Associate / Senior Associate, Enterprise Development (Singapore) (10309)

Associate / Senior Associate - Enterprise Development (Singapore)

The Enterprise Development (ED) team serves as a development engine, going beyond investing for growth to building for growth.

Its overall objective is to build new platforms, rejuvenate businesses and realise synergies from a connected portfolio through projects that will foster coordination and collaboration among our portfolio companies.

ED is supported by the following to fulfil its objectives

• Build new businesses - Building platforms to address trends / disruptive opportunities
• Transform existing businesses - Merger and/or Acquisition of capabilities for portfolio companies
• Enable businesses - Enabling businesses through creating funding sources and shared services

The team focuses on mapping our future business value chain; staying abreast with innovation and macro business trends; and identifying and developing new business enterprises that have the potential to be global, regional or domestic champions. We are looking to hire individuals with a strong passion to be in the business of building, transforming and growing companies.

Individual is expected to:

1. Work closely with and enhance existing portfolio/platform companies, including

• Identifying and executing investment and M&A opportunities
• Enhancing business development strategies
• Enhancing connectivity to the wider Temasek ecosystem

1. Support the building of selected sector platforms from greenfield, brownfield and/or acquisition opportunities
2. Be involved in Identifying / capitalizing on new trends for investment i.e.

• Evaluation of the commercial viability and relevance of potential investments
• Developing investment theses and conducting due diligence
• Executing on investment opportunities

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Conduct market research, due diligence and perform industry / company analysis
• Assist in the creation of strategic and execution plans for platforms; work with companies to refine business development strategies
• Participate in the process of identifying and assessing investment opportunities spanning across several sub-sectors.
• Building detailed financial models and analyzing financial statements to evaluate investment and M&A opportunities
• Evaluating, undertaking due diligence, closing investments as well as ongoing support of and performance monitoring of platform / portfolio companies
• Prepare internal reports, business cases and proposals for internal review and investment / divestment approvals
• Establishing and cultivating relationships with companies, corporate partners, industry stakeholders and other relevant institutions.
• Portfolio monitoring including tracking performance, identifying areas of engagement, capital deployment, portfolio allocation and returns
• Support on institution-wide projects as required

Candidate profile:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, STEM
• Ideally between 1 to 3 years working experience in consulting, corporate finance, M&A or investment research firm.
• Analytical and curious mind: Able to glean insights from data; keen to learn about new industries and business models
• Interested in building enterprises and developing project management skills
• Able to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty
• Collegial and collaborative team player
• Self-starter who is able to manage multiple priorities and to work independently
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Background in Programming and/or CFA (level 1) / MBA will be advantageous