We are looking for a Head of Corporate Development to join our team. Monk’s Hill Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies across Southeast Asia. We are entrepreneurs backing great entrepreneurs who use technology to improve the lives of millions of people in the region.

In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the success of our portfolio companies. You will partner with founders and their teams post-investment to help promising regional startups grow. Primarily, you will work closely with our portfolio companies to effectively scale strategic and financial planning processes. This includes but is not limited to developing strategic objectives to ensure successful fundraising for future operations and growth.  The success of this role will be tangibly measured by the efficiency, speed and quality of the fundraising process. The impact of this role will be apparent via the value trajectory of the portfolio.

A bit about our culture: all senior members of our investment team have previous experience in investing, startups and significant operational experience - we believe in having great empathy for the people we invest in, and “earning the right to invest”. Our environment is fast-paced and high-output. Our team values thoughtfulness, a get-it-done attitude, grit, resilience and strong interpersonal skills. A sense of humour and the ability to see the silver lining when the going gets tough is a nice complement.

This role can be based in Singapore or another country within Southeast Asia, and will report into our Managing Partners.

Work with our portfolio companies on the following:

- Strategic Planning

• Advise on strategic financial operations, including strategic planning processes, financial forecast models, systems, and tools
• Counsel on developing and monitoring critical financial performance metrics and review processes
• Partner with founders and senior management to fine-tune their strategic and capital roadmap, and positioning. This includes anticipating funding/exit needs.
  

- Capital Planning

• Establish capital requirements and plans
• Collaboratively create narrative
• Work closely with other board members to define milestones and metrics needed for a successful fundraise
• Identify potential investors and socialize portcos to them early to build familiarity
  

- Capital Raising

• Preparation
• Market testing
• Demand generation
• Process support
• Support in deal structuring and negotiations
  

- Adverse Situations

• Define options in adverse or distressed situations
• Work closely with partners and founders/management to define best path forward to optimize value and other considerations
• Identify potential investors/acquirers/exit path as decided
• Support exit process
  

- External Facing: Network building

• Systematically establish a network of investors and co-investors
• Build detailed database of investor profiles, preferences, organization, decision process, history of conversation etc
• Create programs to tighten relationships with preferred investors/partners, including our Limited Partners with interest in co-investments

• Keen strategic understanding of a wide range of businesses. This involves digging into portco business, product and competitive landscape;
• Great storytelling skills to be able to create a compelling narrative for any fundraising situation (favorable or adverse);
• Strong network of potential investors and co-investors, with an inside view of the priorities and preferences of the investors and the ability to match appropriate investors to the portco funding opportunities;
• Ability to build a network of various service providers - lawyers, bankers, brokers, etc - to present the best option for any funding situation;
• Ability to work closely with founders and senior management of the portcos in a supportive and consultative manner to secure buy-in and that is consistent with the MHV founder-focused approach; and
• Ability to multitask, handle spikey workloads and work across organizational structures.
• Familiarity working in Southeast Asia and long term commitment to the region

If this sounds like a good fit for your experience and interests, we want to hear from you!
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