Company Description
This is an opportunity to join the Octopus Australia team in either our Melbourne or Sydney office. The successful applicant will be able to join the Octopus Investments Australia team on their mission to accelerate Australia’s transition to a future powered by renewable energy.
We are looking for a Portfolio Associate to report to the Assets lead of the Asset Management team at Octopus Australia. This exciting role will sit at the intersection between our Investment, Funds and Asset Management teams.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the assets team with looking after the operational portfolio of assets at Octopus, helping to drive returns for investors and ensuring project value is maximised. Strong commercial acumen and financial modelling skills are essential.

OCTOPUS INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA

Established in 2018, Octopus Australia is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team of over 55 highly skilled people which spans the expertise required to realise and operate a renewable energy and storage portfolio.
With an existing multi-GW portfolio of operating and development assets, including solar, wind and battery storage across the country. We are continuing to grow to create a long-term business that can deliver a firmed energy product to meet the evolving needs of Australia’s energy future.
Job Description

• Developing, maintaining and validating financial models:
• Updating financial models for actual operating results
• Continuous improvement of financial models, including:
• Reducing the risk of error
• Ensuring modelling is aligned with actual project performance
• Ensuring the models can be used quickly and easily to aid decision making
• Ability to restructure and make significant changes to financial models
• Playing a central role in the quarterly asset valuations process, including:
• Refreshing financial models with updates to assumptions on a regular basis
• Working with various Octopus teams and external partners for information to feed into the valuation process
• Assisting with the preparation and presentation of asset and fund valuation reporting to Valuation Committees
• Performing scenario and sensitivity analysis at an asset level to assess impact on asset returns.
• Assisting in liaising with model auditors, answering audit questions and making relevant changes to models, where required
• Assisting with distributions and cashflows for operating assets
• Working closely with the Assets team to drive performance of Octopus’ operating portfolio including:
• Reviewing and analysing operational and financial data for operating portfolio to assist with decision making and to ensure accuracy
• Assessing value creation opportunities across the operating portfolio and building business cases
• Working with the wider Octopus Australia teams, external stakeholders and consultants to drive asset performance
• Assisting with all asset management and investor reporting
• Assisting with loan compliance and lender reporting for Project Finance
• Driving automation in asset management reporting and processes, for example KPI dashboards
  Qualifications
  Ideally, you will have some or all of the following qualifications, skills and experiences: