Senior Analyst
Naseba
Total years of experience :7 years, 3 Months
Primary Responsibilities
• Maintaining relationships with Naseba’s network of investors, and building relationships with investors in new markets
• Preparing internal research reports for business analysts and sales teams to identify potential clients
• Onboarding of clients who are raising capital and providing advice in preparation to be introduced to investors
• Hiring and mentoring of junior analysts
• Developing, overseeing, and executing projects to improve the division
Achievements
• Developed a strategy roadmap & turnaround plan, identifying key points for improvement & actionable objectives
• Created operational capabilities for the division whilst reducing administrative time & workload for analysts by implementing a new module in Microsoft Dynamics CRM to make investor mandates easily recordable & searchable
• Implemented a scoring system to assess the investment suitability of clients, which led to better identification of suitable clients, improved development of investment narratives, and the ability to provide effective investor and client feedback
• Developed a partnership framework to quickly and flexibly develop working relationships with professional firms that can provide services of synergistic value such as lawyers, accountants, and corporate advisors
• Eliminated confusion & misplacement of client documents by sourcing a low-cost solution to deposit & keep track of client documents, handle multiple revisions & versions, and keep track of investor views
• Built eminence & credibility for the division by convincing more than half the division to author weekly articles relating to the latest trends in investment, economy, and technology
• Built relationships & captured mandates for 40 Japanese investors, a market that Naseba has been struggling to infiltrate
• Redeveloped the marketing collateral for the division that clarified the service offering
Primary Responsibilities
• Overseeing and executing all directives related to corporate finance for the group
• Sourcing, evaluation, analysis, and structuring of investment, co-investment, and joint-venture opportunities
• Preparation of comprehensive investment documentation for marketing, reference, and due diligence
• Coordinating with institutional investors on enhanced due diligence processes following ILPA standards
• Liaising, coordinating, and negotiating with regulators and professional service providers such as tax advisors, auditors, lawyers, fund administrators, and company secretaries across multiple jurisdictions
Achievements
• Developed group standards and processes for investment, risk management, corporate governance, and integrity
• Negotiated transaction and rights for an Indonesian JV to develop a 28, 000 Ha forestry concession, and developed the investment, operations, and trading structure for the JV
• Developed from scratch the group’s first PE fund to develop sustainable forestry assets and raised USD 10m
• Developed an investment structure and documentation for an in-house biotech/tissue culture startup and raised SGD 3m
Primary Responsibilities
• Originating, screening, and performing due diligence for investment opportunities
• Coordinating investment process including legal, accounting, and other corporate aspects
• Offer ongoing guidance to investees in the areas of strategy, operations, and corporate finance
• Establish KPIs and monitor progress of portfolio investments
Achievements
• Set up and ran a venture capital investment office
• Led investment rounds into 4 startups at seed stage, of which 1 is now profitable
• Set up an incubator for startups to have access to business-critical office & administrative facilities
Client: Weida - publicly listed home-grown diversified conglomerate
Project: Disposal of plantations business to TH Plantations for a consideration in excess of MYR 300m
• Guided the client to negotiate and review the sale and purchase agreements
• Drafted the public announcement of the proposed disposal for posting on the Malaysia Stock Exchange
• Assisted the client to meet the conditions precedent stipulated in the agreements, which included obtaining various consents from banks and authorities, and shareholder approval
Client: Tele Flow Corporation - provider of telecommunication infrastructure in Malaysia
Project: MYR 50m financing through Islamic term loans
• Prepared loan application, structure, pro-forma cash flow, and information memo for banks’ lending officers
• Obtained competing letters of offer from two multinational banks
Client: FELDA Group - over 80 subsidiaries in the agribusiness sector with operations across the world
Project: Shared services implementation
• Transformation of Finance, HR, and Admin functions as part of a modernisation requirement for their IPO
• Developed the chargeback and governance model, and implemented a per-transaction charging model, a first for shared service centres in Malaysia
Client: Khazanah Nasional - Malaysian national investment fund with strategic investments in various industries
Project: Pre-acquisition business and commercial assessment
• Conducted a market feasibility study
• Analysed business operations & key people for post-acquisition integration planning
Client: Koperasi Permodalan Felda - investment vehicle under the FELDA group in Malaysia
Project: Multiple investment proposal reviews
• Conducted a feasibility study of a joint-venture to enter the agrifoods industry
• Conducted a feasibility study of a joint-venture to manufacture and market a FMCG product internationally
Client: Tradewinds Corporation - Malaysian conglomerate in the food and plantation industries
Project: Developing a masterplan for a free industrial zone (“FIZ”)
• Conducted study to create a ‘Rubber City’ in the North of Malaysia acting as a regional hub for the industry
• Projected key socio-economic indicators for the Malaysian government to grant certain government policies and fiscal relief within the FIZ
Client: Baron Capital Partners - venture-capital fund based in Malaysia
Project: Feasibility study for renewable energy installations
• Assessed the possibility of developing Solar, Hydro, and Biomass energy installations in Malaysia considering new legislation and introduction of Feed-in-Tariffs
• Conducted a technology review, determined the various levelised costs of energy, and computed Monte-Carlo simulations to assess likely profitability against the tariffs
A-Level: 3As in Mathematics, Physics, and Biology; B in Economics