Job title:
Investment Manager – Senior
Company
LSP Renewables
Job description
Due to the continuous growth of our clients business, they are currently hiring a full time Senior Investment Manager to join their team in London. The Senior Investment Manager will be responsible for our clients successful entry into large competitive onshore transmission project sector.The transmission project sector, also known as ‘CATO’ will be tendered via a structured procurement process, and it is expected that the Senior Investment Manager would be a key member of the CATO bid team, leading investment, project finance debt and business case workstreams.This role may also support the investment, project finance debt and business case workstream for the broader origination function and support development, delivery and operations activities relating to our clients assets. As a key member of the team, the individual needs to be commercially and financially astute, ambitious and driven. They will seek to contribute to the fast growth and success of the company, whilst ensuring that high investment management standards are maintained.The role will report to the Investment Director who is primarily responsible for the CATO projects. Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Lead development of all internal governance investment related processes including preparation of papers and presentation materials and leading key meetings as required
- Identify potential equity partners, develop strong relationships and support the formalisation of contractual documents required for establishing project consortia
- Establish and maintain relationships with debt financiers and lead project finance debt raising activities with the support of financial advisers as needed
- Support the determination of winning bid strategies, bid structures and consortium commercial structures
- Lead investment, project finance debt and business case workstreams, engaging with and managing highly experienced internal and consortium partner individuals focused on producing high-quality deliverables for all CATO projects and other work as required
- Procure, select and manage financial advisers and provide oversight to all investor and debt due diligence workstreams
- Actively participate in commercial and other closely related workstreams that impact the investment case, debt raising and equity more broadly
- Gather bid inputs and lead on drafting certain bid documents as required
- Provide investment, project finance debt and business case workstream input to bid management tools and processes including bid programme, resourcing approach and budget
- Identify, manage and mitigate key risks to the investment case and equity more generally during the bid and project origination process
- Create all necessary investment, debt raising and business case development procedures, processes and tools to support the CATO bidding activities including in-house financial models and standardised assumptions underpinning investment cases
- Oversee project financial modelling activities with the support of financial advisers as needed
- Mentor and manage junior colleagues as required
- Support broader origination function, and development, delivery and operations teams as required
Education, Work Experience & Qualifications
- Qualified to Degree level; Masters level and/or CFA or similar designation is preferred
- Minimum 10 years professional experience in infrastructure project origination and bidding, investment, business case management and project finance debt raising within a lead equity sponsor, developer or infrastructure advisory firm ideally in the energy industry
- Experience developing and managing infrastructure project finance financial models
- Advanced knowledge of the commercial issues relevant to sponsors of, and investors in, complex greenfield infrastructure projects delivered with private sector funding and the interdependencies with construction and operations contractors
- Industry standing and proven networking capability
- Although not essential, the following would be beneficial:
- Knowledge of electricity transmission sector
- Previous experience in undertaking market analysis and developing well-diligence views on macroeconomic factors and economic asset revenue streams
- Previous experience structuring transactions for novel and/or emerging infrastructure sectors or commercial frameworks, having regard to competitiveness, market factors and stakeholder drivers
- Languages – English (required)
Skills & Attributes
- Well organised with excellent planning and organisational skills
- Self-starter
- Core capability in project finance
- Strong relationship building (internal and external), influencing and negotiation skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely orally and in writing
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to establish, maintain and manage effective relationships and partnerships with diverse internal and external stakeholders, including influencing and negotiating desired outcomes
- Ability to interact with and influence senior management
- Strong Microsoft office skills
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 02:42:37 GMT
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