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
Portfolio Management & Fund Oversight
- 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
Investment & Asset Management Support
- 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.
Product Specialist / Capital Raising
- 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.
Market Intelligence & Thought Leadership
- 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.
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
Skills Required
- Master's degree or degree in Finance or Business Administration from a leading university
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with private real estate or infrastructure funds in investment or asset management
- Broad knowledge and extensive networks in private infrastructure and real estate markets in the Asia Pacific region
- Commercial judgment, analytical skills, research skills, problem-solving skills, and communication skills
- Ability to lead investor discussions
- Experience dealing with international institutional investors
- Self-motivated team player who is meticulous, organized, and able to learn independently
- Proficiency in financial modeling and market and industry research
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
What We Do
Keppel is a global asset manager and operator with strong expertise in sustainability-related solutions spanning the areas of infrastructure, real estate and connectivity. Headquartered in Singapore, Keppel operates in more than 20 countries worldwide, providing critical infrastructure and services for renewables, clean energy, decarbonisation, sustainable urban renewal and digital connectivity. Keppel creates value for investors and stakeholders through its quality investment platforms and diverse asset portfolios, including private funds and listed real estate and business trusts, and has a total portfolio with more than S$65 billion of assets under management.
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