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Octopus Energy Generation (OEGEN) is a leader in sourcing, investing in, and managing utility-scale renewable energy assets globally, with a portfolio exceeding £8 billion. The company is committed to delivering responsible investment activity and accelerating the transition to net zero.
As a Portfolio Associate, you will join the OEGEN Funds Team, reporting to the Senior Portfolio Manager. This role supports the full fund-management cycle across listed funds, semi-liquid strategies, and private funds focused on renewable infrastructure and liquid investments.
Key responsibilities include:
**Portfolio Management:** Support day-to-day management of assigned portfolios, monitoring investments, asset performance, fund KPIs, distributions, commitments, liquidity, and investor returns. Collaborate with Asset Management, Investment, Finance, and other teams to address issues and ensure follow-through.
**Valuations and Financial Modelling:** Support monthly, quarterly, and annual valuation processes. Update and review DCF, investment, and fund models; analyze assumptions; prepare valuation bridges and sensitivities; and challenge outputs from internal teams, external valuers, and underlying managers. Prepare clear analysis for internal and external stakeholders.
**Cash Flow, Debt, and Hedging:** Support cash-flow forecasting and analysis across portfolios, including distributions, capital calls, liquidity, recycling, and commitments. Monitor debt structures, refinancing activity, covenant management, hedging, and other financial arrangements. Work closely with Finance and Investment teams.
**Allocation and Underlying Fund Analysis:** Support portfolio construction and asset allocation analysis. Gather and assess information from underlying funds and managers. Draw together performance and portfolio information from semi-liquid and liquid investments into useful fund-level analysis and reporting.
**Investor Reporting:** Lead or coordinate inputs into high-quality investor reports, factsheets, customer board materials, investor meetings, and due diligence responses. Explain asset and portfolio performance, allocation, valuation movements, distributions, risks, and outlook clearly and accurately.
**Private Fund NAV and Reporting:** Work with the Finance team on monthly NAV processes for underlying private funds. Check underlying information, reconcile movements, maintain supporting evidence, oversee asset performance reporting, review valuation outputs, and identify questions or inconsistencies for escalation.
**Risk and Governance:** Support the Senior Portfolio Manager in ensuring correct fund governance and accurate information for Boards, customer boards, auditors, and other governance forums. Monitor risks including underperformance, valuation movements, liquidity, debt covenants, mandate constraints, and material data gaps. Escalate issues promptly.
**Process Improvement:** Maintain accurate fund-level information for NAV, AUM, returns, distributions, commitments, and track record. Identify practical improvements to reporting, controls, data collection, and automation. Ensure processes are documented, deadlines managed, and outputs consistent and auditable.
The role suits someone with a strong finance, accounting, or investment background who is analytical, organized, and comfortable with both recurring processes and judgment-led portfolio analysis. It offers broad fund-management experience across varied OEGEN portfolios.
**Requirements:**
- At least three years of relevant experience in fund management, fund accounting, financial reporting, audit, transaction services, infrastructure, renewable energy, valuations, investment analysis, or comparable analytical role
- Strong finance or accounting background; CFA or accounting qualification advantageous
- Good understanding of fund-management processes, including NAV, valuations, AUM, investor reporting, cash-flow forecasting, distributions, audit, and governance
- Strong Excel and financial-modelling skills, including ability to review models, analyze assumptions, reconcile outputs, and perform scenario and sensitivity analysis
- Experience analyzing investment, fund, or asset performance and creating high-quality investor or management information
- Experience with renewable energy, infrastructure, real assets, private markets, listed investment vehicles, or multi-asset portfolios advantageous
