An infrastructure accelerator with excellent capabilities in the appraisal, advisory, and project development of major industrial, as well as infrastructural, projects in Africa is Brickstone Africa. Yet, with the aim of assuring profitability and protecting its long-term asset value for sponsors, Brickstone’s early-stage project development competencies apply throughout the whole process of building capital-intensive projects.
Brickstone Africa was established in 2009 by Femi Awofala as a real estate advisory company. Since then, the company has evolved into an early-stage infrastructure accelerator with the help of a team of experts with extensive commercial and financial management experience, including sourcing, developing, closing, and delivering equity, project/corporate finance, and other contractual structures across major infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Title: Graduate Internship Programme (GIP)
Location: Lagos
Probation Period: 1 month
Position Description
- The Brickstone Graduate Internship Program (GIP) offers the best chance to obtain expertise of financing large-scale projects, develop your technical and professional abilities, and build the groundwork for your future career at Brickstone Africa.
- This internship is only available to Pre-NYSC, NYSC, and 0–2 year (Post-NYSC) service members who have successfully completed the FMVA certification course and are proficient in using FMVA.
- The FMVA certification offers all the information, abilities, and methods necessary to succeed in the Brickstone Graduate Internship Program, according to Brickstone. The ideal candidates for this hybrid full-time position (both online and in person) should reside in or commute everyday from the Lagos Mainland.
Brickstone’s value proposition for its Graduate Internship Programme
- You will be able to expand your knowledge, get real-world experience, and decide if you are in the correct professional field by taking part in Brickstone GIP. You can use Brickstone GIP to comprehend the career trajectory for the Investment Banking and Infrastructure Project Finance Sector for your selected job title. Young graduates and students can learn a lot while developing connections in the professional world and meeting new individuals.
- In the end, Brickstone GIP will inspire you to have a better awareness of your strengths and limitations by assisting you in learning about your skills. It occasionally presents difficulties. However the advantages you acquire from being forced outside of your comfort zone at the Brickstone GIP will be extremely helpful to you later on when you are faced with a challenging task or circumstance.
Areas of Concentration for the Brickstone Gip Internship
Business Presentation
- gaining understanding of the documentation used for industrial study for Powerpoint Presentations. You will work on various presentations, each of which will vary in form and content.
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You will be exposed to business content from every industry (for example, healthcare, energy, infrastructure, and real estate) with a variety of guidelines, ranging from developing engaging content based on information gathered, flowcharts, and enhancing visuals/frameworks to convey the message, to communicating ideation to our clients using PowerPoint Presentation.
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These presentations will be made for various audiences and objectives, which will also help you understand the Infrastructure background and how Brickstone operates.
- constructing financial models based on previous data and delivering estimates based on numerous operating parameters relevant to the industry.
- Making suggestions for and implementing processes to generate the company’s forecast and budget.
- determining the most important financial and non-financial risks and advising steps to reduce those risks.
- sensitivity and scenario analysis that is appropriate to support investment decisions.
- determining the needs of the project and the client for diverse projects
- Once pledges and accomplishments are made, monthly, weekly, or daily progress reports should be created.
- juggling the conflicting demands for projects’ quality, scope, time, and budget.
Probation
- After the probation is over, there will be a one-month probationary period.
We Need These Technical Skills:
- completed the FMVA certification training and achieved FMVA use
- Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are all Microsoft Office tools that you should be familiar with.
- a strong grasp of financial projections, strong financial modeling, and strong valuation capabilities
- Ability to create PowerPoint pitch decks and gather, process, and analyze data efficiently
Additional prerequisites
- 0–2 Experience but a Second-Class Upper or Better in Any Degree
- the capacity to pick up new ideas fast, Operating with little oversight, strong teamwork
- Possessing good presentation and interpersonal abilities
- A great advantage is demonstrating a core interest in investment banking, corporate finance, project finance, and financial advisory.
The Payroll Factor
- For their first two or three months, interns would get a stipend of NGN 75,000 per month.
Application Deadline
Not Specified.
Means of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online