Financial Analysis & Valuation Role

Role Overview: Financial Analysis & Valuation is the Groups technical custodian of financial models, valuation opinions and investor analytics. The role produces and defends the quantitative substance behind a gross programme portfolio of approximately USD 50.7 billion and a base sum-of-the-parts Group Enterprise Valuation of USD 16.5 billion, supporting the Q4 2027 IPO, the USD 5 billion Green Wakala Sukuk programme and all project-level fund raising. The postholder is expected to hold the CFA charter and to apply institutional-standard rigour, documentation and auditability to every number that leaves the Group. Key Responsibilities: Financial Modelling: - Build, maintain and version-control the Group and programme-level financial models, including the ten-year ESMH operating model and the models supporting the Florida, Portugal, Botswana, Paraguay and Thailand programmes. - Apply and maintain best-practice model architecture: clear input / calculation / output separation, no hard-coding in formulas, full audit trail, error-check panels, and documented assumption sources. - Model the Groups Ecosystem Flywheel revenue architecture through to consolidated revenue, EBITDA, cash flow and returns. - Construct project finance and debt structuring modules: drawdown and repayment schedules, sukuk profit rate profiles, DSCR and LLCR covenant testing, and funding waterfall logic. - Run scenario, sensitivity and Monte Carlo analysis on occupancy pace, capex escalation, carbon price, discount rate, FX and offtake assumptions; present tornado and break-even outputs. Valuation and Analysis: - Prepare and update the Group Enterprise Valuation and the underlying programme valuation reports, applying the Groups blended methodology of sum-of-the-parts, discounted cash flow and IPO-implied approaches. - Derive and evidence discount rates (WACC, cost of equity, country risk premia), terminal value assumptions and long-term growth rates from primary market data. - Maintain comparable company and precedent transaction benchmarking sets across industrial real estate, free zone operators, data centres, aviation infrastructure and carbon markets. - Ensure internal consistency and reconciliation between valuation reports, feasibility studies, detailed project reports, information memoranda and board papers. - Conduct independent review of third-party and counterparty financial submissions, including joint venture partner valuations and tenant creditworthiness assessments. Transaction and Investor Support: - Prepare the quantitative sections of information memoranda, investor presentations, teasers, rating agency packs and lender credit papers. - Support due diligence by responding to investor, lender, auditor and model-auditor queries with clear, referenced workings. - Analyse joint venture and equity participation proposals: entry valuation, dilution, waterfall economics, exit modelling and returns to Holdings. - Track capital markets conditions, peer trading multiples, sukuk pricing and sector news relevant to the Groups issuance windows. - Prepare monthly management analytics: budget variance, programme capex burn, funding requirement forecast and valuation movement bridge. Governance and Standards: - Enforce a single source of truth for Group financial assumptions and maintain the master assumption register with sourcing and approval history. - Apply IVS, RICS Red Book and CFA Institute professional and ethical standards to all valuation work. - Prepare documentation to withstand external model audit, reporting accountant scrutiny and independent valuation review. - Maintain confidentiality and information-barrier discipline over price-sensitive material. Key Performance Indicators: - Zero material errors identified in external model audit or investor due diligence. - Full reconciliation across all Group financial documents at each reporting cycle. - Turnaround time on investor, lender and rating agency information requests. - Timely delivery of valuation refreshes ahead of each capital markets milestone. - Quality and completeness of the master assumption register and model documentation. Qualifications and Experience: - CFA charterholder (mandatory). Candidates who have passed CFA Level III and are awaiting charter award will be considered. - Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or Mathematics; a professional accounting qualification (CA / ACCA / CPA) or Masters degree is an advantage. - Seven (7) to ten (10) years relevant experience in investment banking, valuation advisory, Big Four transaction services, private equity, infrastructure funds or corporate development. - Demonstrable ownership of complex, multi-entity financial models and formal valuation reports. - Exposure to infrastructure, real estate development, industrial or energy assets preferred; familiarity with carbon markets is an advantage. - GCC experience preferred; understanding of Islamic finance economics desirable. - Fluent written and spoken English. Technical and Behavioural Competencies: - Expert-level Excel and financial modelling; VBA, Power Query and Power BI capability advantageous. - Strong command of DCF, SOTP, comparable company, precedent transaction and real-option valuation techniques. - IFRS literacy sufficient to build models that tie to statutory reporting. - Precise, concise technical writing suitable for board and prospectus use. - Analytical scepticism - the willingness to challenge an assumption regardless of its source. - Meticulous attention to detail under deadline pressure.