OCA Uganda Jobs – Paid No Experience Graduate Trainees

Job Title: Graduate Trainees – OCA Uganda Jobs  

Organization: Open Capital Advisors (OCA)

Duration: Minimum 3-year commitment

Open Capital Advisors (OCA) Profile

Open Capital Advisors (OCA) is a management consulting and financial advisory firm that drives growth, enables investment, and builds markets across Africa. We help businesses, investors, and development partners identify opportunities to deliver unique, impactful solutions. By offering deep, operationally-focused management support and creative financial structuring, we help open markets and support sustainable businesses to transform industries.

Since we founded Open Capital in 2010, we have completed more than 500 engagements across industries spanning 20+ countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our Africa-based team of 120+ brings experience from the world’s top consultancies, private equity firms, investment banks, and development organizations including The Boston Consulting Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, IFC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and The World Bank. We currently have offices in Nairobi, Kampala, and Lusaka, and expect significant expansion in the coming years, both in terms of the geographies where we work as well in terms of the types of engagements we structure with our clients.

Job Profile

We continue to expand rapidly and are looking for exceptional graduates to join our team for a minimum 3-year commitment supporting OCA projects and our clients in 3-6 month rotating embedded placements. You will work with different innovative businesses in roles ranging from analysing new business opportunities to creating and managing new systems to overseeing client budgeting. On a day to day basis, you will perform market research, develop financial models, and create presentations for clients. By rotating between opportunities every 3-6 months, you will quickly build diverse experience, working with senior-level clients and senior management within our team and offering unprecedented opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Analysts will start with a rigorous training program to build strategic and financial skills, combining hands-on coaching and real-world experience in order to prepare you to assume responsibility as you grow in your role. Training is an integral part of this multi-year commitment and is funded by the company as part of this full-time position. This training is typically held in Nairobi, Kenya.

You will join us at an exciting time – we are seeking to achieve broad, ambitious growth goals, and can now leverage a strong international brand in the impact investing and frontier market space. As we look to deepen our reach in the broader African market, there will continue to be many opportunities to engage across SSA. The right candidate should be excited and genuinely motivated by the challenging strategic and financial questions we answer for our clients.

Minimum qualifications and experience

We are looking for exceptional, hard-working, and ambitious new graduates who share our motivation and drive. You should be able to develop insightful analyses, problem-solve through analytical and organizational challenges, communicate often & clearly, perform excellent work, contribute fresh ideas, and take pleasure in the work we do. Our team is energetic and driven and we are quick to reward performance and initiative.

We are open to candidates with a variety of backgrounds; top candidates will typically have the following:

• Strong academic performance in any discipline and a clear understanding of business
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and analytical abilities
• Desire to learn and grow while being exposed to new industries and business issues
• Ability to work effectively in teams
• Enjoy solving challenging strategic and financial questions
• Able to begin work full time for a start date in February 2020

How to Apply:

All interested candidates who wish to join our organization should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 17th September. 2019

The interviews will take place between September and early October 2019.