Financial Analyst Consultant

City: Asuncion, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, Sao Paulo
- Company: IDB Invest
- Posting End Date: 8/13/2025
**Location**:
The position can be based in any of the following cities: Buenos Aires (Argentina), São Paulo (Brazil), Santiago de Chile (Chile), Asuncion (Paraguay) or Montevideo (Uruguay).
**We improve lives**:
IDB Invest is the private sector arm of the IDB Group and an international financial institution committed to addressing the development needs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Our mission is to support sustainable enterprises and projects that deliver financial results while maximizing social and environmental impact in the region.
IDB Invest operates in 26 countries, structured across four geographic regions and three industry verticals: Infrastructure and Energy, Financial Intermediaries, and Corporates.
In support of a new transformative business model “Originate to Share” our shareholders recently approved a $3.5 billion capitalization. This will allow IDB Invest to significantly scale up its investments, nearly doubling annual financing from approximately $8 billion to $19 billion, and unlocking greater private sector participation to drive development and climate impact across the region.
This position is part of IDB Invest’s dual-reporting structure, designed to enhance collaboration and maximize development impact across the region. In this model:
- The Regions Department manages client relationships by geography across Latin America and the Caribbean.
- The Industries and Cross-Cutting Themes Department provides sector leadership, with divisions focused on key industries, strategic priorities, and portfolio management.
You will work closely with both departments, leveraging geographic proximity and sectoral expertise to deliver high-impact solutions for our clients.
**About this position**:
The Infrastructure and Energy Division (IEN), part of the Industries and Cross-Cutting Themes Department, leads the development and delivery of operations in transport, water and sanitation, energy, and social infrastructure across all regions.
The Southern Cone Division (RSC), part of the Regions Department, is responsible for managing business and client engagement from a country perspective within its member countries. It also provides oversight to the Country Representatives of the IDB’s Vice Presidency for Countries and to the Heads of Delivery Units at IDB Invest.
The Delivery Units are responsible for: (i) establishing and maintaining client relationships, (ii) building pipeline through upstream project and sector development, (iii) transaction execution through the incorporation of multiple financial products including loans, guarantees, debt capital markets, equity and quasi-equity instruments, as well as resource mobilization and technical cooperation and (iv) acting as the center of institutional knowledge and expertise for the sectors covered by the Division.
You will report to the Director of the Delivery Unit that has a dual-reporting structure to both the Managing Director of the Infrastructure & Energy Division (IEN) and the Southern Cone Division (RSC).
**What you’ll do**:
The consultant's scope of activities shall include, but not be limited to, providing support for the identification, appraisal, structuring, negotiation, closing, disbursement, and monitoring of infrastructure and energy projects, mostly structured as limited recourse project finance transactions in the sectors listed above. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
**Project Origination**
- Prepare marketing materials: teasers, financial proposals, and presentations to prospective clients.
- Conduct industry and market research and assist investment Officers in business development efforts, including research relative to prospective projects and sponsors, gather and review relevant market and financial data. data and help with the preparation of operations summaries and preliminary desk evaluations of potential projects.
- Build and maintain quality client relationships to ensure responsive client service and to improve new business opportunities.
**Structuring Process**
- Prepare terms of reference and lead the selection of external consulting firms (independent engineers, market consultants, insurance consultants, tax & financial model consultants, etc.) that support the investment team in the appraisal of project finance operations.
- Work with other team members and the external consulting firms to perform the due diligence process of the transactions.
- Participate in negotiations with clients to gather necessary technical, legal, economic, and financial information. Information is assigned to assess the merits of potential lending or equity investment projects.
- Create, review, and/or adapt financial models and prepare sensitivity analyses required in connection with the credit assessment of the transactions.
- Review and analyze historical and projected financial data statem

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