International Finance Corp (IFC)

All,

If any of you have had previous interview experiences with the analyst position, could you please share some thoughts? I have a final found coming up in about a week. I am told that there will be an 1-hour modeling test but I don't really know what to expect. I'm not sure if an lbo model is likely since they do not exactly do buyouts - would be extremely grateful if someone could share some experiences here.

Also any general advice on the interview would be extremely helpful.

Thanks so much!

 
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I have seen some of their work. If i understood it correctly they fund infrastruce projects globally. The take equity stake or lend low interest loans, (sometimes grants). They usually do a full investment analsyis (DCF, EV/EBITDA, IRR, ROE, etc) and then track their investments during the cycle. They are very much a gov't investment bank. Good luck

 

Depending on the sector, there is a lot of lending in addition to equity investments. If you're interviewing for anything to do with power, energy or mining, a lot of the work done by the IFC is project finance where the debt side would focus on cash flow modeling.

 

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