Commercial Lead

at  JERA Nex Limited

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.

• Evaluates safety, environmental, social risks and requirements with regards to lending/financing, maintains this part of the risk register, and works to eliminate the risk and/or implement adequate safety protections to ensure the safe return of all people and partners involved in this part of the business.
• Coordinates with other regions and maintains up to date assumptions books for project financial models for different equipment configurations, as well as acceptable internal land partner contractual risk allocation matrix for key financial partners including JBIC.
• Understands relevant local/regional/global valuations in detail for historic and recent M&A, portfolio, and project transactions.
• Coordinates with Origination and Development to maintain an ongoing market-based project entry and exit valuation matrix throughout development / risk mitigation process and project lifecycle.
• Co-responsible for M&A origination, DD, and contractual negotiations.
• Maintains lender profiles, priorities, risk positions matrix.
• Coordinates with JERA Nex HQ and JERA Asia on lender and insurance relationships and subsequent management.
• Accountable for building and maintaining portfolio and project financial models including all local and domestic taxes and fees.
• Accountable for insurance sourcing and subsequent DD of insurability of portfolios, projects, and or sites.
• Accountable for asset transfer and acquisition financial DD.
• Accountable for managing lender due diligence.
• Accountable for lender reporting requirements documentation and execution. In the event of a potential reporting issue, responsible for rapid escalation to regional head.
• Accountable for Share Holder Agreement negotiation and execution.