Main Function
The Portfolio Manager will play a pivotal role in managing, optimizing, and expanding the investment and operational portfolio. This individual will oversee the strategic growth, financial performance, risk management, and operational effectiveness of subsidiaries and projects, ensuring alignment with the broader corporate vision and profitability targets.
As the primary strategic liaison between subsidiary businesses, project teams, and executive management, success will be measured by maximizing value creation, ensuring exceptional operational performance, managing risks proactively, and achieving financial and strategic KPIs across the entire portfolio.
Role Responsibilities
Portfolio Oversight and Strategy:
- Develop and implement portfolio management strategies aligned with long-term business objectives.
- Regularly review performance; identify growth, restructuring, and divestment opportunities.
- Lead strategic initiatives for new business opportunities, due diligence, negotiations, and integration of new ventures.
Financial Analysis and Performance Management:
- Establish, track, and analyze portfolio-wide KPIs to ensure consistent achievement of growth, profitability, and strategic objectives.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual portfolio reviews with insights, risks, and recommended actions for senior management.
- Collaborate with subsidiary MDs and CFOs to manage financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cash-flow strategies.
Risk and Compliance Management:
- Proactively identify portfolio-level risks (financial, operational, regulatory, market) and develop mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with governance policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards across the portfolio.
- Regularly update senior management on emerging risks and compliance issues, recommending necessary actions.
Operational Excellence and Business Support:
- Facilitate operational synergies across portfolio companies (resource-sharing, cross-selling, knowledge exchange).
- Provide strategic and operational support to subsidiary MDs to enable effective decision-making and goal attainment.
- Drive a culture of operational excellence and accountability, ensuring adherence to defined standards and performance benchmarks.
Stakeholder and Investor Relations:
- Serve as a key liaison with investors, strategic partners, financial institutions, and regulatory bodies.
- Maintain clear, transparent communication to ensure stakeholder alignment and protect organizational interests.
- Prepare and deliver investor reports, presentations, and strategic updates to leadership and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Management, Engineering, or a related field required.
- An MBA or CFA certification is strongly preferred.
Experience
- Minimum of 7-10 years in investment management, corporate strategy, private equity, or related roles, preferably within a multi-company or holding-company structure.
- Proven track record in managing diverse business portfolios, demonstrating strong financial acumen, strategic insight, and operational effectiveness.
- Extensive experience in due diligence, deal structuring, portfolio integration, and value creation in growth-stage companies.
Skills and Attributes
Skills:
- Exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Strategic thinker with proven capacity to identify growth opportunities, manage risks, and solve complex business problems.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring abilities; proven experience influencing teams and managing senior-level relationships.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and thrive in a dynamic, results-focused environment.
Personal Attributes:
- Highly entrepreneurial, proactive, and motivated self-starter.
- Resilient, resourceful, with a positive and growth-oriented mindset.
- Ethical, dependable, and committed to the highest standards of integrity.
- Collaborative leader with exceptional influencing and relationship-building abilities.
Benefits and Compensation
- Highly competitive remuneration, including performance-linked incentives and bonuses.
- Health insurance coverage, pension contributions, and additional employee benefits.
- Professional development opportunities and exposure to diverse, high-impact projects
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