Portfolio Finance Associate

Description

• Partner with asset management and leadership to navigate contract amendments, consents, waivers, etc., and more broadly facilitate smooth and efficient information sharing across Aypa;
• Provide FP&A support and maintain debt and tax equity financial models after commercial operations date, delivering key information to facilitate annual planning, budgeting, corporate model maintenance, and cash and tax forecasts;
• Provide advice, best practices, and transaction support (as needed) to deal execution teams in the structuring and execution of financings;
• Management and cultivation of financing partner relationships with counterparty stakeholders as part of administering the portfolio during operations;
• Work closely with cross functional teams to manage loan draw processes, consult on deliverables, and lead project onboarding to ensure readiness and eligibility for warehouse financing;
• Perform ad-hoc projects and duties as required or assigned.
• Support ongoing planning and reporting requirements to Blackstone;
• Coordinate reporting and take-out strategies for projects transitioning from the warehouse to long-term financing structures such as tax equity financing, term loans or private placements;
• Oversee financial operations and compliance for a large construction warehouse facility (the largest of its kind in energy storage), including modeling, planning, capex tracking, covenant testing and reporting, and payment execution;
• Play a lead role in growing Aypa's Portfolio Finance function, liaising across the organization to ensure sound execution and compliance with the company's existing financings;
• Manage the interest rate hedging program, including compliance and supporting accounting on hedge effectiveness analysis;

Requirements

• Familiarity with transactions in the renewables space including construction financing and the funding and drawdown process, with tax equity financing or fund management experience a major plus;
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and decision-making skills;
• Financial modeling experience in energy or infrastructure is required;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal;
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI; ability to analyze and interpret data;
• Familiarity with complex portfolio management;
• Ability to review and understand complex contracts, including technical, financial, and legal concepts with respect to major infrastructure projects;
• Minimum 4+ years of finance, asset management or FP&A work experience, ideally with exposure to the energy or asset management industries;
• Ability to work and effectively communicate and influence other business partners;
• Ownership of key aspects of the warehouse model, corporate model and strategic business reporting/analysis;
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, finance, business, or accounting;
• Technical understanding to support budgeting, forecasting, and financing;

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance