Financial Modeller

Job description

Commitment

Full-time Core Mission: As a core member of our UK & European business development team, you will lead energy storage project development to build and assure operating and financial models, together with delivering projects involving the funding/financing of infrastructure development. This role will work closely with colleagues in other disciplines and geographies in the investment/financing activities globally. Leverage your technical skills and expertise in market dynamics, policies, and financial modeling to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and ensure ROI.

With a strong pipeline of high-profile project opportunities, we are delighted to be growing our team to support a range of exciting international opportunities to help the company to achieve successful outcomes as a BESS innovator globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead financial workstreams within projects, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently and full integration with inputs from project teams
• Monitor and analyze UK, European and APAC region electricity market structures, pricing mechanisms, ancillary service demands, and price trends.
• Specify, develop and assure a range of business and financial models, underpinning advice from third party consultants.
• Lead and the development of funding strategies and financial cases for international BESS projects
• Support the review and assurance of a range of operating and financial models for BESS projects either for standalone or co-located BESS projects
• Develop, review, and optimize financial models (LCOE, NPV, IRR) for projects, including sensitivity analysis and risk assessment.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between project teams and internal departments.
• Conduct internal reviews of a range of modelling work undertaken by others as part of CATL quality management procedures
• Support the business to identify opportunities and lead the production of proposals for M&A opportunities and engage in business development in the UK, EU and APAC region.
• Support the development of team members
• Transfer knowledge through formal training, seminars and workshops to promote staff development Requirements:

Experience

• Minimum 5 years in energy/power sectors, covering technical and financial modeling.

Skills

• Mastery of financial modeling and investment analysis (ability to build/complex project models).
• Experience of developing robust, user-friendly, best-practice and flexible operating and financial forecasting models, including sourcing inputs and providing senior management with an analysis of key outputs for standalone and co-located BESS projects
• Proven track record in UK & EU energy storage project development, M&A, or asset rotation.
• Experience of developing financial cases and funding strategies, ideally in the renewable sector
• Experience of project management (including project budgets), workstream management and taking key roles in M&A proposal development
• Experience gained in a consulting environment, multi-disciplinary renewable practice or in a business with a clear role in supporting commercial/financial evaluations, although candidates from other backgrounds will be considered
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with cross team collaboration and play a role in the development of the business
• Good team player, able to work collaboratively with colleagues in other disciplines to provide the best solution for the client

Communication

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, coupled with the confidence to explain technical details clearly to non-technical audiences.

Education

• Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related fields.

Language

• Fluent in English (written/spoken); additional European languages are a plus.

Mobility

• Ability to travel frequently between China and UK&Europe.

Additional skills

• Experience in undertaking model assurance
• Experience in renewable industries
• An appreciation of the policy, regulatory and commercial aspects of the renewable sector
• Professional Accounting or Finance qualification
• Experience with data analysis and visualisation software o VBA for Microsoft Excel