Job Description

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:

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

Support the building of selected sector platforms from greenfield, brownfield and/or acquisition opportunities

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

Temasek