the portfolio, including communication with the investment team, other equity holders, the executive team, tax-advantage investors and leverage providers concerning deployment updates, operational health and financial targets relative to base-case models.</li><li>Managing relationships with external financing parties.</li><li>Managing short-term and long-term costs, producing in-depth variance analysis of results vs. base case, and producing highly accurate forecasting for asset P&amp;Ls.</li><li>Working closely with Accounting and FP&amp;A to ensure the accuracy of asset financials and assisting with responses to audit requests.</li><li>Onboarding new assets to the portfolio, including tranching, documentation, and ensuring that other internal stakeholders receive necessary information and deliverables.</li><li>Identifying and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and partners relevant to the portfolio, including but not limited to incentive program managers, customers, vendors, and financing counterparties, and managing disputes and other issues as needed.</li><li>Tracking equipment and performance/availability warranties in a structured and scalable manner.</li><li>Creating and running RFPs or otherwise sourcing appropriate vendors to serve the portfolio’s requirements, focusing on building relationships with best-in-class providers and formulating market-leading strategies and structures.</li><li>Assisting in due diligence and formulation of operating assumptions for possible new additions to Generate’s portfolio and providing insights and recommendations for future underwriting based on lessons learned in the existing portfolio.</li><li>Managing day-to-day relationships with customers/offtakers, including invoicing, collections, and issue resolution.</li><li>Formulating and executing on commercial strategy, such as monetizing incentive credits, hedging, and participation in ancillary services markets.</li></ul><p><strong>Candidate qualifications &amp; core characteristics:</strong></p><ul><li>A demonstrated passion for, or commitment to, our mission</li><li>15+ years of relevant professional experience, with a minimum of 10 years of experience in a renewable power generation asset management/operations role.</li><li>5+ years’ experience leading a high-performing team of mid-level or more senior professionals, and willingness to go above and beyond to develop and engage your team.</li><li>Extensive experience liaising with external financing parties</li><li>Experience with asset sale/divestment processes</li><li>Expert knowledge of project accounting, project finance, and other financial concepts relevant to renewable energy.</li><li>Strong knowledge of common revenue streams and incentive programs for renewable assets, such as SRECs, SGIP, various capacity market products, and demand reduction. Some prior exposure to utility tariffs and merchant power markets required.</li><li>Prior experience resolving commercial disputes</li><li>Experience presenting to an executive audience.</li><li>A four-year degree, preferably in accounting, finance, or engineering with an MBA preferred</li><li>Experience in a growth company is preferable</li><li>Unimpeachable integrity and glowing references</li><li>Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including empathy, intuition, and listening as well as strong writing, editing, and basic design skills.</li><li>High level of self-awareness and humility, with excitement about confronting uncomfortable situations or new challenges</li><li>Intellectual agility, curiosity, and creativity; problem-solving is your default mode</li><li>Entrepreneurial spirit: flexibility, comfort with risk, recognition that “perfect can be the enemy of the good”</li></ul><p>Generate’s compensation packages are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Salary decisions take into account a wide variety of factors including, but not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications<span style="color:#000000;">, geographic location, a</span>nd other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">$190,000 - $250,000. </span>In addition, the compensation package may include a discretionary bonus and other benefits, including health care benefits, retirement benefits, benefits permitting paid days off (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid time off or vacation benefits), and other benefits that must be reported for federal tax purposes. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of this range. </p><p>Generate Capital is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or handicap, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.</p>

VP, Asset Management

<p>You are a highly systematic, organized, hard-working and self-directed individual who is also a good communicator and is excited by the opportunity to work as a part of the firm’s Capital Market’s team to support various capital formation activities. You enjoy building internal and external relationships, understand capital formation processes for private funds and related vehicles and structures, and enjoy tracking the private capital market.   </p><p><strong>What you will be doing at Generate Capital as the Vice President, Fundraising: </strong></p><ul><li>Contribute to the activity of the Fundraising team including:<ul><li>Formation of various structures and terms</li><li>Product development of new fund and co-investment offerings</li><li>Preparation of marketing and investor materials</li><li>Support expansion and management of relationships with existing and prospective institutional clients</li><li>Organization of investor due diligence process and management of data room</li><li>Responsible for responding to investor questions and requests throughout and after fundraising</li><li>Planning marketing events and fundraising roadshows</li><li>Investor reporting</li></ul></li><li>Maintain market research on industry trends, competitor activities and investor information</li><li>Communicate with other teams within Capital Markets to gather existing and new investor feedback</li><li>Other general support of Head of Infrastructure Fundraising as needed</li></ul><p><strong>Candidate requirements and qualifications:</strong>                                                                                                                     </p><p><em>Requisite Traits</em>                                                                                                    </p><ul><li>Strong work ethic and commitment to a high standard of excellence</li><li>Superb analytical, communication and presentation skills</li><li>Detail orientation and meticulousness with an uncompromising desire for timeliness and accuracy of data</li><li>Proven ability to balance multiple assignments and manage quality, accuracy, and consistency of each work product</li><li>Ability to operate autonomously and exceed expectations despite minimal guidance</li><li>Entrepreneurial spirit: flexibility to do whatever it takes and ability to succeed in ambiguous situations</li><li>Proven ability to manage large workloads to meet strict deadlines</li><li>Ability to synthesize and clearly communicate findings of analyses</li><li>Resourceful and creative in approach to research and problem-solving</li><li>Superior interpersonal skills</li><li>Intellectual agility and curiosity</li><li>Ability to work well in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment</li><li>Proven ability to work with diverse groups of people in challenging and complex endeavors</li><li>Unimpeachable character, strong values orientation, and a cultural fit with a rapidly growing investment firm</li></ul><p><em>Qualifications                                                                                                                                                                                         </em></p><ul><li>5+ years of industry experience working in roles related to private funds</li><li>Knowledge and experience in infrastructure and sustainability</li><li>Knowledge and experience with multiple fund structures</li><li>Preference for experience with <span style="color:rgb(29, 28, 29);font-family:Slack-Lato , Slack-Fractions , appleLogo , sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;white-space:normal;display:inline !important;float:none;">infrastructure</span> and related institutional investors</li><li>Experience in working with institutional investors in relation to fundraising or investor relations functions</li><li>Strong knowledge of financial markets and investment products</li><li>Bachelor’s degree with high academic achievement</li><li>High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint. Proficiency with Salesforce or similar relationship management software platform</li><li>Strong references from prior employers and peers</li></ul><p>This position will be based in our New York or San Francisco office.</p><p>Generate’s compensation packages are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Salary decisions take into account a wide variety of factors including, but not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications<span style="color:#000000;">, geographic location, a</span>nd other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is $184,000 - $230,000. In addition, the compensation package may include a discretionary bonus and other benefits, including health care benefits, retirement benefits, benefits permitting paid days off (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid time off or vacation benefits), and other benefits that must be reported for federal tax purposes. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of this range. </p><p>Generate Capital is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or handicap, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.</p>

VP, Fundraising

<p>We are looking for an experienced structured &amp; project finance professional to lead the successful structuring, negotiation and closing of third-party capital for Generate’s sustainable infrastructure assets and loan portfolios. Using your strong project financing transaction expertise and comprehensive market knowledge you will originate investment commitments, manage deal execution, coordinate with internal stakeholders and external partners, and be responsible for due diligence, modeling, documentation, closing and funding transactions to established timelines. </p><p>You are incredibly analytical and quantitative while also a communicator and a relationship builder, passionate about the type of<br>work Generate is doing, looking to apply your relevant banking or finance experience to help scale a growing business through<br>our capital resources and profile.</p><p><strong>What you will be doing at Generate Capital as a VP on the Capital Markets team:</strong></p><ul><li>Work as part of a small (but growing) team as an integral part of the capital markets strategy</li><li>Develop and execute on tax equity and debt structures that allow the company to finance individual assets, asset<br>portfolios and credit portfolios most efficiently</li><li>Work with the investment team on identifying, pricing and structuring transactions, including term sheet development<br>and overseeing the diligence process</li><li>Lead a deal team on tax equity financings, proactively driving deal structuring and negotiation and bringing transactions<br>to a successful closing</li><li>Partner cross-functionally with our deal teams, treasury, asset management, and financial operations teams to drive<br>strategy and optimize tactics as it relates to capital markets</li><li>Build and oversee financial models to perform comparison and financial valuation analyses on potential capital<br>structure optimization initiatives</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with banks, syndicators, direct lenders and other relevant third party capital<br>providers</li></ul><h3><strong>Candidate qualifications &amp; core characteristics:</strong></h3><ul><li>A demonstrated passion for, or commitment to, our mission</li><li>Undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent work experience, with outstanding academic record and<br>high level of personal integrity</li><li>7-10 years of relevant experience in the sustainable infrastructure or renewable energy industry with a demonstrated<br>track record of structuring and closing on tax equity and project debt transactions as sponsor or investor. Deep<br>experience leading tax equity transactions a must.</li><li>Established network of relevant industry contacts and the drive to build and maintain a strong network of long-term<br>relationships with both tax equity and debt providers</li><li>Outstanding analytical, quantitative and technical abilities, including expert command over project finance and tax<br>equity modeling concepts, tax equity structures, accounting and financial statements</li><li>Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills and the desire to work with both internal and external stakeholders</li><li>Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment</li><li>Unimpeachable integrity and glowing references</li><li>Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including empathy, intuition, and listening as well as strong<br>writing, editing, and basic design skills.</li><li>High level of self-awareness and humility, with excitement about confronting uncomfortable situations or new<br>challenges</li><li>Intellectual agility, curiosity, and creativity; problem-solving is your default mode</li><li>Entrepreneurial spirit: flexibility, comfort with risk, recognition that “perfect can be the enemy of the good”</li></ul><p>Generate’s compensation packages are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Salary decisions take into account a wide variety of factors including, but not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, geographic location, and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is $170,000 to $210,000. In addition, the compensation package may include a discretionary bonus and other benefits, including health care benefits, retirement benefits, benefits permitting paid days off (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid time off or vacation benefits), and other benefits that must be reported for federal tax purposes. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of this range. </p><p>Generate Capital is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or handicap, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.</p>

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