M&A Due Diligence Analyst — African Fintech & Agritech Targets

Requirement

A London emerging markets private equity fund is building a deal pipeline in African fintech and agritech, and has concluded it cannot run that pipeline from London. Management assessments conducted over video, financial diligence based on founder-supplied spreadsheets, and legal review coordinated across time zones produce the kind of diligence that looks complete and misses what matters. The fund requires an analyst based in Nigeria or South Africa to run the work on the ground. The mandate covers financial due diligence — quality of earnings, revenue recognition, working capital and customer concentration analysis on companies whose accounts are frequently unaudited or inconsistently prepared; coordination of local legal review across counsel in multiple jurisdictions; and management assessment, meaning time spent with founding teams and their operations rather than a reference call. This is a high-urgency, deal-driven engagement: the analyst works to live transaction timetables and must be able to turn around diligence findings inside a fund's exclusivity window. Engagements are scoped from $8,000 for a single target's financial diligence through $20,000 for full diligence coordination on a transaction through to investment committee.