Investment Analyst

About Community Investment Management (CIM)

Community Investment Management (CIM) is a global institutional impact investment manager that provides strategic debt funding to scale and demonstrate responsible innovation in lending to underserved borrowers in the United States and emerging markets. CIM aims to advance financial inclusion by partnering with select tech-enabled lending partners, improve financial health, and drive widespread adoption of fintech innovation by the financial mainstream. Founded with a mission to drive significant social impact and financial inclusion, CIM focuses on analyzing and investing in high-potential fintech platforms. Their work involves close collaboration with numerous stakeholders, including financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and social entrepreneurs. CIM takes a holistic approach to investment that encompasses financial sustainability, social impact, and technological innovation. By leveraging the latest in technology and financial analysis, CIM supports projects that span multiple continents and cater to diverse communities, consistently adhering to their core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

About this Role

We are looking for an Investment Analyst to join our Emerging Markets team in Bogota, Colombia. The Investment Analyst will contribute to all aspects of CIM’s work across Emerging Markets, establishing CIM as the eminent credit provider for fintech lending products and platforms in our target markets. The Investment Analyst will conduct deal-specific research, financial and credit analysis on new and existing investments. The role includes supporting the monitoring of existing investments with periodic analytical reviews and direct portfolio company engagement. You will synthesize findings, develop analytical perspectives on companies with limited information, create detailed investment memos, and make recommendations to the team. The role also involves supporting the team in investment structuring, negotiation, documentation, and execution. You will assist in building new investment theses by analyzing and assessing new markets, fintech verticals, and monitoring the competitive and regulatory landscapes in target markets. You will work closely with the teams in San Francisco, New York, Zurich, and other CIM locations on investor reporting, audits, risk reporting, and technology coordination. The role requires occasional travel to target markets, as well as to CIM head office in San Francisco or other offices.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deal-specific research, financial and credit analysis on new and existing investments.
• Support the monitoring of existing investments with periodic analytical reviews and direct portfolio company engagement.
• Synthesize findings, develop analytical perspectives on companies with limited information, create detailed investment memos, and make recommendations to the team.
• Support the team in investment structuring, negotiation, documentation, and execution.
• Assist in building new investment theses by analyzing and assessing new markets, fintech verticals, and monitoring the competitive and regulatory landscapes in target markets.
• Work closely with teams in San Francisco, New York, Zurich, and other CIM locations on investor reporting, audits, risk reporting, and technology coordination.
• Travel occasionally to target markets and CIM head office in San Francisco or other offices.

Requirements

• Passionate about social impact, relentlessly inquisitive about identifying emerging trends, and constructively obsessed about assessing the best emerging teams and companies.
• 1-2 years of previous work experience, with a background in fintech, investment banking, debt financing, or structuring.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and comfort with assessing financial models.
• Comfortable communicating clearly and effectively in team discussions and sharing own opinion.
• Excited to work in a small, fluid, ambitious, and highly collaborative global team with a high degree of autonomy, self-motivation, and discipline.
• Strong interpersonal skills, collaborative mindset, self-starter, and an exceptional work ethic.
• Fluent in Spanish and English; knowledge of other languages is a plus.
• Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, or experience managing relational databases or data warehouses in AWS Cloud viewed favorably.

Benefits

• Opportunity to make a significant social impact through financial inclusion.
• Work with a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary global team.
• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
• Chance to work in diverse and emerging markets.
• Regular exposure to cutting-edge fintech innovation and strategies.