JOB DESCRIPTION
Role Overview
The VP will serve a dual mandate - driving portfolio management excellence across Keppel's private data centre funds, while acting as a product specialist and capital formation partner. The role sits at the intersection of portfolio management, investor relations, and product development, requiring a commercially astute individual who can credibly engage both institutional investors and internal investment teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute portfolio strategy, business plans, and annual budgets in alignment with the fund's mandate and investment guidelines.
- Maintain centralized oversight of the private data centre funds, encompassing capital allocation, compliance with investment restrictions, performance monitoring, and adherence to governance frameworks.
- Actively manage fund liquidity, control fund-level expenses, and implement strategies to optimize investor distributions and risk-adjusted returns.
- Build, own, and continuously maintain life-of-fund financial models, ensuring integrity of projections, cash flow forecasting, and scenario analysis.
- Produce rigorous fund-level performance metrics, investor reporting, and returns benchmarking against relevant private real estate, infrastructure, and data centre peer universes.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for existing investors of the Funds, to respond to their queries
- Participate actively in the investment process - including evaluation of acquisition and divestment opportunities - by providing portfolio-level context, capital allocation perspectives, and investor return considerations.
- Collaborate with asset management teams to monitor business plan execution across portfolio assets, escalating risks and opportunities as appropriate.
- Contribute the portfolio and investor lens to investment committee deliberations, ensuring deal-level decisions are evaluated within the context of overall fund construction and mandate constraints.
- Act as a product specialist for the data centre fund strategy in investor meetings
- Working as part of a team to support end-to-end capital raising activities, including contributing to the development of marketing materials, pitchbooks, DDQs, RFP responses, and fund terms documentation.
- Provide substantive responses on fund strategy, portfolio construction, performance attribution, and risk management.
- Partner with structuring teams on the design and launch of new fund products and co-investment vehicles, ensuring alignment with market demand and investor preferences.
- Develop and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with a broad institutional investor base including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, family offices, and fund-of-funds.
- Monitor and synthesize competitive intelligence across private real estate, digital infrastructure, and data centre investment markets, tracking trends in capital flows, fund structures, pricing, and investor sentiment.
- Produce thematic content to support fundraising narratives, investor communications, and strategic planning.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Pre-requisites:
- Masters / Degree in Finance / Business Administration from leading university
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with private real estate / infrastructure funds in investment or asset management role with broad knowledge and extensive networks in the private infrastructure/ real estate markets for the Asia Pacific region.
- Commercially astute, and possess sharp analytical, research, problem solving skills and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead investor discussions Proven track record in dealing with international institutional investors will be viewed favorably.
- A self-motivated team player who is meticulous, detailed oriented, organized and able to learn quickly and independently
- Proficient with financial modelling, market and industry research in infrastructure, real estate or other private equity assets
- A strong communicator with excellent stakeholder management skill and ability to interact well with different functions and levels.
- Ability to multi-task and work in fast pace dynamic environment
BUSINESS SEGMENT
Connectivity
PLATFORM
Fund Management
