Associate, Project Finance & Portfolio Management

Job description

Thank you for your interest in joining Alcazar Energy! Each role at our company offers the chance to make a tangible impact on the global shift towards sustainable energy. As you consider applying, reflect on how your unique skills, passion, and vision align with our mission to innovate and energize the world responsibly. Responsibilities: The Associate will own day-to-day borrower-side administration of the firm's project-financed SPVs from financial close through construction and into operations. The work covers the full set of borrower obligations under a typical DFI/commercial lender financing package, including: - Compliance monitoring — tracking and managing conditions subsequent, ongoing reporting obligations and information covenants across the Common Terms Agreement, individual Facility Agreements, Accounts Agreement, hedging documentation and project documents (EPC, BoP, TSA, TOMA, PPA, offtake and grid agreements). The Associate should be comfortable reading the underlying documents and identifying obligations directly, rather than relying on external counsel to flag them. - CP/CS management — building and maintaining the project's CP and CS trackers, gathering and packaging evidence, and driving the satisfaction of conditions across internal teams and external counterparties. - Drawdown and waterfall administration — preparing and submitting utilisation requests, supporting documentation packs, CP/CS evidence, and managing the project accounts waterfall (including cash sweeps, DSRA, MMRA (if applicable) and distribution mechanics). - DSCR and lock-up monitoring — calculating forward- and backward-looking DSCRs, LLCRs and other lender-defined ratios, tracking headroom to distribution lock-up triggers and providing early warning on emerging covenant risk. - Debt service and hedging administration — coordinating interest rate fixings, EURIBOR/SOFR resets, interest and principal payments, swap settlements, and reconciling against the agreed repayment schedules. - Lender reporting and engagement — preparing periodic operational and financial reports for lenders and the intercreditor agent, managing the day-to-day lender relationship at working level, supporting annual budgets and operating plans, and managing lender consents, waivers, amendments and information requests. - Asset management interface — working closely with technical, commercial and ESG colleagues to track project KPIs (availability, generation, opex, capex variance) against the base case and lender requirements, and translating operational performance into financing implications. - Model maintenance and analysis — keeping in-life project models current with actuals and updated assumptions, producing forecasts for board, lender and investor reporting, and running the DSCR, sensitivity and scenario analysis that supports refinancings, amendments and lender engagement. - Model review and governance — reviewing and challenging lender, model-auditor and counterparty model outputs for material errors and assumption integrity, and maintaining version control and a clear audit trail across the model suite. - External advisor coordination — managing inputs to and outputs from the LTA, Independent Engineer, insurance adviser, model auditor, lender legal counsel and accounts bank, and supporting any post-close advisory deliverables. - Amendments and waivers — running selective refinancings, repricings, top-ups and amendment-and-restatement processes from the sponsor side as portfolio assets mature, including drafting first-cut waiver and consent requests for lender consideration. Relationship Management: The Associate reports to the Associate Partner/Partner within the PF/Investment team and works in close collaboration with the wider investment, asset management, finance and ESG teams. The role offers direct exposure to senior management, lenders and external advisors, and a clear development path into more senior portfolio management and structuring roles within the platform. Qualifications and Skills: - 3–6 years of project finance experience, with at least 2–3 years at a developer, IPP, infrastructure fund or sponsor. - Demonstrable experience administering live project-financed SPVs end-to-end — drawdowns, lender reporting, waivers, consents, CP/CS, debt service, account waterfalls. - Advanced Excel and strong hands-on project finance modelling skills — able to maintain, interrogate and stress-test sponsor-side models (DSCR sculpting, debt sizing, sensitivity engines, three-way financial statements, tax modelling and circular references) and stand behind the outputs, rather than necessarily having built them from scratch. - Working knowledge of project finance documentation — CTAs, facility agreements, accounts agreements, intercreditor and security sharing arrangements, hedging documentation, and the principal project documents — at the level required to identify obligations and risk directly rather than via counsel. - Direct experience of DFI lending practice (IFC, EBRD and similar), including E&S reporting, is a strong advantage (not a must). - Numerate and accounting-literate, with the ability to translate technical financial analysis into clear written and verbal communication for non-specialist stakeholders. - Comfortable managing multiple live workstreams in parallel under time pressure around drawdowns, reporting deadlines and lender approvals. - A practical, hands-on disposition. The role calls for someone who is happy to be the person doing the work rather than reviewing or commissioning it from advisors. We appreciate your time in considering a career with Alcazar Energy. By joining our team, you’re choosing to stand at the forefront of the renewable energy industry, contributing to projects that prioritize integrity, quality, and sustainability. As you share our commitment to making a difference, we look forward to potentially welcoming you aboard.