Senior Associate Corporate Finance at Sabi

Job Summary

As a Senior Corporate Finance Associate, you will take on a unique, exciting, and impactful combination of challenges in four main areas: corporate finance transactions, embedded finance strategy execution, investor relations and management reporting. You will support the team in strategic financial planning, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial modeling, and analysis. This role will play a key part in driving the company's financial strategy and decision-making processes, providing critical insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

What you will be doing

Equity and debt capital raising:

• Lead financial modelling work-streams, virtual data room preparation, and transaction-related corporate filings work-streams
• Prepare transaction documentation including but not limited to information memorandum, teasers, and management presentations
• Support due diligence activities for fundraising and potential acquisitions explored by the business from time to time
• Provide support in engaging investors, negotiations with investors and the preparation of legal documentation
• Support post-deal management activities (covenant compliance, etc.)

Investor relations, governance and reporting:

• Respond to investor-specific reporting and information needs
• Coordinate the preparation of pre-meeting board packs
• Support company secretarial duties in managing Sabi’s corporate governance structure, including managing the corporate calendar.

Embedded Finance and Business Intelligence:

• Collaborate with the finance control team for the preparation of investor reporting, annual budgets, and quarterly management reports on performance against the budget
• Liaise with the business intelligence team to develop and manage robust performance monitoring metrics/dashboards, including monthly financial and non-financial KPIs and cohort analysis
• Develop and produce business intelligence, including reporting on non-financial KPIs such as impact reports
• Support any financial planning outside of the regular budget cycle
• Liaise with all other business units to challenge the status quo, implement new ideas, investigate and implement more efficient solutions and processes.

Others:

• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards, including accounting principles, tax laws, and corporate policies.
• Assist in the development and execution of corporate finance strategies, including capital structure optimization, liquidity management, and investment strategies.
• Support end-to-end M&A processes, including due diligence, financial analysis, valuation, deal structuring, and negotiation

Special Skills and Qualifications

• Between 4-6 years of relevant experience, preferably in one or all of the following areas: (Transactional) Corporate finance or VC/PE, Investment Banking, and/or Financial / Deals Advisory experience.
• Strong quantitative skills; familiar with company evaluation and valuation
• Financial modeling, financial analysis, and valuation experience
• Ability to take initiative with research and analysis and produce valuable results in conditions of uncertainty.
• Excellent problem-solving ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically with limited supervision, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues
• Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and database skills
• Excellent presentation and communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
• Financial services and/or Fintech experience will be a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance or other business-related field

Candidate Specification

• Motivated by the mission of Sabi
• Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
• Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
• A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
• Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself.