Senior Manager Corporate Finance, FTC 6 month

Overview

This role is responsible for managing and executing corporate financing activities for the Group Treasury function, with a focus on leveraged finance, asset-backed financing, and financial risk management.

Reporting to the Group Treasurer, the Senior Manager Corporate Finance supports the development and execution of the Group’s funding and capital structure strategy. The position includes significant involvement in managing the Group’s Term Loan B and other debt facilities, asset-backed financing programmes, and refinancing and financing transactions.

The role combines technical financial analysis with hands-on transaction execution and involves close collaboration with banks, lenders, investors, rating agencies, legal advisors, and other external stakeholders, as well as internal teams including Finance, Legal, Tax, FP&A, Accounting, and business stakeholders across the Group.

Responsibilities

Corporate Finance & Capital Structure

• Support the Group Treasurer in developing and executing the Group’s financing and capital structure strategy.
• Manage and monitor the Group’s debt portfolio, including the Term Loan B, revolving credit facilities, centrally managed asset financing facilities, and other local financing arrangements.
• Support evaluation and execution of refinancing, repricing, debt add-ons, amendments, extensions, and other financing transactions.
• Prepare detailed analysis of capital structure, leverage, funding requirements, financing capacity, and alternative sources of funding.
• Evaluate financing alternatives and prepare financial analysis and recommendations for senior management.
• Support assessment of the impact of financing transactions on leverage, liquidity, cash flow, credit metrics, and the Group’s overall financial position.
• Monitor compliance with financial covenants, incurrence tests, baskets, and other relevant provisions under the Group’s financing documentation.
• Support the Group Treasurer in managing relationships with rating agencies and debt investors.

Asset-Backed Financing & Structured Finance

• Lead and support development, implementation, and ongoing management of the Group’s asset-backed financing programmes.
• Manage the Group’s receivables securitisation and other asset-backed financing structures, including relationships with banks, funding partners, insurers, and service providers.
• Evaluate opportunities to expand and optimize asset-backed financing across additional markets, entities, and asset classes.
• Analyze advance rates, eligibility criteria, concentration limits, funding costs, credit enhancement, liquidity impact, and other key structural parameters.
• Coordinate onboarding of new entities and jurisdictions into existing financing programmes.
• Monitor utilization, available capacity, funding costs, and performance of asset-backed financing facilities.
• Identify opportunities to optimize the Group’s overall funding mix through increased use of asset-backed and structured financing.
• Support development of new financing structures, including equipment, receivables, and other asset-backed financing opportunities.

Governance, Controls & Compliance

• Ensure financing and risk management activities operate within Group policies, delegated authorities, and approved risk parameters.
• Maintain and continuously improve financing, debt management, and financial risk management policies and procedures.
• Monitor compliance with financing documentation, covenants, reporting requirements, and other lender obligations.
• Maintain accurate records of debt facilities, financing terms, hedging instruments, collateral, and related documentation.
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place around financing transactions and derivative activities.
• Prepare regular reporting on debt, financing capacity, leverage, financial risk, and covenant compliance for senior management.

Financial Risk Management

• Support the Group’s financial risk management activities, including interest rate and foreign exchange risk.
• Ensure financing and hedging activities remain aligned with the Group’s risk appetite, capital structure objectives, and financing documentation.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in corporate finance, treasury, leveraged finance, investment banking, structured finance, or a related field.
• Proven experience in debt financing, capital structure analysis, and financing transaction execution.
• Experience with asset-backed financing, securitisation, receivables financing, or other structured financing solutions is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of financial risk management, including interest rate and foreign exchange risk and hedging instruments.
• Practical experience with execution and management of financial market transactions, including derivatives and hedging instruments, is highly desirable.
• Advanced financial modelling and analytical capabilities, including ability to build and review complex financing and scenario models.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, leverage metrics, cash flow analysis, and corporate finance principles.
• Experience working with banks, lenders, rating agencies, investors, and external advisors.
• Strong commercial understanding, including ability to assess financing alternatives and their impact on the Group.
• Excellent project management skills, including ability to manage complex transactions involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills, including ability to communicate effectively with senior management and external counterparties.
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and structured, with strong focus on execution and delivery.
• Highly proactive, pragmatic, and solution-oriented, with ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Strong work ethic with willingness to take ownership and accountability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• High proficiency in spoken and written English as the corporate language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional qualifications such as CFA, ACT, CTP, ACA, ACCA, or similar.

Compensation & Benefits

Not specified.

Location

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