A leading energy company is looking for a Corporate and Project Finance Manager to join their team. The employee will primarily cover Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia but can be extended to other countries as well.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Management
- Manage the cash flows of the group at least on a monthly basis with proper cash reconciliation of amounts spent (per project and category) with 12 months cash forecasting
- Track actual spendings in detail by contract and project
Financial Modelling
- Develop and maintain financial model templates for all project types for each country and maintaining these, ensuring these are up to date based on latest assumptions
- Lead role in improving financial modelling and business planning skills including training of other Financial Analysts, and provide training materials as well as a process on how analysts are allocated to different projects based on a ticketing/ log filing system
- Analyse financial data and create financial models for decision support
- Ensure track changes and proper documentation for all financial models as per guidelines
- Maintain an updated project approval tracker with relevant financial models saved in project approval folders as well as entity folders
- Develope and maintain a consolidated financial modelling to calculate a portfolio return approved and actuals on at least a quarterly basis
- Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
- Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify actual deltas compared to approved IRRs; calculate monthly updated portfolio returns based on actual data
- Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analysing actual results with plans and forecasts including commenting of deltas
Project Approvals
- Perform Credit checks
- Lead in the preparation of project approvals for projects to be presented to the board of directors for decision (coordinate with other departments to obtain the information); key responsibilities include financial modelling (including scenarios)
- Project Performance Tracking
- Support in the capital budgeting/ cash forecast and capital expenditure planning processes
Reporting
- Lead the preparation of the monthly Planning and Reporting process to internal and external stakeholder; monthly MIS management and ensuring that the monthly management reporting (MIS)
- Support in the preparation of other committees (Investment Committee, Performance committee)
- Work closely with the accounting and FP&A team to ensure accurate financial reporting
- Preparation of professional presentations to Management and Shareholders
- Ensure that the quarterly Performance Committee management reporting is available at the end of the month following the reporting quarter; Lead the process of obtaining data from development team, CEO, COO and finance team, review and present to the Management team as well as the Company's investor(s);
- Playing a pivotal role in the preparation of budgets, forecasts, latest outlooks, etc
M&A
- Analyse M&A opportunities on feasibility
- Prepare relevant analysis and proposal to the Operating Unit Manager and the Investment Committee
- Support the M&A Department on M&A projects including end-to-end support for internal and external parties
Loan compliance
- Coordinate & execute the necessary requirements for loan disbursement from lenders and their various transaction advisors incl. technical, financial & legal
- Communicate with other departments to obtain deliverables to banks (reporting, CP, CS)
- Monthly tracking of each loan status and performance (drawn amounts, Cash Flows, DSCR etc)
- Provide relevant input for forecasting and business planning
- Provide quarterly updates on loan origination and loan compliance for the performance committee
- Making sure the Company follows the loan agreement in all aspects and is compliant at all times and reports to management ahead of any compliance risk and suggests proper mitigation measures
Project Finance
- Origination of Debt raising from onshore and offshore lender
- Dealing with lenders on due diligence, negotiations, documentation processing and managing compliance and reporting. Manage the overall relationship with lenders and advisors with proper time management on a daily basis as well as with other departments
- Term sheet negotiation with lenders
- Advising, drafting and executing the loan agreements & addendums
- Distribution forecasts for all projects while meeting the loan covenants
- Ensure compliant, smooth and fast drawdown of loans as per our business plan and forecast and if any deviation explain deltas to management
- Support in PPA negotiation with potential off-takers to ensure compliance with loan agreement
- Ensure for project approvals that financing assumptions in the financial model are realistic and that we already identified a lender for this project
