Corporate Finance Director
Veon
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- The Director Corporate Finance plays an essential role in supporting VEON maintaining sufficient liquidity, amongst other things by securing new loans and issuance of bonds to refinance maturing debt and to obtain necessary new funding to allow VEON to invest in its operations or for M&A support
- Support the Group Treasury Director in the creation of presentations for the Finance Committee of the Board, and the Audit Committee of the Board
- Be instrumental in supporting both the Group Treasury Director and the Investor Relations team in the communications to the market when it comes to credit related matters, credit investors and credit rating agencies
- Provide support in the forecasting process by identifying possible funding needs and together with the Group Treasury Director and in coordination with the Group CFO developing short terms, medium term and long term funding strategies both for HQ and Operating Subsidiary level financings to support capital structure objectives
- Financial modelling as required to analyse impact of projected business performance on capital structure plans
- Bank relationship management
- Day to day support of Group Treasury Director bank relationship management activities from a bank loan funding and credit perspective
- Day to day support in discussions with Debt Capital Market teams of banking partners understanding new developments and key themes on the debt capital markets
- Participation in discussions of hedging with banking partners
- Funding
- Defining and implementing the Group s funding strategy
- Effectively managing bank and debt capital markets relationships
- Ensure the Group s access to different funding options including banking debt market and global capital markets by establishing various funding programs for opportunistic liquidity access (revolving credit facilities, bonds program, uncommitted credit lines, etc.)
- Evaluate alternative funding options including debt-equity convertible, equity exchangeable funding, etc.
- Manage the relationship with the Group s internal / external auditors regarding funding structures, facilitate their activities and discuss their recommendations
- Monitor the Group s and VEON s OpCos outstanding bonds and observe the secondary trading in term of volume and pricing for potential treasury transactions
- Monitor existing and new regulations of the relevant stock exchanges for the Group s and VEON s OpCos bonds and ensure compliance
- Monitor interest rates and markets for opportunistic and efficient re-financing at better terms
- Periodic review of interest rate levels in the markets where the Group and VEON s OpCos operate to decide on the best mix of debt currencies bearing in mind natural hedging and debt cost considerations
- Assist VEON s OpCos in shaping their funding strategies and structures to deploy the most efficient and competitive financing solutions
- Leverage the Group s treasury relationships with banks and other financial institutions to improve the terms of VEON s OpCos financing projects
- Monitor the performance of VEON s OpCos debts in term of repayment and compliance with financial covenants and other terms
- Provide focus to finance team on available products in the banking structures
- Capital Management.
- Review and finalize the portfolio assessment in terms of valuation, return and funding requirements for all VEON s OpCos
- Manage credit rating process and relationships with rating agencies
- Review the Group and VEON s OpCos funding plans and asses its implication from credit rating perspective
- Review and finalize financial models for capital structure of agreed upon VEON s OpCos
- Develop dividend policy alternatives in conjunction with other relevant functions
- Assess and monitor impact of changes in dividend policy on the Group s capital structure and share price
- Taking an active role in acquisitions and disposals including due diligence, sale and purchase agreements and post-deal integration
- Credit rating agencies management
- Maintain active dialogues with credit rating agencies on a quarterly and pro-actively on an ad hoc basis upon occurrence of material (credit) developments and transactions
- Prepare annual review meetings
- Review and comment on draft releases by credit rating agencies
- Actively explain the capital structure strategy and spot inconsistencies in credit ratings to secure an appropriate rating for VEON
- Credit investor management
- Support Investor Relations team in their communications to investors from a credit investor by reviewing the debt and liquidity related slides and sections in quarterly reports and other investor presentations
- Actively participate in credit investor meetings, credit conferences as well as in non-deal and deal related credit road shows
- Support investor relations team and Senior Management in answering credit and capital structure related questions from investors
- Debt capital market transactions
- Actively participate in discussions with banking partners on debt capital market opportunities and developments
- Co-develop together with the Group Treasury Director capital markets strategy and advise to Group CFO and VEON Board
- Negotiate transaction documents and bond indentures
- Prepare investor presentation
- Manage credit ratings
- Coordinate with internal teams, legal, external reporting and investor relations on various aspects of the transaction
- Engage in Investor meetings
- Participate in and contribute to final pricing decisions
- Bank loan negotiations
- Drive negotiations with banks for new banks loans both at HQ and Operating subsidiary levels either to refinance existing loans or to generate new funding for advancing business objectives
- Review and negotiate the actual loan agreements for HQ loans
- Review and coordinate loan agreement at operating subsidiaries, ensuring operating subsidiary loans are in conformity with VEON HQ loan documentation standards
- Liaise with other functions to obtain relevant input (tax, external reporting)
- Support operating companies in understanding and analysing local loan agreements
Keywords
- Corporate Finance Director
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