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Investment Manager
Pula
Posted 3 months agoRemote (Hybrid)
Location
Remote (Hybrid)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Mid-Level
Category
Sales
Job Description
About Pula Xcelerator
The Pula Xcelerator is Pula’s internal M&A and strategic investment vehicle, responsible for identifying, evaluating, and accelerating high-potential businesses across Africa. We enable selected companies to scale using our distribution, data, and partnership networks.
We focus on enterprises generating at least $500K in annual revenue in agriculture, insurance, financial services, or technology. Through structured acceleration, funding pathways, and hands-on operational support, the Xcelerator helps ambitious teams turn proven solutions into continent-wide scale.
This role is for someone who thrives in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will identify and evaluate high-potential businesses, engage with founders, and play a key role in shaping the systems that define the Xcelerator.
As an Investment Manager, you will take ownership of the investment process, from sourcing opportunities through to evaluation and execution.
What matters most is your commercial insight and entrepreneurial experience, rather than a purely formal finance background. You will scout opportunities, perform due diligence, and lead investment recommendations.
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Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience with a strong entrepreneurial or commercial investment background:
- Venture capital, private equity, or corporate M&A experience
- Strategic investment or corporate development experience
- Former co-founder/startup operator
- Demonstrated experience in investment transactions (sourcing, diligence, negotiation and execution)
- Skilled at evaluating business models, unit economics, and growth potential
- Comfortable engaging directly with founders and senior stakeholders
- Hands-on, execution-focused; not purely advisory
- Formal finance qualifications helpful, but practical experience prioritized
- Personal Attributes
- Entrepreneurial and commercially curious
- High ownership and accountability
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure
- Clear thinker, able to explain insights without jargon
Responsibilities
- Lead evaluation of prospective companies, focusing on commercial potential, scalability, and strategic fit
- Conduct end-to-end due diligence across financials, operations, and business fundamentals
- Engage directly with founders and senior management to test assumptions and assess capability
- Reconstruct financials where needed and lead preparation of investment memos for decision-making
- Build, own, and actively manage a pipeline of high-potential companies
- Take ownership of deal execution, including structuring and closing
- Operate as a hands-on execution lead, personally driving outputs
- Contribute to designing and refining internal systems to track and accelerate portfolio companies
