Clean Energy Infrastructure - Credit Investment Director

Financial toolkit & quantitative skills

• Demonstrate high degree of competency in financial modelling and appraisal
• Apply advanced modelling techniques to deliver a range of options in formulating plans and obtaining funding
• Have detailed knowledge and experience of financial markets and show competence in establishing optimal financial structures
Internal document drafting
• Able to draft and defend IC papers, DC papers, memos, independently or with limited supervision
Project documentation review
• Competently and confidently manage drafting, negotiation, and agreement of full suite of project documents
Market knowledge & network
• Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant infrastructure industry participants such as project developers, strategic partners and other funders to originate deal leads that translate into investments of the company's Funds
• Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant infrastructure industry experts investors, financial instructions and fiduciaries to identify industry trends, discover potential capital sources and promote the organization's brand
• Understand external environment, customer' perspectives, and fundamentals of their business
• Actively seek means of progressing growth, using market and political knowledge, contacts, and network to identify and promote business opportunities
• Analyse industry, market and infrastructure-specific research as well as competitive fund analysis to stay well-informed and ahead of trends and current issues impacting the infrastructure management business
Negotiation
• Highly competent in negotiation, manage multiple and sometimes conflicting issues for best outcome for the Fund
Strategic thinking
• Proactively identify threats and issues and take positive actions
• Make strategic decisions based on data, set strategic priorities and involve Partners in aligning strategic priorities
Customer / client focus
• Proactively anticipate needs and look for ways to add value beyond customers' immediate needs and act on them
• Expertise in managing varied stakeholder perspectives and objectives
• Contribute to fundraising and investor relations efforts including: setting and executing capital raising strategy, annual investor conference, advisory committee meetings, Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ) and Request for Proposal (RFP) review, fulfilling investor requests for information, investor on-site meetings, and ongoing investor relations management
  
  Significant relevant experience in financing infrastructure / energy assets working at either infrastructure debt funds or international banks
Competencies Required
• Origination capabilities in financings to infrastructure / energy in Europe
• Negotiate and execute senior Project finance to infrastructure / energy projects
• Negotiate and execute junior finance to infrastructure / energy projects
• Financial modelling
• Strong skills in understanding legal structures and documentation, in the financing of assets and companies
• Fluency in English + another European language, Asset/Investment Modeling, Clean Energy Acumen, Collaboration, Detail-Oriented, Due Diligence, Financial Analysis, Infrastructure Investments, Negotiation, Prioritizes Effectively, Problem Solving, Stakeholder Engagement
  
  Nuveen is the investment management arm of TIAA. It is one of the largest global asset managers with specialist knowledge across a wide array of asset classes, including fixed income, equities and alternatives. Nuveen is driven not only by the independent investment processes across the firm, but also the insights, risk management, analytics and other tools and resources a truly world-class platform provides. As a global asset manager, our mission is to work in partnership with our clients to create outcome-focused solutions to help them secure their financial future. For more information about the firm please visit our website at www.Nuveen.com, Nuveen Clean Energy Infrastructure is a global leader in investing in the energy transition. We have:
• Established franchise as fund manager in credit / debt investments in renewable energy and broad energy transition
• Established platform: Energy transition credit funds
• 2 funds already raised and invested, circa EUR 500m
• Arranged, structured and closed transactions for > EUR 3.5bln
• Innovation is at the core
• Among first asset backed security transaction ever done in Europe in the renewable energy sector
• First Synthetic Risk Transfer ever done in Europe in the energy transition project finance space
• High yield credit investments in energy transition: very few competitors, thanks to use of innovative financial tools, Nuveen is committed to providing equal opportunity across all employment practices and we believe our employees have a right to a diverse and inclusive workplace., Nuveen is the investment management arm of TIAA. It is one of the largest global asset managers with specialist knowledge across a wide array of asset classes, including fixed income, listed equities and alternatives. Nuveen is driven not only by the independent investment processes across the firm, but also the insights, risk management, analytics and other tools and resources a truly world-class platform provides. As a global asset manager, our mission is to work in partnership with our clients to create outcome-focused solutions to help them secure their financial future. For more information about the firm please visit our website at www.nuveen.com