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Raya Holding for Financial Investments is hiring a Head (Investments & Investor Relations).
What will you do?
1- Strategic Investment Leadership (Value Creation):
- Develop and implement a comprehensive investment strategy aligned with the Raya’s goals and risk appetite.
- Provide strategic guidance to the executive team on market trends, investment opportunities, and potential risks; and regularly reporting to management regarding performance and peer comparative data.
- Implement proactive strategies to maximize portfolio companies’ valuations, returns and mitigate risks.
- Develop with the CFO the annual Holdco/Opco investment goals/targets aligning with strategic direction.
- Provide strategic leadership in investment decisions, recommending critical choices that drive the growth and performance of Raya’s investment portfolio.
- Oversee Raya’s investment portfolio, optimizing performance and ensuring alignment with investment targets.
2-M&A and Transaction Management:
- Lead the identification and evaluation of various investment opportunities, including acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and other development projects.
- Lead the process of conducting thorough due diligence, financial analysis, and risk assessments for potential investments; and lead-on till successful closing.
- Manage and coordinate between a wide-array of advisors, bankers and management consultants to lead through effective M&A deals’ management and closing.
3- Relationship Management with Key Investment Stakeholders:
- Effectively communicate investment strategies, performance updates, and market insights to internal stakeholders, investors, board of directors and partners/minority investors within portfolio companies.
- Oversight on the entire group-wide IR and Investment functions, to ensure compliance to policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and best practices in IR & investment.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with partners, bankers, brokers, regulators, and other key stakeholders.
What will you need?
Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance Field
- Technical Certification is preferred (e.g. CFA, CMA, CPM, &/or CPA)
Professional Experience:
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- 5 years of management experience
Technical Skills:
Functional level:
- Excellent writing and reporting skills
- Excellent level of financial analysis and principles
- Excellent understanding of financial valuation and corporate finance concepts.
- High level of concern for quality and accuracy in all work
- Excellent awareness of different budget and planning strategies and tactics
Business level:
- Excellent research skills to be updated with the market changes
- Full awareness of Raya business code of conduct
- Full awareness of Raya group diversified portfolio
Interpersonal Skills:
- Strategic Thinking
- Operations Development
- Influencing Others
- Developing Successors
- Customer Centricity
What is unique about Raya?
- Are you an eager learner? Raya believes in its employees, so we aim to continuously provide learning & development plans for all of our employees to ensure their personal and career development.
- Are you looking for career progression? Raya is an entity where you can grow whether horizontally or vertically as we offer internal transfer opportunities.
- Are you looking for a rewarding environment? Raya's top achievers are awarded annually with an international 5 days trip.
- Are you looking for an opportunity to give back to the community? Raya encourages their employees to give back to the community through different ongoingCSR programs and initiatives.
- Are you a foodie? Exclusive discounts for Raya employees at Raya’s Restaurants.
