Associate - Southeast Asia

Location: Thailand
Job Type: Permanent
Discipline:
Salary: Negotiable
Contact: NextWave Partners
Email: email NextWave
Reference: BBBH5212_1634205365
Posted: over 2 years ago

Title: South and Southeast Asia Associate

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

About NextWave

NextWave Partners is the Recruitment Partner of choice within the Clean Energy, Sustainable Infrastructure, ESG, Impact Investment, Climate-Tech & Technology sectors. We are committed to supporting industries battling climate change towards a net-zero future and a sustainable economy.

About the role

We are currently working with an investment firm in the renewable and infrastructure sector. This company aims to provide advisory services in developing markets.

Responsibilities

  • Investment target: identification and screening

    • Use conventional and unconventional channels to identify and assess investment opportunities

    • For targets that are not yet investment-ready, be able to map out various methods and resources in order to achieve investability

    • Be able to articulate investment opportunities' social and environmental impact narratives

  • Investor identification and relationship building

    • Understand investor mandates, criteria, preferences, and existing portfolios

    • Understand investor appetite to work with DFIs or other development-oriented actors

    • Manage investor relationships

  • Detailed commercial due diligence / vendor due diligence

    • Directly conduct or facilitate investor ('buy-side') commercial due diligence

    • Compile and curate a comprehensive virtual data room

  • Robust, multi-faceted corporate and project finance models, including valuations, of private companies using rigorous, defensible methodologies

  • Draft investment memoranda and teasers, author and update sophisticated financial models

  • Recommendations on optimal transaction structures based upon near-, medium- and long-term company strategic objectives and capitalization parameters, available instruments and investor preferences

    • Draft detailed illustrative term sheets for debt and equity deals

  • Market assessment and ongoing market analysis

    • Conduct macroeconomic and geopolitical market assessments

    • Provide sector analysis of priority areas for investment

Requirements

  • 3-6 years of regional front-office experience in top tier investment banking, consulting, private equity or similar (SE Asia regional experience is non-negotiable)

  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced degrees will be regarded favorably

  • Strong familiarity with private capital markets origination (capital raising) and M&A transactions

  • Strong quantitative skills and corporate finance literacy; familiar with company evaluation and valuation, with an emphasis on private companies

  • Advanced proficiency in creating financial models in Microsoft Excel

  • Excellent analytical ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically, and design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues

  • Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments

  • Excellent presentation skills; ability to communicate clearly with diverse audiences, including those not familiar with business and finance topics

  • Impeccable spoken and written business English is a non-negotiable, and fluency in one or more regional languages is highly preferred

  • Demonstrated leadership skills, preferably in fast-moving and complex environments

  • Comfort with ambiguity; ability to operate autonomously in a changing context

  • Experience working with a range of stakeholders (including private equity firms, Development Finance Institutions, and development agencies) to support investments in high-impact sectors

Application
If you are interested in this position, please apply directly on the platform with your latest CV. We will review your application and revert back promptly.

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Our commitment
Diversity is a core value at NextWave Partners, and we are proud to be partnering with equal opportunities employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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