Job Description
Business Function
Strategic Advisory is the M&A platform within DBS’ Corporate and Investment Bank. The team advises corporate and sponsor clients on mergers and acquisitions, divestments, strategic investments, and capital structuring across several key industry verticals. The team combines deep sector expertise with rigorous financial analysis to deliver independent, board‑level advice and execute complex transactions across Asia-Pacific.
Role Overview
We are hiring for a Senior Associate / AVP for the Strategic Advisory team supporting the Energy, Renewables and Infrastructure sector. The new hire will play a core role in the origination and execution of M&A transactions across the energy and infrastructure value chain. The role will have responsibility for owning key analytical workstreams, driving transaction processes, and engaging directly with clients and external advisors on live mandates.
Key Responsibilities
Transaction Execution & Advisory
- Support the execution of M&A, divestment, and capital raising transactions across the energy and infrastructure sector, including buyside and sellside mandates.
- Act as a key day‑to‑day execution resource on live transactions, coordinating workstreams and ensuring timely, high‑quality delivery of outputs to senior bankers and clients.
- Assist in transaction structuring, feasibility assessment, and evaluation of strategic alternatives, with clear articulation of valuation, risk, and commercial implications.
Financial Analysis & Modelling
- Own the development, review, and interpretation of complex financial models, including M&A valuation models, acquisition and hold‑co models, project finance models, and scenario/sensitivity analyses
- Translate financial outputs into clear insights and recommendations to support investment decisions, negotiations, and internal approvals.
Materials & Client Communication
- Prepare and review client‑facing materials, including investment memoranda, management presentations, and pitchbooks, ensuring clarity, analytical rigour, and consistency of messaging.
- Support senior bankers in client meetings, negotiations, and internal committee discussions by providing well‑structured analysis and concise explanations of key issues.
Due Diligence & Market Analysis
- Coordinate and review financial, commercial, and technical due diligence findings, integrating inputs from internal teams and external advisors into transaction analysis.
- Analyse asset‑level and portfolio‑level performance across energy and infrastructure assets, identifying key value drivers, risks, and potential optimisation opportunities.
- Conduct market, sector, and stakeholder analysis to identify potential sellers, buyers, and investors, informed by macro, regulatory, and sector developments.
Stakeholder & Process Management
- Work closely with external stakeholders including legal counsel, technical consultants, and regulators to support transaction execution and documentation.
- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams across overlapping transactions, maintaining delivery standards in fast‑paced and evolving deal environments.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Investment Management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in investment banking, strategic advisory, infrastructure M&A, or buy‑side roles; prior exposure to energy, renewables, or infrastructure transactions is preferred.
- Advanced financial modelling capability across debt and equity valuation, M&A, and capital structuring contexts, with strong attention to detail and analytical discipline.
- Solid understanding of deal structuring considerations, bankability, and risk allocation in energy and infrastructure transactions.
- Demonstrated ability to own analytical workstreams and contribute sound commercial judgment to transaction discussions.
- Ability to synthesise complex information, identify key issues, and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex analysis clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing transaction timelines and requirements.
- High proficiency in relevant software in Excel, PowerPoint, Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Factset.
- Strong intellectual curiosity and interest in the energy transition, infrastructure investment, and capital markets developments.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast‑moving transaction environments with high performance expectations.
- Collaborative, detail‑oriented, and committed to delivering high‑quality advisory outcomes.
