Director, Financial Inclusion

About Palladium:

Palladium is aglobal company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on thelives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health,water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, andtransformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges;and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have aworkforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions,races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium'scapital advisory team is a leading impact investment bank creating solutionsand mobilizing capital to address the world's most pressing challenges.The team combines strengths at the intersection of impact investing,international development and strategy consultancy. The capital advisory teamis comprised of 20 corporate finance and impact investing professionals, based broadlyin London and New York City, tackling global and local problems that requirecreative, hands-on and people-focused approaches to mobilizing capital andunlocking positive impact. There is increasing urgency to direct financial andhuman capital towards social inclusion and justice and environmentalregeneration, and we are looking for resourceful, purpose-driven people to joinour flat and rapidly growing team. As an organization with a great varietyof clients, we believe in equal opportunities and value diversity in our team.

We are workingwith mission-driven companies from across the world, with the majority of ourclients based in or focused on emerging markets, and in a wide array of sectorsof the impact economy. Within Palladium, the Capital Advisory team focuses onthree broad sets of services:

Location:

The position isbased in Palladium's New York City office.

You and Your Career:

If you are aproblem-solver, collaborator, and doer, and you have experience in ininvestment banking, consulting, advisory, or a similar field, we are interestedin hearing from you.

We are alearning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start. Wepride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart afulfilling career!

Reporting Lines:

This positionwill report to Managing Director in our capital advisory services team based inNew York.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Financial Inclusion haslong been a core pilar of our investment banking business, including in theareas of microfinance, FinTech's and alternative lenders. We are now lookingfor a professional with deep experience in the sector, to drive the furthergrowth in this area, to include capital raising, M&A and consultingservices.

The Director willwork closely together with the Managing Director in managing the business. Inaddition, the role will interface with the wider capital advisory team andother client-facing teams within the broader Palladium business, as well aswith the company's key support functions, such as Finance, HR and IT

Businessdevelopment

• Develop the origination strategy for the Financial Inclusion sector
• Establish and maintain relationships in the industry
• Oversee the preparation of Marketing material, proposals/pitch documents
• Lead preparation of proposals
• Mandateexecution and project management
• Primary responsibility for client relationships and service delivery

Lead project management

• Oversee the preparation of client deliverables
• Provide oversight to project managers through project execution

Practicing building

• Contribute to the knowledge base of the team and improvement of internal processes and tools
• Support the raising of our profile through written thought pieces and public speaking
• Supporting guiding and training more junior colleagues

Key Competencies Required:

• Prior experience in financial inclusion and in a transaction environment, leading on transactions and client relationships
• Understanding of a sell-side advisory environment, including a general understanding of investment processes
• Prior experience in a regulated business and direct involvement with regulatory reporting

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Views impact investing as a means to shift the paradigm and transform the world of finance to work better for the world
• Always looks for root causes of problems and is able to see them in their broader context
• Can come up with creative solutions to complex issues and see them through their implementation
• Is willing to learn and is someone who we can learn from
• Has a strong work ethic
• Is able to balance multiple demands with keen attention to detail and light supervision
• Displays strong initiative and ability to work independently
• Is able to deliver consistently high levels of accuracy, efficiency and follow-through
• Has the ability to exercise independent judgment and proactively ask questions as needed

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed toembedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcomeapplications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity todrive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcomeand seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all jobapplicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of theirbackground or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to)socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion,ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital orIndigenous status.

Should yourequire any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or youare a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email ourteam at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken byPalladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with fromharm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come intocontact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection processincluding safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.