Modeling & Valuations Manager
£Attractive salary + bonus + benefits
Central London - Hybrid role - 3 days in office per week

THE COMPANY
We are pleased to be partnering with a fast-growing, well-funded and institutional-backed infrastructure company operating throughout Europe. They have a strong collaborative, agile and commercial culture. The role is very autonomous and is responsible for managing all modeling, valuations and pricing and certain investment committee processes, as well as quarterly investment tracking, annual valuation and managing the regular update of the maintenance forecast..

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

  • Have strong financial modelling skills, be able to run and amend models as required with confidence.

  • Strong in PowerPoint and Word

  • Confident presenter and communicator

  • Minimum qualification to degree level, professional qualifications such as ACA, ICAS, CIMA, ACT or ACCA desirable

  • Have an accounting/investment background, be well versed in Corporate Finance concepts such as NPV, IRR and be able to read and interpret financial statements

  • Minimum of 6 years' experience

  • Be collaborative- able to establish a strong relationship with internal and external (shareholders, consultants) stakeholders.

  • Commercial acumen

    • Add commercial value to the process of pricing, by helping to find solutions to problems arising in the course of lease/asset procurement negotiation as required by the Senior Leadership Team

    • Identifying areas of risk for a project, and liaising with relevant internal parties to find mitigation measures to be able to obtain board approval.

  • Management - able to train, manage on an ongoing basis, and motivate

  • Problem solving- find ways to optimise returns and/or meet a market price based on an understanding of how the business is financed and how the pricing assumptions can be flexed, always with the company's target investment yields in mind

  • Flexible attitude to ad-hoc/ last minute requests.

THE ROLE
Reporting to the Head of Corporate Finance, you will be responsible for:

  • Running the pricing model for new acquisitions and re-leasing of existing portfolio for the Commercial team and senior management team. Will need to be able to tailor models as required. Will be responsible for the integrity of the outputs.

  • Preparing and presenting investment papers to support the underwriting of new investments

  • Running scenario analysis, conducting variance analysis and reporting results for investment underwriting memorandums to be approved by the management team and the shareholders.

  • Assist with pricing new investment targets as part of the company's strategic framework

  • Managing the relationship with the external advisor which performs the annual asset appraisal, including providing any information on the asset required for the review and ensuring the on-time delivery of the report

  • Delivering on an annual basis, a summary of returns being generated by existing projects post Investment Committee approval, by updating the pricing model for details of actuals, revisions to the project and macro assumptions.

  • Conducting the annual credit review of customers and refreshing the company's credit rating - including alerting on any customers which may be considered a credit risk

  • Manage the updating of interest rate curves for pricing purposes and report movements to the on a monthly basis

  • Manage the provision of Agreed Values to the legal team to be included in all lease contracts

  • Manage the analysis of credit risk of new clients as defined by the Corporate Policies

  • Present weekly updates to shareholders on the status of ongoing projects

  • Being responsible for your assistant, including managing them and their performance, their timely, high quality and accurate outputs and review of their models and investment papers, and pre-determined KPIs for pricing are met and their annual performance reviews.