Portfolio Associate

Description

For your portfolio of assets, your role is to understand and deliver against all investor requirements which includes reporting, valuing portfolio investments, forecasting and calculating distributions, debt management and investor communications. In this role, you will deliver accurate and high-quality outputs whilst supporting the drive to continuously improve our fund management processes. You will support onboarding new investments and capital recycling programmes as well as refinancing activities. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work in OEGEN where we our ambition is to onboard and manage £billions of assets over the next 5 years.

• Debt modelling You will understand the debt structures in place within your asset portfolios and ensure that all lender requirements are understood and complied with. You will work with the Investments team on project finance where appropriate and build your knowledge in this area.
• Risk Management: You will support the Senior Portfolio Manager ensure that the fund is governed correctly, providing input into papers for relevant Boards, ensuring accurate information. You will start to understand the risks associated with the portfolio and proactively monitor, escalate and mitigate.
• Cashflow forecasting: You forecast cash within your assigned portfolios and work with the Senior Portfolio Manager to provide a coherent and accurate cashflow forecast across all invested assets.
• Audit support You will respond to Fund-level audit requests providing accurate data, supporting evidence and analysis in a timely manner
• Portfolio Management You will be required to follow processes and conduct analysis relevant to your portfolios including FX, Interest Rate Swaps, Cash Products working with Finance and the Investments team to ensure these deliver fund mandates
• Investor Reporting: You will coordinate and input into the creation of investor reports and outputs that we can be proud of, ensuring that the information provided is accurate and relevant.
• Equity investment modelling: You will proactively monitor your assigned portfolio companies and/or renewable energy assets through creating, maintaining and improving portfolio company and operational asset models. You will deliver accurate and timely quarterly valuations, updating models and undertaking detailed assumptions reviews and checking outputs from peers. You will prepare and present valuation papers to the Valuation Committee for approval and sign off. You will maintain a close relationship with Asset Managers to understand underlying Asset Performance. You will monitor investor returns, track record and other fund KPIs, ensuring accurate data and informative forecasts. You will ensure any new acquisitions you are assigned are onboarded into the Fund Management Team effectively. You will do this on using Power BI/Excel Models

Requirements

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• Experience of creating high quality investor outputs
• Thrive in a fast moving business, able to see solutions where others see problems, passionate about improving processes, models and customer outcomes. Excited, not overwhelmed by a challenge
• Minimum of 3 years working experience
• An understanding of fund management processes for debt and equity across private funds
• Active listener and communicator, able to demonstrate the ability to manage stakeholders
• Previous experience of working in the renewables sector or infrastructure real assets
• Able to collaborate. A team player, flexible in approach and able to support others as necessary
• Excellent financial acumen, CFA qualification considered advantageous
• In-depth knowledge and skillset in valuing assets and/portfolio companies, discounted cash-flow modelling and debt modelling. A modelling test will be part of the recruitment process
• Able to plan ahead but also work under pressure, always delivering to deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written skills, able to distil and seek out insightful analysis

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