Area description: TEF INFRA Strategy, Finance and Business Development
Mission
- Telefónica Infra is the unit of Telefónica Group acting as a portfolio manager owning and rotating stakes in infrastructure vehicles alongside financial investors.
- Its objectives include crystallizing the value of Telefónica’s infrastructure assets and know how through dedicated management and increased focus, partnering with leading financial investors to co-invest in growth opportunities involving flexible partnership structures and business models.
- Telefónica Infra has recently announced two landmark transactions to co-invest in fiber deployment along renowned infrastructure investors, creating a 50/50 JV in Germany with Allianz and a 50/50 JV in Brasil with CDPQ.
Main duties & responsibilities
- Help to define the strategic vision for TEF Infra, its value proposition to the market and to TEF stakeholders
- Follow market trends related to TEF infrastructure and to the universe of infrastructure players and investors
- Identify, analyse and propose opportunities designed to highlight the value of TEF infra assets, through monetisation or co-investment alternatives
- Work together with other business units in TEF Group to identify the most adequate monetisation / co-investment model in each case (prepare business plan, operating implications, carve out, transitional agreements, …) and to find a balance between different units’ objectives
- Participate in the end to end project execution of selected opportunities, together with other areas within the Group and with external advisors (business plan, financial modelling, valuation, financing structure, analysis of financial returns, due diligence, negotiations, transaction documents and shareholder agreements, value creation analysis, communication plan, …)
- Monitor stakes held in Infra vehicles, including their future development and the relationship with investors/partners
- Develop TEF Infra equity story and quarterly communication updates vis a vis the market (coordinating interaction with IR and communication teams)
Education required: Economics, Business, Management, Engineering
Specific skills
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Analytical skills with global perspective
- Ability to analyse with criteria and to formulate hypotheses and methodologies to model real situations through simulations
- Global vision that brings perspective to the technical, analytical and synthesis capacity. Ability to take decisions with criteria.
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Results oriented & flexibility
- Creativity and willingness to find new alternatives to existing models or propose new ideas or ways of doing things, looking for solutions and alternatives to confront challenges within each project
- Results orientation combined with reliability, striking a healthy balance between analytical perfection and deadlines, without compromising reliability or quality
- Pro-active stance and flexibility to manage several projects in parallel and to adapt to constant changes and re-prioritisation
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Team player
- Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, interacting with other colleagues from within and outside the group (investors, external advisors, ...)
- Ability and willingness to build relationships of trust, fostering efficient and constructive collaboration with other areas of the group that allows obtaining the best results for the Group
- Communication skills (preparation of internal presentations to TEF top management / decision bodies, and external presentations to the market)
Technical knowledge
- Solid financial background (business plans, financial modelling, valuation, financial returns, …)
- Experience in M&A project execution (due diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation of agreements,…)
- Technological knowledge will be valued
Professional Experience
- Experience in M&A projects, structuring co-investment ventures with 3rd parties, carve-out processes, strategic consulting
- Experience interacting with other units within TEF Group
- Experience in Investment Bank, M&A boutique, Corporate Finance team, Big 4 Transaction Services dept or Strategic Consulting focused in telecommunications industry
Languages: Fluent in Spanish & English
Other: May involve travelling (depending on projects)
If you join Telefónica
You join almost 100 years of history, you join a team of 106 nationalities present in more tan 35 countries. You join a team that works to connect people wherever they are. We are leading the digital revolution with the enthusiasm of the first day in all our businesses, creating the best digital ecosystem for our clients: network, IoT, cloud, security, innovation etc. Here, at Telefónica you count with everything you need to be the best you. We need people like you that wants to take this challenge of creating the Telefónica of tomorrow.
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