About SkyQuest

SkyQuest Technology Consulting is a rapidly expanding global advisory firm specialising in market intelligence, innovation management, and commercialisation strategy. We partner with corporates, governments, and development organisations to turn insights into implementation.

Our Development Practice runs programmes with governments, global foundations, multilaterals and development finance institutions across India and Africa, in agriculture, agricultural finance, food systems and health. More and more, that includes helping Indian agribusinesses take proven products and models to African markets, and structuring the capital to get them there.

Learn more: https://www.skyquestt.com

About the Role

We are looking for a finance professional with 6+ years of hands-on experience in transaction advisory, investment banking, project finance or DFI / impact investment. You should be able to build a model from a blank sheet, defend a valuation and turn a business plan into a fundable deal.

Your first mandate: a leading Indian seed company setting up operations in Nigeria, under a programme backed by a global philanthropic foundation. The company is investing its own equity and will raise concessional debt alongside it. You will build the financial model, run the valuation, support the deal structuring, prepare the investment materials and work the fundraise through to financial close.

You will also support our technical assistance programme with a Nigerian agricultural development finance institution, and contribute to proposals that help SkyQuest win recent advisory mandates.

This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to grow into deal leadership.

Location: India, with travel to Nigeria as required

Work arrangement: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Modelling & Valuation

- Build and maintain the investor-grade financial model for the Nigeria expansion, covering seed production, processing, distribution, capex, working capital and three-statement outputs.
- Model IRR, DSCR,



payback, FX (naira) risk and sensitivity / scenario analysis.
- Run the valuation exercise (DCF, comparables, scenarios) and prepare the valuation report.
- Keep the model audit-ready and easy for lenders and the client to review.

2. Deal Structuring & Capital Stack

- Model capital-stack options combining promoter equity, concessional and commercial debt, guarantees, and grant or technical assistance funding.
- Support the design of the India → Nigeria holding and operating structure with legal and tax advisors, covering ODI / FEMA requirements, the Nigerian entity or SPV, shareholder arrangements and repatriation.
- Analyse term sheets (interest, tenor, grace period, covenants, security) and model their impact on the business.

3. Fundraising & Investor Materials

- Prepare teasers, information memoranda, investment presentations and financial due-diligence packs.
- Map and track potential funders, including DFIs, multilaterals, impact lenders and concessional-finance windows (e.g. IFC, AfDB, BII, FMO, Proparco, Norfund, and Indian export credit lines).
- Manage the data room and respond to lender due-diligence and ESG queries.
- Support the steps to financial close, then track covenants and lender reporting after close.

4. Programme Support & Business Development

- Build investment-readiness dossiers and financial models for agribusinesses in the partner institution’s pipeline.
- Model agri lending products, covering unit economics, repayment schedules, portfolio risk and the impact of guarantees or first-loss capital.
- Prepare financial analysis for blended-finance facility design,



diagnostics, workshops and programme reports.
- Draft the financial and commercial sections of proposals, EOIs and bids for DFI, multilateral and foundation tenders.
- Research and profile Indian agri and food companies with Africa expansion plans as potential SkyQuest clients.

Qualifications & Experience

Must-have

- MBA (Finance), CA or CFA (Level II or above).
- 6+ years of relevant experience in transaction advisory, investment banking, project finance or DFI / impact investment.
- Hands-on experience building three-statement financial models and valuations (DCF, comparables), independently and from scratch.
- Experience on at least one debt or equity fundraise, project finance deal or investment appraisal.
- Understanding of deal structuring: debt vs equity, capital stacks, SPVs and term-sheet basics.
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, and the ability to write clear investment memos and information memoranda.

Good to have

- Sector exposure to agriculture, seeds, agri-inputs or food processing.
- Exposure to DFI, multilateral or blended-finance transactions (concessional debt, guarantees, first-loss capital).
- Experience with cross-border / outbound investment from India (ODI, FEMA).
- Exposure to Nigeria or wider Africa.
- Experience writing donor- or DFI-funded proposals.
- An FMVA or equivalent certification, and hands-on use of AI tools for research, analysis and modelling.

- Important – Candidate requirement Candidates should share examples of financial models and transactions they have worked on, with the sector, deal size, instrument and their role.

Profiles limited to equity research, accounting or corporate FP&A;, without hands-on transaction or investment modelling experience, will not be suitable for this role.

How to Apply

- Apply directly through LinkedIn, or share your profile at [email protected] with the job title in the subject line, and include:

📌 Consultant – Agri Investment, Structuring & Development Finance (Ahmedabad)
🏢 SkyQuest Technology Consulting
📍 Ahmedabad