Senior Associate / Assistant Vice President, Structuring and Execution

About the Role

Temasek’s Structuring & Execution team is the in-house M&A specialist group within the Investment Group. The team works on designing and carrying out large, intricate transactions across global industries, covering public and private M&A, joint ventures, spin-offs, capital raises, restructuring and related deal types.

This is a lean, highly collaborative environment where the selected candidate will partner with multiple teams across the Temasek ecosystem to help deliver meaningful outcomes.

Key Focus Areas

• Create and implement transaction structures that support Temasek’s investment and divestment goals.
• Assess the financial effects of different deal structures, including modelling, return analysis and due diligence support.
• Review investment term sheets and transaction documents, with particular attention to the commercial and financial terms.
• Help coordinate end-to-end transaction execution by identifying risks early, resolving issues and aligning internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the structuring and execution of complex investment and divestment transactions.
• Work alongside industry, markets and portfolio development teams, as well as legal, tax and finance partners, to evaluate and structure deals.
• Review deal terms and transaction documentation as part of the execution process.
• Perform detailed financial analysis of possible transaction structures.
• Draft recommendations for deal teams and senior leadership.

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in a leading private equity, investment banking or corporate finance/M&A environment.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving setting while balancing several priorities at once.
• A proactive mindset with a strong focus on solutions.
• Strong analytical ability and advanced financial modelling skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ and Factiva.
• Prior deal structuring experience is not mandatory.