Investment & Business Case Senior Analyst

Join us, a rapidly growing and expert team leading the development and construction of offshore wind projects around the world. At Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP), we operate in a dynamic and exciting environment, working intelligently, collaboratively, and empowering our people with the skills, experience, and trust to make a difference – on the job and for our renewable energy future.

We are a dynamic, high growth company with a highly motivated, diverse, and skilled workforce driven by making a positive impact on the planet. It is such an exciting time to come onboard, with many opportunities to help create and implement new initiatives from the greenfield space.

The Investment and Business Case Senior Analyst is anchored in the Investments and Business Case team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Copenhagen Offshore Partners is the team behind Vineyard Wind, the nation’s first large-scale offshore wind in construction, and over 5GW+ of projects in three offshore lease areas.

As Business Case & Financial Analyst, you will support the identification and acquisition of new project opportunities, coordinate a cross-functional team to estimate capex/opex and cashflow forecast and manage the valuation process to accurately assign price and risk to offtake bids and seabed acquisitions. You will become an important part of the company and have key responsibilities for enabling growth across US markets. The role is a great opportunity for an experienced candidate with extensive knowledge from the Renewable or Infrastructure industry within valuation, business cases, investment approval processes, and corporate finance.

You will support initiatives including:

• Develop, maintain and operate financial models for the valuation of offshore wind projects.
• Collaborate with colleagues across technical, development and procurement teams to source inputs for the financial model including estimates of capex, devex, opex, energy yield, and revenue.
• Lead financial modelling and valuation analysis of offshore wind projects in a variety of contexts:
  • Bid price optimization for offshore wind offtake RFPs/tenders for existing leases, and seabed tenders for new lease areas
  • Key supplier decisions, including selection of preferred suppliers and negotiation of key terms and conditions
  • Assessment of M&A opportunities
• Support preparation of strategic decision material and financial updates to Senior management and Investment Committees
• Support and facilitate key decisions with comprehensive energy market analysis, regulatory framework monitoring, high-level market strategy for value improvement of projects, including assessment of new offshore wind markets

• Origination, evaluation and execution of contract with advisors and consultants for services such as power price forecasting, tax and accounting, technical DD, etc.

To succeed in this role, you have:
Undergraduate or master degree with an ability to demonstrate quantitative reasoning skills and a strong command of valuation and project finance topics. We are less concerned with your course of study and more concerned with your ability to use numbers and valuation metrics to drive decisions. Experience from a similar position in a large corporate, IPP, private equity or a consultancy and you:

• Are interested in large and complex infrastructure projects
• Have experience from the energy sector - offshore wind industry is preferred.

• Have experience with valuation, business cases, investment processes, and project finance
• Possess outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to use numbers to tell a compelling story about an asset
• Are comfortable with working with Excel and PowerPoint
• Are a self-driven team player with an entrepreneurial mindset and strong ability to navigate an organization and gain buy-in
• Are dedicated and persistent with an eye for details

• Have excellent communication skills and ability to present and communicate complex matters in a concise manner

About COP
Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) is a world leader in development and construction of offshore wind projects with a track record of successfully taking projects through the most difficult phases and delivering per plan. COP is leading project development of a 50+GW portfolio of projects on behalf of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America. COP’s development activities are supported by its headquarters in Denmark and offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, the United States, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand. COP works exclusively for CIP, a leading green infrastructure fund manager, which has raised Euro 20+ billion to date from more than 120 international institutional investors worldwide. COP is a proudly independent company owned by its management. Learn more: www.cop.dk

What we offer
At COP, we offer trust and responsibility from day one, allowing you to work in the complex and exciting world of renewable energy while helping us scale up our young organization. You will contribute to an exciting work environment, joining our diverse team of more than 450 worldwide employees from 30+ different countries. COP offers a competitive salary.

To Apply
We will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis; therefore, early application is encouraged.

If you have any questions concerning this position, please contact COP Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]. We will handle your information with confidentiality and handle all personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice .We look forward to receiving your application.

Please Note:
We unfortunately are not considering staffing agency inquiries or submissions for open opportunities for our team. We appreciate your respect for our current approach and if future opportunities arise where we require external assistance, we will reach out to selected agencies directly.

Lokation: Boston, USA

Application deadline: 31 May 2024