Associate Director

From Taylor Hopkinson, we are looking for a talented Associate Director for Leading Multinational Investment Firm.

About Taylor Hopkinson :

Taylor Hopkinson is a trusted recruitment partner to the world's renewable energy leaders. Our multi-lingual teams deliver market-leading solutions within the full life cycle of renewable energy projects, across the industry's emerging and most mature markets.

About our client :

Headquartered in London with offices in UK, Europe, USA, Middle East , our client is a leading infrastructure investment firm that manages £12+ billion through seven core infrastructure Funds and co-investment Funds often dedicated to larger infrastructure projects. Their investment strategy focuses on infrastructure projects across the UK and Europe, covering a wide range of sectors with a particular focus on Energy Transition, social infrastructure, transportation and regulated utilities.

Across all its Funds, the company seeks to hold assets for the long term and usually for the life of the Funds.

With 325+ core infrastructure projects acquired since the firm's inception, the company has institutionalized its distinctive approach to infrastructure investing. It continues a steady growth trajectory of funds under management, forging a strong reputation amongst investors and customers as a trustworthy, experienced, innovative and agile Fund manager.

Asset Management Overview :

Asset Management is responsible for all portfolio assets from financial close. The approach is to in-house Asset Management is to ensure :

• Onboarding of assets to AM supporting our investment team in this process ensuring that the necessary service provisions are appropriately scoped, priced and that financial models (acquisition and operational) are in place.
• Full oversight of all onboarded assets including taking on Board Directorships and communication to stakeholders.
• Good governance practices.
• Overwatch of Management Service Providers (MSP) to ensure they are performing their scope of services.
• Appropriate reporting of operational and financial performance of our assets
• Implementation of strategic initiatives that boost yield and value.
• Communication of performance of assets back to Fund Management, Investors and the Board through regular Fund reporting and ad hoc meetings on key issues.

Assets

The Enterprise Value of the current installed infrastructure is £100bn+ shared across Energy Transition, Transport, Network Utilities and Social Infrastructure.

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Working with Fund Management

Fund Management is a sub-team within the Asset Management team, responsible for the Fund's performance and is the interface between the Investor and the Funds / Assets. The wider AM Team regularly works with Fund management, to :

Your role : Associate Director

As the business continues to grow, the company is opening for an Associate Director to have an initial focus in managing a growing platform in Spain of circa €1bn of assets that will combine Solar PV, Onshore Wind and Battery Storage (Project Summit). We anticipate that the role may grow in future so that the individual can add-value across the Energy Transition team.

The role encompasses :

o Take on and discharge responsibilities as a statutory Board Director on Project Summit assets and, in future, other Energy Transition assets.

o Oversee and enforce Summit's Management Service Provider's contractual obligations to our Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) ensuring that all contractual services are being provided. These include information and reporting deliverables associated with :

Financial Management services

General Management services

Construction Management

Operations Management

o Oversee the handover of new assets from construction to operations.

o Manage all the shareholder reporting requirements for Project Summit ensuring that the MSP provides complete information in a timely manner to ensure that all aspects of reporting are up to date.

o Identify any gaps between MSP reporting and shareholder reporting and make recommendations to bridge these gaps rapidly.

o Assist with re-scope of management services so that they are aligned to changing levels of support the SPV may need.

o Implement appropriate levels of skilled additional oversight to ensure that the SPV is managing key risks including ESG, health and safety and cyber security.

o Ensure the MSP is enforcing contracts where contracted parties to the SPV are underperforming.

o Assess business plans and key objectives and manage these.

o Help set and manage in-year SPV budgets.

o Identify and describe key technical risks and opportunities.

o Identify important operational KPIs and understand key underlying value drivers.

o Identify and retain appropriate resources to help mitigate technical risks.

o Be able to identify and evaluate and isolate key value drives, inform bridging to FC cases and help guide sensitivity analysis.

o Identify and deliver asset optimisations to improve yield.

o Working with colleagues within and outside Asset Management to propose strategies for project value enhancement including financing, co-investment, revamping / re-powering and divestment.

o Be up to date with key regulatory changes in the Spanish market (and emerging in the EU), helping to articulate impacts on the Summit portfolio.

Given the dynamic nature of the work in the AM team and the cross-sector assets, the candidate may be required to support assets in our other AM sectors.

The individual must be able to :

The successful candidate will also be required to :

Key attributes :

Education and experience

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