Portfolio Analyst - Singapore - Xora Innovation

Xora Innovation

Verified Company

Singapore

2 weeks ago

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Wei Jie

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ABOUT XORA INNOVATION

Xora Innovation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek, invests in disruptive, world-changing ventures forged by ambitious founders and powered by compelling scientific breakthroughs.

Headquartered in Singapore, Xora is an early-stage deep tech investing platform of Temasek. We are looking for individuals with creativity, intellect, passion, grit, curiosity, openness, and resilience.

ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Portfolio Analyst with strong financial analysis, modeling, and investment valuation skills.

Supporting the investment team, the Portfolio Analyst will take pride in facilitating intellectual honesty, discipline, and objectivity throughout our investment processes.

You will bring a highly analytic approach to your assignments (informed by both quantitative and qualitative inputs), and you'll look forward to opportunities to cogently defend and present your work.

This position requires you to work from the Company's headquarters in Singapore.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Investments/PortCo-Related

Assess the impact of new investment proposals on our existing forecast/plan, especially with respect to financial returns, stakeholder objectives, reserves, and cost of investment.
Working with investment principals, support the development of financial models and evaluation of portfolio company financials.
Track and report on actual performance against forecasts, flagging deviations and key developments driving revised forecast assumptions.

Valuation

With external expertise as needed, support pressure testing of assumptions behind valuation proposals developed by the investment team, ensuring that key risks have been priced into proposed valuations.
Serve as operational interface to external valuation firms (and auditors, as needed).
Track and report on external valuation against internal forecasts (at the portfolio company level and for the total portfolio), flagging deviations and assumptions/analyses driving deviations.

Corporate Level

Develop and maintain internal financial models for our investment portfolio atlarge, updating forecasts as required.
Support preparation of reports and presentations regarding financial and investment performancerelated indicators to key stakeholders.
Support quarterly assessments of investment processes and implement improvements, as necessary.
Identify crossportfolio synergies and value creation/enhancement opportunities.

Requirements:

PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Master's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or Accounting or other, ideally with a joint degree, minor, or certificate in a STEM discipline, from an accredited academic institution.
At least 2 years of work experience, ideally in a financial services setting.
Experience building financial models and investment valuation cases.
Highly developed analytical skills with ability to define issues, collect and analyze pertinent data, identify alternative solutions, forecast consequences of proposed actions, draw and articulate reasoned conclusions, propose sound recommendations and contingency plans, and implement realistic solutions in support of specified goals; simultaneous attention to the big picture and details is critical.
Intermediate level Excel skills (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, data validation, what if/sensitivity analysis, charts, etc.).
CFA Level 1 and 2 certifications are a big plus.
Ability to produce well designed, professional PowerPoint presentations.
Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills.