Investment Manager

Our client is looking for an Investment Manager to join their Finance team. We are looking for someone with strong hands-on experience in financial modelling, preferably in renewable energy / power.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Modelling Excellence & Standards

• Build robust, transparent, and professionally structured financial models from scratch, in line with best-practice financial modelling standards.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve group-wide financial modelling standards, assumptions frameworks, and quality controls.
• Maintain and enhance core model templates used across development, M&A, project finance, and portfolio management.
• Ensure all financial models are clearly structured, auditable, well-documented, and user-friendly.

2. Model Governance, Filing & Approvals

• Maintain a central overview of all project financial models, including:
• Approved models
• Versions and change logs
• Key assumptions and approval status
• Ensure all models are compliantly filed, version-controlled, and stored in line with internal governance and audit requirements.
• Track model approvals and financial sign-offs in coordination with Finance, Business Development, and senior management.
• Act as the single point of truth for approved financial models.

3. Portfolio Monitoring & Performance Tracking

• Track the ongoing financial performance of projects versus approved models.
• Update and monitor project and portfolio IRRs on a continuous basis, highlighting deviations from approved cases.
• Provide regular portfolio-level financial performance insights to the CFO and senior management.
• Support strategic decision-making through portfolio analytics and scenario analysis.

4. Business Planning & Forecasting

• Own and continuously improve the Group's Business Planning and Forecasting models and files.
• Ensure consistency between project-level models, business plans, budgets, and forecasts.
• Lead the financial modelling input into annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term planning cycles.
• Improve automation, robustness, and transparency of planning and forecasting tools.

5. Project Approval Process (Finance Lead)

• Lead the project approval process from the finance side, in close coordination with the Business Development team.
• Prepare, review, and challenge financial models, assumptions, and scenarios for projects submitted for approval.
• Ensure financial analyses presented to management, investment committees, and the Board are accurate, consistent, and decision-ready.

6. Team Leadership, Training & Documentation

• Act as the key contact point for the Financial Analysis team on all financial modelling matters.
• Train and mentor other Financial Analysts to raise overall modelling quality and consistency.
• Prepare and maintain clear manuals, guidelines, and documentation covering:
• Modelling standards
• Assumptions methodology
• File structures and governance
• Ensure Financial Modelling services are delivered to all departments on time and at the required quality level.

7. M&A Support

• Support the M&A team in:
• Financial modelling
• Valuation analysis
• Transaction structuring
• Review and integrate external models (e.g. seller models) into internal valuation frameworks.
• Support investment decision-making with scenario analysis and sensitivity testing.

8. Project Finance Support

• Support the Project Finance team by:
• Developing and adapting financial models for project finance purposes
• Ensuring bankability, consistency, and lender-ready structure
• Assist with financial model inputs for data rooms and lender discussions.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience in financial modelling, preferably in infrastructure, energy, project finance, or M&A.
• Advanced Excel skills; ability to build complex models from first principles.
• Strong understanding of:
• Project finance structures
• IRR, NPV, and portfolio analytics
• Investment approval processes