ABOUT NTR
Founded in 1978, NTR is an investor in and asset manager of European clean energy transition funds..
NTR has transacted more than €4 billion of sustainable infrastructure investments in wind, solar, bioenergy, water treatment, energy storage and recycling across Europe and North America. Today, NTR is exclusively focused on the clean energy transition. NTR plc is an unlisted Irish public company.
NTR currently manages c.€2 billion of total capital on behalf of a range of institutional investors in the three funds it provides asset management services to. This translates into c.1.5GW of energy transition projects at different stages of the development lifecycle across 66 locations throughout Europe. NTR's fourth clean power transition strategy, managed in conjunction with Legal & General, will be launched in late 2025. Alongside its fund management activities, NTR also invests its own balance sheet directly in the space.
Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the NTR team comprises circa 50 individuals, with team members also located in hubs in the UK, Sweden, Spain and France. The team has deep technical and commercial expertise, with backgrounds in energy utilities, independent power producers, finance, banking and investment.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
Office Location:
Sandyford Business Park, Dublin, Ireland
Hybrid Working
: Office-based days are Tue, Wed and Thurs. Option to work from home Mon and Fri.
ROLE: Corporate Finance & Strategy Manager
Reports to the Managing Director of Strategy and Capital Formation with a dotted reporting line to the CFO of NTR on certain activities.
This is an exciting role for an ambitious person who wishes to be at the centre of delivering new investment strategies for one of Europe's leading clean energy transition managers.
The role supports the business by working alongside and supporting members of the NTR leadership team in:
(a) Driving the strategic and financial design of NTR fund/managed account propositions and fundraising activities; and
(b) the ongoing support and monitoring of the NTR group's strategy and completion of group corporate finance activities.
Product Development, Fundraising and Investor Relations Activities:
* Supporting the development of new fund/product strategies.
* Construction of new, and maintenance of existing, financial models for funds or managed accounts.
* Preparation and review of fund marketing materials and supporting review of fund legal documents to ensure reflective of the proposition(s) being proposed.
* Leading production, update and oversight of relevant and accurate data for investor marketing and preparation for investor due diligence (including the set-up, management, and oversight of the investor data room), including DDQs, track record information, and marketing presentations.
* Ongoing co-ordination of NTR responses to prospective investors' inbound due diligence questions. Liaising with internal personnel, staying current on NTR's investment pipeline and track-record and liaising with external tax and legal advisors as required to provide accurate and consistent responses.
* Running investor sensitivities and scenarios through financial models as required. Providing analysis and scenarios in support of fee negotiations and returns analysis.
NTR Group Corporate Finance Activities:
* Supporting the ideation, assessment, and presentation of future strategy considerations to the Board of Directors of NTR plc. This can include modelling for business planning at both group and vertical level.
* Support assessment of fund-wide activities as appropriate, e.g. fund level debt facilities.
* Collaborating (with NTR Finance) on the NTR group cash financial modelling, including layering new fund propositions (and sensitivities) on top of existing NTR group cash flows to ascertain impact and returns and the annual NTR Group valuation for main shareholder.
* Sensitivity and scenario analysis of NTR group cash financial modelling for NTR board.
* Any other activities required to support the maximisation of NTR's valuation and profitability.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications
* Significant exposure to corporate finance activities essential, including:
* Understanding of key performance metrics and how to model them in the context of private capital real assets (IRRs, TVPI etc)
* Exposure to preparation of fundraising / marketing materials, e.g. prospectuses, management presentations, DDQ and other marketing documents;
* Financial modelling (new model development and updating of existing models) & scenario analysis;
* Inbound due diligence processes;
* Conceptual thinking of the proposition that will attract investor support and slide preparation; and
* Preparation, presentation and communication of outputs to executive management and highly experienced international Board of Directors.
* Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
* Skilled in dealing with third parties, including inbound due diligence leads and analysts on the investor side, and third-party legal firms.
* Ability to work autonomously, manage priorities and multiple workstreams simultaneously.
* Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines with attention to detail.
* Background in professional transaction services and/or corporate finance required (e.g. investment bank or accounting firm). Minimum five years' experience.
* Exposure to regulated entities, such as Alternative Investment Fund Managers, beneficial but not essential.
* Advanced software application skills, in particular Excel, as well as Power Point and Word.