Manager - Transaction Structuring

Job Purpose

The job holder is responsible for leading and managing the development and evaluation of investment strategies across airlines, cargo, logistics, and commercial sectors, ensuring alignment with KSIADC’s growth objectives through detailed financial assessments, scenario simulations, and performance tracking, while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and risk mitigation in investment practices.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Financial Investment

• Provide support to relevant KSIADC functions in the development of investment strategies across airlines, cargo and logistics, and commercial sectors, focusing on financial priorities that align with KSIADC’s growth objectives
• Develop and standardize templates, guidelines, procedures, and criteria for evaluating potential investments in the airline, cargo, logistics, and commercial sectors, ensuring consistency and alignment with organizational goals
• Define specific KPIs and financial performance metrics for each investment initiative to track success and ensure alignment with KSIADC’s broader strategic objectives
• Establish a financial analysis methodology that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative criteria to assess the viability of airline, cargo, logistics, and commercial investments, ensuring comprehensive decision-making
• Develop a standardized framework to guide financial assessments, ensuring all evaluations adhere to best practices and regulatory requirements, and provide a clear basis for investment decisions
• Build detailed financial models for each investment opportunity, projecting cash flows, returns, risks, and other financial metrics, providing a solid foundation for decision-making across sectors
• Simulate various investment scenarios to assess financial impact and support decision-making, enabling KSIADC to anticipate potential outcomes and select the most beneficial investments
• Conduct thorough financial assessments for potential investments in airlines, cargo, logistics, and commercial sectors, ensuring alignment with KSIADC’s strategic objectives and growth plans
• Perform due diligence to validate the feasibility and credibility of each investment opportunity, ensuring financial risks are mitigated and the investments are aligned with KSIADC’s long-term goals
• Document findings from due diligence activities, supporting informed decision-making, identifying potential risks, and ensuring investments are financially sound and in line with strategic objectives
• Review the performance of investments by comparing actual results with initial projections, measuring success, and providing insights for continuous improvement in investment strategies
• Identify deviations from expected financial performance and conduct root-cause analyses, proposing corrective actions and adjustments to optimize future investment outcomes
• Monitor investments against pre-set budgetary targets and timelines, ensuring financial milestones are met and maintaining financial discipline across all sectors
• Track financial performance of investments, ensuring that they align with agreed terms and budgets, and providing regular reports to key stakeholders to keep them informed of progress
• Ensure final investment reports are documented, detailing the status of each investment and archiving lessons learned for future reference, enhancing future investment decision-making processes

Policies, Processes and Procedures

• Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
• Help in solving escalated problems and provide needed support for junior team to ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure cases/issues are closed properly

People Management

• Train junior staff on the different job activities to ensure transfer of know-how, when applicable
• Support junior staff or direct reports in order to execute their duties according to set policies and processes

Job Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in similar role or equivalent is required
• Minimum 5 years of experience in similar role or equivalent
• Master’s degree in similar role or equivalent is preferred