Finance Strategy Associate

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• Four years experience in Financial Modelling / Financial Analysis / Capital Raising either from corporate finance, private equity, venture company, or in-house corporate
  
• CFA Candidate (or qualified), Accountancy qualification or MBA preferred
  
• Strong financial analysis skills
  
• Strong organizational skills
  
• Has commitment to high-quality work product
  
• Ability to manage multiple work streams at one time
  
• Ability to think creatively and to be comfortable at ambiguity
  
• Ability to professionally interact with a wide range of individuals
  

The Finance Strategy Associate will be overseen by the Chief Finance Officer and working closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager and the Head of Finance & Accounting, but will be required to build relationships with individuals in each part of the business.

Financial Analysis

• Build, maintain and use financial models for use at Group and Company level for budgeting, business planning and capital raising uses
  
• Build, maintain and use other tools such as short-term cash flow forecasts, unit economics & pricing analysis, elasticity of demand studies
  
• In conjunction with the Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) team, undertake deep dive analysis into key components of unit economics such as credit loss and after sales
  
• Collaborate with the FP&A and Business Intelligence (“BI”) team on data shaping, analytics and developing forecasting models (e.g. leveraging IoT, payment and other data sources to support strategic decision-making and provide insights to customers and external stakeholders, or utilising FP&A software solutions).
  

Capital Raising

• Collaborate with the CFO in updating and executing the financing strategy
  
• Coordinate and track capital raising initiatives including equity / debt / grant / technical assistance capital raising processes
  
• Manage the development of key capital raise components such as financial model, investment memorandum, data rooms, market studies,DD workstreams and collaboration with external advisors
  
• Lead and manage related financing workstreams such as FX risk management
  

Business Development

• Provide finance support to business development initiatives regarding existing product pricing, new product offerings (e.g. carbon revenues, insurance, warranty extension, refurbished sales, customer portal/marketplace platform), and new markets (e.g. formation of subsidiaries in new markets) to develop the business case for these initiatives, set pricing and raise capital.
  

Reporting

• Prepare, in conjunction with the FP&A Manager, stakeholder reports relating to the company's financial, operation and impact performance (Board, shareholders, lenders, grant providers, partners)
  

Other

• Collaborate with CFO in corporate governance (board management), and risk management activities