Manager, Capital Markets & Investor Relations (CONTRACT)

ESR is a leading Asia-Pacific real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate, data centres, and energy infrastructure that power the digital economy and supply chain for investors, customers, and communities. Through our fully integrated real asset fund management and development platform, we strive to create value and growth opportunities for our global portfolio of investors. We offer our customers modern space solutions to realise their ambitions across Australia and New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Greater China, Southeast Asia, and India, including a presence in Europe.

TREASURY FUNCTION (80%)

• Leading and overseeing treasury related transactions and all loan transactions for the REIT, in accordance with listed company regulatory requirements
• Manage the company's capital structure, optimizing the mix of equity and debt financing, advising on capital allocation decisions to maximize shareholder value
• Negotiate terms and structure loan execution, negotiation and documentation ensuring terms are in the best interest of unitholders
• Main liaison person working with other professional advisors including lawyers, bankers, auditors, SGX/ CDP/ regulatory bodies to successfully execute transactions from identification, negotiation, execution and settlement
• Identify, monitoring and planning of financial risks, (eg. currency fluctuations, interest rate risks, and market volatility), providing treasury related monitoring, analysis and execution; providing insights and solution recommendations to management on treasury matters
• Prepare treasury reports and financial statements/ presentations to management and the Board to ensure financial metrics (e.g., loan covenants and regulatory requirements) are met
• Participate in the annual budgeting process, collaborating with department heads to develop comprehensive budgets that align with organizational goals and priorities
• Monitoring / researching market trends in industrial / logistic asset class, including major transactions, sector trends, players and issues, etc.
• Maintain strong relationships with other professional advisors, including lawyers, bankers, auditors etc.

INVESTOR RELATIONS (20%)

• Lead communication and strategy to build strong relationships with investors, analysts, and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and maximizing shareholder value through effective communication and engagement, in particular:
• Institutional investors – engagement and outreach (conference / 1-on-1 meetings); expanding new geographies; increasing proportion of institutional investors
• Family offices – regular engagement and outreach to increase proportion in register
• Sell-side Research Analysts – consistent engagement and guidance to ensure actual financials are in line with consensus analyst forecasts; increase analyst coverage houses
• Remisiers – regular engagement and outreach to the various remisier houses to ensure remisiers are well equipped to speak to their clients
• Responsible for maintaining and updating of REIT’s presentation deck which are public documents, including ensuring its accuracy and sign-offs from various stakeholders
• Regular unitholding analysis and strategies on strengthening shareholding register, including engagement with shareholding analysis providers like Orient Capital
• Increase inclusion of the REIT into various indices – Target selected indices to get the REIT on, in order to increase stock liquidity and share price
• Organise CSR initiatives, in line with CSR policies and Group
• Organise analyst calls / briefings on results
• Organise investor meetings/ conferences with banks/ investor associations (such as REITAS, SIAS) to reach out to investors
• Perform other ad-hoc projects that may be assigned to you from time to time.

Educational Background:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field

Experience:

• Proven experience in treasury, and investor relations, or a similar role for about 4 years
• Familiar with REIT regulations, listed company regulations including the CIS Code and Takeover Code
• CFMAS licensed individuals are preferred
• Familiarity with financial markets and investment strategies.

Skills:

• Excellent communication, PowerPoint and presentation/ positioning skills
• Proficiency in treasury/ fundraising execution and management
• Ability to engage and build relationships with institutional investors, family offices, analysts, and remisiers
• Strong analytical skills for performing treasury analysis and developing strategies
• Organizational skills to manage CSR/sustainability initiatives and analyst calls/briefings

Attributes:

• Proactive and self-motivated
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Detail-oriented and capable of working under pressure