Platform Development Manager

JERA Nex is a company created by JERA to scale renewable energy for a sustainable future. JERA Nex combines the resilience of JERA, one of the world’s largest electricity producers, with the agility and focus of a dedicated renewables business that can act at the pace required to drive the global energy transition. JERA Nex invests in, currently owns and operates a portfolio of renewable energy assets, with a portfolio over 3GW that includes offshore wind, onshore wind and solar, as well as battery storage. This includes Parkwind, its wholly owned subsidiary. Headquartered in London, and with centres of excellence in Belgium, Japan, Taiwan and the US, our team of more than 300 renewable and energy industry experts combines global knowhow and experience with the local expertise and knowledge necessary to deliver successful projects.

What You Will Be Doing

• To understand the current approach to safety in JERA Nex, to assess the level of safety in potential and acquired platform, to work with JERA Nex safety to develop a gap analysis and prioritize action plans for BoD members to push.
• To understand the current approach to Compliance in JERA Nex, to assess the level of compliance in potential and acquired platform, to work with JERA Nex Compliance Officer to develop a gap analysis and prioritize action plans for BoD members to push.
• To acquire and have deep understanding of DD materials, SPA, side letters, etc of investment and be able to draw upon that knowledge regularly as needed.
• To collect accounting, management reports, audit reports, local filings, relevant financial/debt data from the group companies, such as subsidiaries & associates, periodically like monthly & quarterly.
• To keep a comprehensive record of those data in a certain manner like spreadsheet to foster profound monitoring.
• Maintain clear filing structure of all data pre and post acquisition.
• To make an adequate analysis of those collected data, focusing on the trend, gap & logical examines. Communicate findings, issues, potential issues/material risks to the leadership team.
• To inquire the managers & staff of the group companies which provide those accounting data, to make the analysis more precise.
• To attend the regular meetings of the group companies to gather information enhancing the corporate governance.
• To develop and maintain a cashflow model for the platform and validate the budgets and returns for the platform.
• To read and examine the materials & minutes of board meeting, handbooks and guidelines submitted by the group companies to ensure optimal performance of these companies.
• To prepare for the board meetings or other subcommittees of the group companies by such as preparing the pre-memo and briefing the attending directors.
• To attend the board meetings or other subcommittees of the group companies if it is required or allowed and then prepare the minutes later.
• To identify significant risks or events, such as machine troubles & impairment indications of group companies and propose risks mitigation measures.
• To prepare the report telling the results of analyses & monitoring activities for both monthly and quarterly ends.
• To help the regional leadership report to the head office in a timely manner.
• To support the regional leadership to prepare the annual performance report of the group companies.
• To give a financial or accounting support to the head office or other team of JERA Nex when they do the transactions such as investment or divestment.
• To monitor annual strategy update and business planning of platform.
• To track proposed investments in detail highlighting project details, development timeline, development risk register, DEVEX needed at all stages of development, draft any JERA Nex approval documents with the help of the regional team.
• To maintain rejected investment request project details.

What You Will Have

Accounting (professional experience needed, at least 5-8 years).

Strong understanding of Corporate Finance or Project Finance for energy/infrastructure projects.

High communication skill is necessary.

Teamwork mindset is highly expected.

IT (spreadsheet, editing and presentation reports).

Internal controls & corporate governance.

Professional/educational requirement (CPA/CA, MBA & CIA preferred).

Past working experience/background or strong motivation to work in energy/infrastructure industry.

Frequent business trip can be expected.

What We Offer

• Start-up and entrepreneurial environment in a company that is part of a larger, well-funded firm, that has long-term ambition to contribute to global decarbonization.
• Opportunity to define your workplace. We are starting out and every idea counts!
• A job that is part of making our world a greener place.
• International team that benefits from our different perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
• We are high-performing and ambitious individuals who also enjoy our private lives. We hope you can identify with that.
• We believe in the benefit of flexible working hours and location and appreciate that we see one another in person regularly.
• We are not afraid to admit that we don’t know things but also proactively look to solve problems and work collaboratively.
• We work hard but also want to have fun at the same time, we’re on an exciting journey.

Established in 2015, JERA is an equal joint venture of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. JERA is a Japanese company with significant and global portfolio of international energy assets. It has industry leading expertise scaling the entire fuel and power supply chain, from upstream fuel investments to fuel procurement, trading and transportation, to power generation development, construction and operation. JERA’s mission is to contribute to an internationally competitive supply of power and energy and to invigorate the standard of living, industry and economy around the world.