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The treasury cockpit — 13-week cash, EBITDA-to-FCF conversion, working-capital unlock, receivables, liquidity and covenant headroom.

Nippon Life India Asset Management · FY26 (modeled)
Top 5 Indian AMC by AUM
1,200 employees · 0+ US sites · 2 countries
Executive read· the answer, then the moves

Liquidity is sound at $2100M (≈ 194 weeks cover), but $-324.9M of working capital is trapped in receivables — pull DSO from 17d to 48d to self-fund the next deal rather than draw the $9990M of covenant capacity.

5 of 5 headline metrics improving vs prior · still off target: Liquidity $2.10B vs $2.20B, Free Cash Flow $1.53B vs $1.60B, Average DSO 17d vs 15d

Do now — ranked by urgency
  1. 1
    Deploy $9990M of deal capacity to the 5.5× covenantAct now
    Why it matters

    Headroom to the 5.5× ceiling buys ≈ $999M of acquirable EBITDA at ~10× — idle firepower against the roll-up thesis.

    What's driving it
    • Net-debt capacity $9990M to 5.5×
    • 13-wk cash trough $16.82M vs $20M minimum
    FYI
    • Liquidity $2100M ≈ 194 weeks cover
    • FCF $1530M = 83% EBITDA conversion
  2. 2
    Reliance Industries Staff Superannuation Fund credit exposureAct now
    Why it matters

    Move to credit hold pending paydown; reforecast ARR net of likely churn.

    What's driving it
    • Overdue AR
    • Signal: Alert
    FYI

    Distress filings + overdue AR; churn risk High on $6.4M account.

  3. 3
    Covenant headroom 0.9× (lev 4.6× vs 5.5×)Act now
    Why it matters

    Sets deal capacity and refinancing risk.

    What's driving it
    • Q1 (act)
    • Signal: Threshold
    FYI
    • Net-debt/EBITDA 4.6× against a 5.5× ceiling.
    • Owner: CFO · Treasury
  4. 4
    3 brands running DSO > 65 daysWatch
    Why it matters

    Targeted collections sprint on $0.9M; tighten milestone billing on ISC projects.

    What's driving it
    • DSO
    • Signal: Alert
    FYI

    ISC (67d), Nippon Wealth Management (66d), Reliance Industries Staff Superannuation Fund account (67d) lifting blended DSO.

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Liquidity
$2100M
≈ 194 weeks cover
Free cash flow
$1530M
83% EBITDA conversion
Cash conversion cycle
-4d
DSO 17 + DIO 18 − DPO 21
Working-capital unlock
$-324.9M
DSO 17→48d target
Exhibit 1

13-week direct cash flow forecast

Net weekly cash (bars) and ending cash (line) vs. $20M minimum. Forecast trough: $16.82M.

Breach risk
$19.92M
Opening cash
$143M
13-wk collections
$141M
13-wk disbursements
$21.74M
Closing cash
Exhibit 2

EBITDA → Free cash flow

$1850M EBITDA converts to $1530M FCF (83%).

Exhibit 3

Cash collected

Monthly, $M.

Cash conversion cycle

Working-capital days

DSO — receivables17d
DIO — inventory18d
DPO — payables (offset)(21d)
Cash conversion cycle-4d
Where cash is trapped

Working-capital cash unlock

$5.0M

Normalizing laggard brands to 50-day DSO releases ~$5.0M one-time.

Debt Portfolio: Hybrid Fund67d
$1.1M
Equity Portfolio: Hybrid Fund61d
$1.0M
Nippon Hybrid Fund56d
$0.9M
Nippon Wealth Management66d
$0.7M
Nippon AIF Growth Opportunities60d
$0.6M
Nippon Large Cap Fund58d
$0.4M
Nippon Tax Saver Fund54d
$0.1M
Collections

AR aging

Total AR $68M

Current days$31.94M
1-30 days$16.99M
31-60 days$7.91M
61-90 days$5.74M
90+ days$5.45M

Overdue (>60d) = $11.2M.

Exhibit 4

Collections priority

Highest DSO first.

AccountRevenueDSOCredit risk
Reliance Industries Staff Superannuation Fund$3.75M67dHigh
Brookfield Corporation$7.56M63dMedium
Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance$2.4M59dMedium
Rajiv Mehra$8.32M58dLow
ICICI Prudential Life$4.22M55dMedium
IBM$5.68M52dMedium
UPS$6.62M49dLow
Exhibit 5

Supplier DPO

Working-capital lever.

SupplierSpendDPOOTIFRisk
SEBI$37.5M45d96%Low
Market Data Provider$33.99M42d93%Low
Fund Admin System$24.03M38d90%Medium
Risk Engine$15.82M36d89%Medium
CRM$13.48M40d95%Low
Portfolio Management$11.13M44d92%Low
Exhibit 6

Leverage runway vs. covenant

Headroom = firepower

Deal capacity

Net-debt capacity to 5.5x
$9990M
≈ $999M acquirable EBITDA @ ~10x
Net Debt/EBITDA0.1x
DSCR4.8x
Covenant Headroom1.9x
Cash Collected98.7%