Senior Manager: Financial Close Transactions

About the Company

Since its establishment in 2008, Mulilo has grown into one of the leading Independent Power Producers (IPP) in Southern Africa. Mulilo is majority owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, the world’s leading private equity investor in renewable energy assets, through its New Markets Fund I. Mulilo has concluded numerous PPA's in both the Department of Mineral Energy's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP) and with several large corporate energy users. Mulilo currently operates 450MW of wind and solar PV projects and has a further 500MW of projects under financial close. Having adopted a strategy that aligns with the company's long-term vision, Mulilo has accumulated a pipeline of projects exceeding 25GW, and is now positioned as a key player in the renewable energy sector. 

Mulilo places strong emphasis on its human capital and prides itself in providing a world class working environment for all its employees, thereby placing huge value on career progression and personal growth. 

Mulilo is guided by strong ethical principles and adheres to its environmental, social and governance responsibilities.  

About Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 

Founded in 2012, CIP is the world’s largest dedicated renewable energy fund manager and a global leader in offshore wind. CIP currently manages over 30 billion Euro’s, with a target of having 100 billion Euros under management by 2030. The funds managed by CIP focus on investments in offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, biomass and energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity, storage, advanced bioenergy, and Power-to-X. 

About this role

The primary function of the FC Transaction lead is to lead, co-ordinate and manage the financial close process of assigned projects, with the aim to achieve FC efficiently, and on time, in budget and with the assigned team. The team will comprise of internal Mulilo resources, and external advisors.

The Senior Manager: FC Transactions will report to the Director: FC Transactions. 

Goals and responsibilities 

• Overall Deal Lead of allocated projects
• Responsible for securing Mulilo PPC and Board Approvals
• Owner of Project IRR returns, including ownership of the financial model inputs.
• Responsible for Project Plan and Schedule and team adherence to the  plan
• Engaging stakeholders
• Managing internal team members and external advisors, and the budget
• Management of allocated advisor relationship(s)
• Responsible for proper coordination between different departments, workstreams and team members.
• Responsible for reporting to internal committees i.e weekly updates and bi-weekly Steering Committee meetings.
• Management of communication and relationship with each off taker i.e IPPO etc
• Lead PPA negotiations with offtakers
• Responsible for lender engagement and co-ordination

Required skills and education background. 

• Tertiary or Masters Degree in relevant field (Engineering, Legal, relevant Finance/Quantitative degree) Strong administrative skills. 
• Strong presentation skills
• Proven ability to work within, and lead a team. 
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.

Desirable attributes

The ideal candidate would have a passion for the Renewable Energy sector and personality traits would include a high level of emotional intelligence with human skills, coupled with diligence, determination, resilience, and agility.

Mulilo is an employer of choice and is offering an extremely competitive total remuneration package for this position.

Additional Information 

Able to work overtime according to operational needs.

The position is based at the offices of the company, but travel may be required occasionally.