Corporate Finance Manager / Senior Manager, Apac

About Air Liquide China

Air Liquide Group entered China in 1916 and began supplying air separation equipment to China in the 1970s. After years of steady development, it now has nearly 120 factories in China, located in more than 40 cities, with about 5,000 employees. The Group's main businesses in China include the operation of industrial and medical gases, home healthcare services, engineering and manufacturing, and innovation businesses engaged in global markets, technology, and the Shanghai Innovation Park. The company's business covers the main coastal industrial areas of China and continues to expand to the central, southern, and western regions. Air Liquide pursues profitable growth and long-term sustainable development by creating excellent performance and fulfilling its responsibilities, and maintains its leading position in the industry in China. Relying on the Group's long-term strategy and global resources, the company focuses on fields such as energy, environment, high technology, and health to meet challenges and create new market opportunities. With the full support of its professional team, the company is committed to providing customers with reliable services and high value-added solutions while fulfilling its corporate social responsibility.

About the APAC CoE

The APAC CoE acts as the strategic interface between the Corporate team and regional entities, overseeing operations across the Asia-Pacific footprint. As the regional "Center of Excellence," The corporate finance CoE together with the subsidiaries and the Paris head office team, arranges the most suitable financing structures for subsidiaries based on cash flows, risks and local regulations; provides financial engineering to support complex business investments and monitors top customers’ risks. The corporate finance CoE members usually further expand their skillset and experience to the domains like M&A, treasury, investor relationship and CFO roles. The corporate finance CoE is a unified, cross-border taskforce who are located in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and in Shanghai (China).

How will you contribute and grow?

• Arrange long-term financing (external & internal loans) and capital injection for new investments
• Set up long-term loan facilities
• Identify financing needs by monitoring the key assumptions of budget and rolling forecast, new investment decisions, and any refinancing requests.
• Analyze entity-level business plans to facilitate long-term strategy for loans, equity injections, and dividend distributions.
• Develop and propose optimal financing structures, including debt-to-equity ratios, financing sources and tenors, to the head office Corporate Finance Team.
• Manage Request for Proposal (RFP) processes with Group-approved banks, including the preparation of information memorandum and comparative analysis of banking proposals.
• Establish banking facilities in compliance with Group standards, partnering with Legal to ensure the validation of all contractual clauses.
• Oversee 12-month cash flow forecasting and perform gap analysis comparing actual performance against projections.
• Conduct annual reviews of existing banking facilities to ensure continued alignment and performance.
• Capital Injection: collaborate with business lines to forecast funding needs and capital injection plan on a new investment, ensure minimum equity and on time capital injection to support business operations.
• Arrange short-term financing (external & internal loans) for working capital requirements
• Discuss with entities regarding short-term funding requirements to support daily operations.
• Establish and oversee the utilization of short-term loan facilities, adjusting limits as necessary.
• Credit Assessment and Bank Guarantee
• Evaluate customer credit risks for prospective projects; provide findings and strategic advice to business units to enhance risk mitigation efforts.
• Conduct annual assessments of the Group Top Customer List, performing detailed industry and risk analysis of major clients across all business lines.
• Manage the assessment and verification of terms, conditions, and language for non-standard Bank Guarantees.
• Advisory and ad-hoc Projects
• M&A due diligence, facilitate corporate finance training, champion continuous process improvements, and keep up regulatory developments.

Are you the right person?

• Bachelor’s degree and major in Finance, Economics (not Accounting) or laws related is preferred.
• Experience with an international organization is preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of corporate finance/treasury experience and at least 5 years of debt raising experience is a must.
• Expertise in core terms and conditions of banking loans (bilateral, syndication) is a must.
• Abilities to understand the business substances , and sense of outlooking instead of reviewing.
• Ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously, maintaining a clear sense of priorities; Solution oriented.
• Professional level in Chinese and English.

About Air Liquide Group

Air Liquide Group - one of the world leaders in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 employees, serving more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential molecules for life, matter and energy. They have always been at the heart of Air Liquide's activities since the company was founded in 1902.

Diversity drives our performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, embracing the diversity of employees, customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures from around the world. We welcome and consider all qualified applicants regardless of their background. We believe that a diverse organization provides opportunities for people to showcase their individual and collective talents, contributing to fostering our innovation capacity, living up to our core principles, striving for our success and creating an attractive environment in a constantly changing world.