Job Description
A corporate finance advisory house is looking to recruit a Director (Renewables / Energy) to join its Debt Advisory and Execution Services group, serving financial sponsors, corporates, and developers across the real assets spectrum, including infrastructure, renewable energy, real estate and transportation sectors.
Role Summary
* Client Support: Advising and supporting clients with debt advisory. You will be an ambitious and dynamic finance professional, comfortable with debt structures across real assets, including bank, institutional and private credit structures across senior and junior debt, including project finance and fund finance.
* Execution Supervision & Lead: The role will involve directly managing client relationships in addition to managing lender market engagement to deliver transactions from end-to-end.
* Includes preparation of information memoranda, transaction structuring, financial modelling, management presentations and execution of legal documentation, and taking responsibility for the preparation of information and client communication.
* Business Development: Lead on new idea generation, initiatives and pitches - identifying potential target transactions and clients. Guiding the team in preparation of pitch books, memorandums, management presentations, board materials and other presentation materials for use in strategic client dialogue.
* Relationships: Broaden the lending relationships of the firm, leveraging own network as well as picking up and strengthening existing lending relationships across banks, institutions and private credit.
Requirements
* 8+ years’ experience, with time spent in a corporate lending, risk or debt advisory function.
* Excellent deal execution (must have) and business development / origination skills, with strong relationships and network across mid-market renewable developers and infrastructure sponsors in the UK and Western Europe.
* A solid understanding of technology risk, development milestones, and power price dynamics within the energy and renewables space, and project finance experience with exposure to debt products across the renewables lifecycle, including devex, construction, project and portfolio financing, holdco structures, and fund-level leverage.
* Strong and demonstrable track record of building and managing relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
Essential:
* Strong relationships and network across mid-market renewable developers and infrastructure sponsors in the UK and Western Europe, with the ability to originate new advisory mandates.
Highly desirable:
* Project finance experience and a strong understanding of the debt product universe across the renewables lifecycle, including development expenditure (devex), construction financing, project/portfolio financing, holdco financing and fund-level financing.
Competitive salary and discretionary bonus on offer, depending on performance and experience.
Location: Based in the London office, 3 days per week.
Occasional travel to meet clients and stakeholders will be required.