Role Overview
The Senior Financial Analyst / Financial Modelling Lead is a key role within the Finance function, responsible for building, owning, and continuously improving the company's financial models, ensuring they meet high professional and quality standards and are consistently applied across all projects and departments. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of strong experience in energy/ infrastructure.
Beyond core financial analysis responsibilities, this role acts as the centre of excellence for financial modelling, overseeing model governance, approvals, documentation, and performance tracking at both project and portfolio level. The role also plays a leading part in project approvals, business planning, forecasting, M&A transactions, and project finance activities, while training and upskilling the wider Financial Analysis team.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Model Governance, Filing & Approvals
- Maintain a central overview of all project financial models, including approved models, versions and change logs and 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 and file structures and governance
- Ensure Financial Modelling services are delivered to all departments on time and at the required quality level.
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.
Project Finance Support
- Support the Project Finance team by developing and adapting financial models for project finance purposes and 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
- High attention to detail, strong documentation discipline, and structured thinking.
- Ability to lead without formal authority, train others, and act as a quality gatekeeper.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with Business Development, M&A, Project Finance, and senior management.
