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Role Profile
Job title: Investment Manager – Real Asset investments
Division: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund
Reports to: Senior Investment Director/Investment Director
Job Family: Investment, Asset & Liability Management
Career Stream: Professional
Career Zone: Line Managers/Senior Professionals
Contract Type: Permanent
Application Closing Date: Friday 12th of June
Summary Of The Business
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) provides asset and liability management services to the Irish Government. It has evolved from a single function agency managing the National Debt to a manager of a complex portfolio of public assets and liabilities.
Businesses managed by the NTMA include borrowing for the Exchequer and the management of the National Debt, the State Claims Agency, the New Economy and Recovery Authority (New ERA), the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), and the National Development Finance Agency. The NTMA also assigns staff to the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) and Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI).
Working at the NTMA offers excellent benefits including:
Flexible work options including remote working and variable work hours
An extensive wellbeing programme
Excellent learning and development opportunities that allow for full career development within the organisation
A diverse range of initiatives: LGBT+, Gender Matters, Disability Awareness, Sports & Social, Volunteering and lots more
Reimbursement of annual professional membership fees
Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund sources and completes investments on a commercial basis in a manner designed to support economic activity and employment in Ireland. This dual objective, commercial return & economic impact, is known as our double bottom line. ISIF’s strategy focuses on making transformational investments across its impact themes of Climate, Housing and Enabling Investments, Scaling Indigenous Businesses, and Food and Agriculture. See www.isif.ie for more detail.
The Real Assets team is responsible for one of ISIF’s four core impact themes and makes investments across the housing, commercial real estate, urban regeneration and infrastructure sectors which includes:
Making direct equity and debt investments in large scale high impact projects in Dublin and nationally across urban regeneration, commercial real estate and core infrastructure developments
Making commitments to fund platforms that can transform the funding landscape for homebuilding, create new workplaces and enhance Ireland’s global connectivity
Role Summary
The Investment Manager is a key role within the Real Assets team that will work collaboratively on deal teams. The successful candidate can expect to work on all aspects of a transaction, ranging from origination through to deal structuring and negotiation, due diligence and underwriting, financial analysis, preparation of investment papers and managing legal processes and ongoing investment monitoring. The successful candidate can expect to work on many types of transactions ranging from direct equity or debt investments in development projects, to making and structuring investments in residential, commercial real estate and infrastructure funds and platforms. The role offered provides an ideal and unique opportunity for a high-calibre candidate, with 5+ years of investment related experience from a background consistent with the experience sought for the role, to gain exposure to the highest standards of the investment management industry.
Principal Accountabilities
Completing financial and commercial analysis and due diligence on transactions
Working on investments in projects that are through the development cycle from pre-planning to design and construction
Co-ordinating projects/transactions, reviewing and ensuring quality, driving delivery
Setting scope of analysis required, liaising with professional advisors as required and interpreting due diligence
Contributing to deal structuring, developing investment term sheets, reviewing and commenting on investment documentation, financial models and ancillary legal agreements
Proposing and implementing plans of action/next steps and monitoring progress and delivery
Producing very high quality written reports, internal papers and presentations
Wide ranging monitoring responsibilities
Part of team involved in negotiations with third parties
Understanding and appreciating ISIF strategies and mandate in detail
Knowledge
Have a third level qualification.
Demonstrate a keen and well informed interest in investments with experience in real estate or infrastructure investments with a particular focus on equity investments.
Technically strong across sector(s) and/or product types
Experience
Indicatively 5+ years’ of investment related experience, preferably in investment banking, corporate finance, commercial/corporate banking, accountancy, infrastructure or real estate investment, or similar environment
Experience working on real estate, infrastructure and other direct and cashflow based transactions will be an advantage but not a requirement
Experience of relationship management with clients, advisors, investees and/or other third parties
Skills
An independent operator and thinker with demonstrable interest in the real assets sector
Strong analytical skills incorporating commercial and financial analysis
A strong communicator, both in writing and verbally
An open and good collaborator
Displays high level of appetite, flexibility, accuracy, speed, delivery and reliability
Flexible and considerate team player
Good range of interpersonal skills to influence internal and external stakeholders
The NTMA is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognise that a diverse and inclusive workplace informs better decision making, creative thinking, innovation and drives business performance. We are strongly committed to ensuring that our workforce is representative of our society.
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