Amberside Advisors develops a model for telecoms towers portfolio post-investment
June 2024
Amberside Advisors were appointed to build a planning and budgeting model for telecoms towers portfolio by an infrastructure investment fund. After acquiring a stake in the mobile towers joint venture, our client needed a dedicated model that would help them understand the evolving value of the newly acquired asset.
Project details
Client:
Confidential
Sector:
Digital
Subsector:
Telecomms
Service:
Performance Monitoring, Operational Model, Data Analytics
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Through the transaction, the client inherited a transaction model that had undue complexity making it difficult to use as an ongoing business tool that could support planning, valuation and debt tracking in the business.
With our strong credentials in digital sector and incomparable experience in building financial models, we were best placed to support the client in their transition to a better planning solution. Our models are robust, transparent, easy to navigate, and with dedicated functionality to update for management accounts, macroeconomic actuals, and business operating assumptions.
To explain any movements from the transaction model, we started the project by building a transition model that replicated existing model's forecasts and assumptions and reconciling key metrics. Following from that, we built a new model that monitors financial performance of the asset, reports against funding covenants and forecast distributions to shareholders, allowing for easy presentation of financial statements to stakeholders at all levels. And to the delight of the client - it's easy to use, logical and presented in dashboards in an intuitive and user-friendly layout.
Going forward, the model will be used to support quarterly valuation process and demonstrate performance relative to debt covenants for lenders.