Key Responsibilities
1. Corporate Finance Strategy & Capital Structure
- Develop and execute the company's capital structure strategy, ensuring optimal leverage, liquidity, and cost of capital.
- Lead financial planning to support long-term business growth, new investments, and portfolio expansion.
- Assess financing alternatives (debt, equity, hybrid instruments) and recommend the optimal capital sources.
- Coordinate with rating agencies on credit rating maintenance and information disclosure.
2. Funding, Bank Negotiation & Financial Partnerships
- Lead negotiations with banks and financial institutions to secure funding deals, including structuring loan packages and negotiating commercial terms.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Relationship Managers and key banking partners.
- Manage Project Finance for real estate developments, ensuring compliance with loan terms and optimal project cash flow.
- Oversee Funding Deals, restructuring loan facilities when necessary.
3. Capital Market & Debt Issuance
- Lead end-to-end processes for bond issuance, including determining terms & conditions, pricing strategy, documentation, and regulatory filing.
- Work closely with securities companies, arrangers, and underwriters for debt capital market transactions.
- Explore and execute innovative funding options such as subordinated bonds, perpetual bonds, or hybrid instruments.
- Monitor market movements, interest rates, and investor appetite in bond and equity capital markets.
4. Project Finance Operations & Financial Control
- Oversee Construction Cost control, project disbursement planning, and project-level financial monitoring.
- Review and negotiate financial and commercial terms within project-related contracts.
- Ensure financial compliance related to covenants, reporting, and bank requirements.
- Lead feasibility studies, financial modeling, and consolidated financial statement review for investment decision-making.
5. Real Estate Investment Vehicles
- Manage and evaluate opportunities involving REITs, property funds, JV structures, and asset monetization strategies.
- Work with legal, project, and asset management teams to structure transactions that maximize value.
6. Investor Relations
- Oversee Investor Relations strategy, ensuring transparent communication of business performance, financial results, and corporate direction.
- Conduct analyst briefings, investor meetings, and provide market insights to senior management.
7. Others Key Responsibilities
- Lead Treasury Management, including cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, and investment strategies.
- Conduct Risk Management relating to financial exposure, interest rates, FX risk, and debt maturity profiles.
- Develop internal financial policies and governance frameworks to support corporate compliance.
- Evaluate M&A opportunities, joint ventures, land acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.
- Provide financial leadership to cross-functional teams (Legal, Development, Construction, PMO, Accounting).
- Prepare financial scenarios, sensitivity analysis, and stress tests for executive-level decision making.
- Support CFO in board presentations, financial strategy discussions, and corporate-level approvals.
- Optimize company-wide capital allocation to maximize ROI and shareholder value.
Job Qualifications
- 1215+ years of experience in Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Capital Market, or Investment Banking, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Strong experience in real estate development or related capital-intensive industries.
- Proven track record in debt issuance, bank negotiation, and structuring complex financial deals.
- Strong understanding of loan structures, bond markets, and financial products (senior debt, mezzanine, perpetual, hybrid instruments).
- Expertise in Financial Analysis, Planning, Operations, Feasibility Studies, Consolidated Financial Statements, and Financial Modeling.
- Excellent negotiation skills, especially in commercial terms.
- Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent English communication (written & spoken).
- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision and hands-on execution.
- Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to maintain influential relationships with banks, investors, and financial partners.
- Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working under pressure.
