Senior Investment Analyst, Glasgow, £40K-£60K DOE + bonus + pension + other benefits

As Senior Investment Analyst, you will support the financial and economic assessment of energy infrastructure projects and the ongoing review of the existing asset portfolio performance. You will both invest in new projects and report on the performance of existing projects in the energy sector.

You will build and maintain financial models that bring together assumptions covering capital expenditure, operating costs, asset renewal, tariffs, connection volumes, demand, inflation, cash flows and investment returns.

We are looking for candidates with energy sector or other infrastructure experience gained in various areas of the energy sector, renewable energy, utilities or from consultancy where you are working with clients in this space.

Responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining long-range financial and investment models: forecasting revenues, costs and cash flows.
• Modelling regulated tariff and pricing scenarios, running scenario and sensitivity analysis and supporting project-specific asset valuations.
• Analysing performance across installed assets, orderbook and pipeline and you will compare actual asset performance with original investment assumptions.
• Contributing to investment cases, papers and presentations, working across commercial, finance, technical and operational colleagues.
• The ultimate objective is to support activities that lead to sensible, sustainable and profitable deployment of company capital reserves.

This is a busy and demanding role and we are looking for candidates with prior experience in relevant sectors.

To be considered for this role we are looking for people with:

• Experience gained in electricity, renewable energy, infrastructure investment, consulting firms supporting these sectors or professional services firms.
• Knowledge of project finance, corporate finance, investment management, economic analysis or other relevant experience using financial modelling skills.
• You will be comfortable with valuations, assumptions testing, long-range forecasting and taking a longer-term view of ROI.
• Strong financial, economic or investment-modelling ability is a must have, and confidence in using Excel for detailed analytical work.
• You may be CFA qualified or studying towards CFA, a qualified or part-qualified accountant, or an economist with relevant modelling experience. Equivalent practical experience will be fully considered.

For a confidential discussion, contact Paul Buchan at Eden Scott or submit your CV for consideration.

Eden Scott offers the services of an employment agency for the placement of permanent staff and acts as an employer for the delivery of temporary and interim solutions.