Manager Debt & Investment

About the Role

Alfanar Projects is seeking a Manager, Debt & Investment to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves managing debt facilities and investment portfolios to ensure funding requirements are met, repayment obligations are fulfilled, and returns are optimized within approved risk and liquidity limits. The Manager will oversee related transactions, financial exposures, compliance, and reporting in alignment with treasury strategies and delegated authority.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess funding requirements and coordinate financing plans with relevant functions.
• Manage debt issuance, drawdowns, repayments, and refinancing activities according to approved strategies.
• Monitor credit facility availability, utilization, maturity profiles, and funding costs.
• Coordinate financing negotiations and facility renewals with financial institutions and stakeholders.
• Manage investment portfolios within approved risk appetite, liquidity requirements, and return objectives.
• Evaluate investment opportunities and recommend placements or reallocations based on financial assessments.
• Oversee investment transactions and monitor portfolio performance, maturity profiles, and concentration limits.
• Review cash flow forecasts to identify funding gaps and funds available for investment.
• Monitor issuer and counterparty exposures and recommend actions for concentration risks or credit deterioration.
• Manage foreign currency and interest-rate hedging related to debt and investments within approved policies.
• Monitor debt covenants, repayment schedules, and financing obligations, coordinating action on potential breaches.
• Ensure financing, investment, and hedging documentation is complete and appropriately approved.
• Review debt, investment, and financial risk reports, highlighting performance, exposures, and required actions.
• Coordinate with Finance to provide accurate information for related accounting and hedge accounting.
• Improve reporting controls, transaction workflows, and treasury system utilization.

Leadership and Management

• Assign responsibilities and balance workloads based on funding, investment, and reporting priorities.
• Review team performance, accuracy, and timeliness of assigned activities.
• Provide coaching and identify training needs to strengthen debt, investment, and financial risk capabilities.
• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to develop a robust second line of management.
• Recognize low performers and guide them to improve or manage their exit.
• Ensure fair treatment of subordinates without discrimination, basing assessments on performance and results.

Accountability and Business Acumen

• Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and deliverables, adhering to company guidelines.
• Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them.
• Make necessary and timely decisions.
• Deliver required results in a timely manner with specified quality and cost.
• Make a tangible difference in the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
• Transform corporate goals into business plans, then plan, follow up, and execute these plans.
• Monitor plan performance, initiate actions to strengthen results, and take corrective actions.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development and Process Improvement

• Develop the organizational structure based on current and future requirements.
• Ensure job descriptions are available for all roles and deployed.
• Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities.
• Be conversant with and able to navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business.
• Promote the full utilization of automated systems to foster their adoption.
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 6-10 years of relevant experience is required for this role.
• Commitment to quality as a prime competitive advantage.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment in accordance with standard regulations.