If you’re a banking and finance lawyer looking for your next move, these career opportunities with Afreximbank might interest you. CA Finance is recruiting on behalf of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for nine roles across its Banking Legal Services division and these are genuinely rare opportunities to work at the heart of African trade finance.
Who is Afreximbank?
Afreximbank is the Trade Finance Bank for Africa. Established in Abuja, Nigeria in 1993 by African governments, African private and institutional investors, and non-African financial institutions, the Bank exists to finance, promote and expand intra-African and extra-African trade. It commenced operations in 1994 and is headquartered in Cairo, with branch offices in Harare, Abuja and Abidjan, and an East Africa branch in the works.
Afreximbank holds credit ratings of BBB+ (GCR), Baa1 (Moody’s) and BBB- (Fitch), and its Charter has now been signed by 50 African countries. It sits at the centre of some of the continent’s most consequential economic developments, including the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the single largest free trade area in the world by number of participating countries, and a project set to reshape how Africa trades with itself and the rest of the world.
Why these Career Opportunies with Afreximbank matter if you’re a lawyer
Working at Afreximbank means working on deals and mandates that actually move the needle on African development: project finance for infrastructure, asset finance for industrialisation, export development transactions, and intra-African trade structures that support the AfCFTA vision. It’s multilateral institution work with the technical depth of a top banking practice, the mission of a development finance institution, and the international reach of a Pan-African organisation with the ear of 50 heads of state. Few institutions offer that combination and even fewer offer it with Afreximbank’s balance sheet and credit standing behind it.
For a banking and finance lawyer, this is the kind of role that reshapes a CV: sophisticated, cross-border, high-value transactions, at an institution with a genuine developmental mandate.
The Roles We’re Recruiting For
We’re hiring across three legal practice areas within Afreximbank’s Banking Legal Services division, Project, Asset Finance and Export Development; Banking & Finance (Anglophone and Francophone) and Intra-African Trade, Asset and Corporate Finance Manager, Assistant Manager and Senior Analyst/Legal Analyst level.
Project, Asset Finance and Export Development
- Manager, Banking Legal Services (Project, Asset Finance and Export Development) Contact Shearidan Pearman: spearman@caglobalint.com
- Assistant Manager, Banking Legal Services (Project, Asset Finance and Export Development) Contact Caleb Ebrahim: cebrahim@caglobalint.com
- Senior Analyst, Banking Legal Services (Project Finance) Contact Jayde Harty: jharty@caglobalint.com
Banking & Finance
- Manager, Banking Legal Services (Banking & Finance) – Anglophone Contact Shearidan Pearman: spearman@caglobalint.com
- Manager, Banking Legal Services (Banking & Finance) – Francophone Contact Shearidan Pearman: spearman@caglobalint.com
- Assistant Manager, Banking Legal Services (Banking & Finance) – Francophone Contact Justin Peach: jpeach@caglobalint.com
Intra-African Trade, Asset and Corporate Finance
- Manager, Banking Legal Services (Intra African Trade & Asset Finance) Contact Shearidan Pearman: spearman@caglobalint.com
- Assistant Manager, Banking Legal Services (Intra African Trade & Corporate Finance) Contact Lara Joubert: ljoubert@caglobalint.com
- Senior Legal Analyst, Banking Legal Services (Intra African Trade & Corporate Finance) Contact Lara Joubert: ljoubert@caglobalint.com
How to Apply
Reach out directly to the consultant listed against the role you’re interested in or explore the full list of live opportunities on the CA Finance Africa jobs page. You may upload your cv here.
Our consultants have placed candidates into Afreximbank before, and the feedback we hear back is consistent: people who make this move don’t just gain a new employer, they gain exposure to transactions and mandates that simply aren’t available anywhere else on the continent. Watching candidates grow into these roles, take on bigger mandates, and build careers they couldn’t have built elsewhere is exactly why we keep coming back to recruit for this institution.
If you’re a Francophone or Anglophone banking and finance lawyer with project finance, asset finance, trade finance or export development experience, this is a rare chance to bring your skills to one of Africa’s most important financial institutions.