(Senior) Investment Officer - Origination

BlueOrchard is a leading global impact investment manager with a long-standing track record of delivering financial returns alongside measurable social and environmental outcomes. Established in 2001 as part of a United Nations initiative, the firm has been a pioneer in impact investing, with a particular focus on emerging and frontier markets.

With more than two decades of experience, global reach and deep local expertise, BlueOrchard offers a broad range of impact investment strategies designed to meet the needs of institutional, private, and public investors. These solutions provide access to high-growth markets while supporting job creation and sustainable economic development. The firm has invested billions of dollars across more than 100 countries, benefiting millions of underserved micro-, small- and mid-sized enterprises.

As part of Schroders, a global asset manager with a heritage spanning over 200 years, BlueOrchard combines specialist impact investing capabilities with institutional-grade infrastructure and governance.

Become part of this unique success story and join our fast-growing company in Lima, Peru as

         (Senior) Investment Officer - Origination

We are seeking an experienced (Senior) Investment Officer – Origination to manage a loan portfolio, bring new investees, and foster client relationships with financial institutions across the LATAM region.

The position requires 8-12 months stint on the Analytics team.

Key tasks

• Grow the portfolio of investees in the LATAM region, including deal structuring, conducting due diligence visits, negotiating, and drafting memorandum recommendations from the origination perspective.
• Execute thorough preliminary analyses to evaluate the risk of existing and potential investees, perform necessary due diligence, and develop appropriate loan structures to mitigate identified risks.
• Work with colleagues from the Analytics team to conduct in-person due diligence across various LATAM markets.
• Apply and contribute to the origination strategy for the portfolio of the region, based on the annual targets of risk, return, and impact. This includes:
  • Support in building a data base of potential new investees, based on bringing your own portfolio, conferences participation, as well as research from different markets. This includes FIs and non-FIs in countries where BOF already has a presence and new countries. For new countries, this includes researching the criteria that our Funds must comply with in order to do business.
  • Proactively support expanding the strategic partners base for syndicated and co-lending opportunities.
  • Contribute to developing the annual pipeline of new investees based on regional business plan targets and objectives.
  • Ensure a high retention level of existing investees from your portfolio, based on strong effort to maintain solid relationships and originate new debt transactions that meet their financing needs. 
  • Quarterly monitoring changes in the risk of the markets where we invest to timely adjust the origination strategy.

• Share knowledge with other team members about effective deal structuring, writing high quality memo recommendations, fit for each Fund, due diligence, negotiation techniques, investment tools, core system, among others.
• Provide support with board meetings requests, factsheets, and other corporate presentations.

• Actively support the development of business processes and tools, (i.e. work split, challenge meetings, job descriptions, among others).
• Represent the BOF at national and international conferences in coordination with the line manager.
• Along the other team members, collaborate with the annual goal-setting for the office.
• Promote the best working environment by understanding and role-modelling the vision, mission, and values of BOF and the office.
• Comply with the BOF’s Credit Procedures and business practices.
• Other responsibilities could be added or changed by the line manager to align with the changing needs of the business or the region.

Required skills

• 10+ years of relevant experience structuring loans and assessing Financial Institutions.
• Experience working in an impact investment manager, credit rating agency, the banking industry, or in deposit and non-deposit taking financial entities catering to SMEs and micro entrepreneurs with loans and tailor-made products like leasing and factoring;
• 5+ years of relevant working experience in the Region;
• Strong experience in performing financial due diligences and/or risk assessments on financial institutions;
• Experience with assessing debt investments and conducting detailed credit analysis;
• Experience with assessing social impact and ESG assessments.
• Excellent problem solving and presentation skills required to effectively manage internal and external communication;
• Excellent verbal and writing communication in English and Spanish is required, additional language(s) practiced in the region are a plus;
• Master’s degree in finance, business administration, economics, or related field;
• Willingness to live and work in Lima, Peru and to undertake regular travels in the region.

Your personal profile

• It is expected that you bring your own portfolio of financial institutions from the region.
• Highly commercial, goal oriented, flexible, analytical, self-starter with ambition to excel, and detail oriented;
• High work ethic, capable of multitasking and producing high quality output within set deadlines;
• Demonstrated team player with the ability to work in an international and multi-cultural environment;
• High degree of responsibility and accountability.

What we offer

• Work in a global and fast-growing company with a true commitment to its mission of fighting global poverty and climate change;
• An entrepreneurial culture, offering multiple opportunities for learning and development;
• A dynamic and multicultural team spread around the globe;
• Attractive compensation and exciting career opportunities.

Desired Start date: 01 July 2026

Please apply in ENGLISH, including CV and cover letter via www.blueorchard.com/about-us/careers/

Kindly note that only online applications received through our Careers - BlueOrchard will be taken under consideration.

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